L.A. Noire

L.A. Noire

L.A. Noire is a third person action, crime video game which was developed by Team Bondi and was published by RockStar Games. With it's very realistic features and brilliant voice and face acting, it is widely known as the greatest detective game of all time.

L.A. Noire was released in Europe on 20th May 2011 on Xbox 360 and Play station 3, and was released on PC on the 11th November 2011. It was developed and created by Team Bondi and was then published by the company which created the GTA franchise... RockStar studios. On its release it received pretty decent reviews, and not the reviews that many people were hoping for when it was hyped up a lot to its release date. IGN gave the game a 8.5 out of 10 and they said that L.A. Noire may not reach the emotional heights of Heavy Rain but it's something everyone should try out. Other websites like Game Spy gave the game a 4 and a half star rating out of 5, Official Play station magazine gave the game a 9/10 and many more websites and magazines gave pretty good reviews for the game.

The game is based in 1947, in LA if you didn't already guess with the game name, you are a officer called Cole Phelps who works for the Wilshire Division 7 police station, during the game you get many cases and you solve these by running interrogations. This is the biggest plus of the game, as when you are conducting an interrogation the acting is phenomenal and by far the best piece of motion capture I have ever seen, you can tell when the person is lying and you have to choose three different options, they are to either believe them, doubt them or if you think they are lying then you have to have proof that they are or else you will fail that particular question. The goal of the game is solve the cases which are handed to you when you are rising throughout the ranks of each department in the station.

The things that I like most about the game is the motion capture and the interrogation scenes, as when you are conducting an interrogation you get the full emotion of the character and the awesome acting that the actor is giving you to explore and uncover. Compared to other games when most of the words don't even match their mouths, this game trumps them all and is by far the most perfect all round animations and emotions. The only problem is that the player might feel the game is too boring after a couple of cases as each case may repeat the same process over and over again.

I give this game a 8/10