A mysterious crime appears in Los Angeles...
L.A. Noire
Rockstar Games are no amateurs to the gaming world by any means. With their highly successful commercial exploits of the award winning, but yet controversial, Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead series. This video game developer hasn’t shied away from the world with the introduction of L.A. Noire – a film noire-esque crime game based in the late 1940s of Los Angeles. The game continues the trademark open world environment of many of the other series created by Rockstar Games, but brings in new perspectives and technology in using the stylistic effects of an actual film noire movie and brings to life the aspects of crime during that time.
You control Detective Cole Phelps, a revolutionary cop, which moves through the ranks of the police force in chase of crime and the meaning behind why criminals act in particular ways. Phelps is a World War II veteran, still haunted by his past of killing with the events of L.A Noire happening afterwards. The game focuses heavily on interrogating and asking the right questions based on evidence found in a particular area. Your scores for each particular mission depend on how much evidence you find, and how you choose to answer your clients. It comes down to figuring out if they are lying or telling the truth using your knowledge and visual clues to determine results.
However, the action doesn’t die down by any means with car chases, high action cinematic shoot-outs and intensive hand-to-hand combat appearing randomly throughout the game. Rockstar Games keeps the open world element alive but more focussed on the storyline away from the destruction clearly viable in the Grand Theft Auto series. The best way to approach the gameplay is through following the storyline, as there isn’t much to do away from it apart from finding the collectible items or simply exploring the extremely large Los Angeles area. Killing random people is not something accepted by the gameplay by any means due to you being part of the Police, and weaponry is restricted compared to the other series by Rockstar Games.
Many fans of the games had complained about the lack of content upon the completion of the main storyline and the lack of additional features available. Freezing occurs randomly and textures fail to appear at random intervals leading to disruptive and frustrating gameplay at times. People have complained about the repetitive nature of the game in missions, and the lack of actions. However, this is backed up with clinically dashing and accurate portrayals of the Los Angeles area inducing fantastic graphics with true detective and crime work. It brings the atmosphere of a mysterious killer in the air, and allows the mainstream world to understand how crimes were solved back in the 1940s and 1950s. A very new perspective on games that stood out amongst all others in 2011.
L.A. Noire is a compelling and exciting game with a moving and attractive storyline coupled with graphics and a fantastic engine to solving crimes. Using evidence to help in investigations brings a new perspective to games overall, with many fans wishing for a sequel in the upcoming months ahead. This is a recommended game for those a fan of the crime and investigation, and even the open world view that the Rockstar Games company has trademarked over the years.
Some gameplay from L.A Noire
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