L.A. Noire from Rockstar

[OSCORP]

Its a Rockstar game, its guaranteed at least a 9.

 

[Ash Housewares]

A rockstar published game. Team Bondi is made up of people who developed The Getaway on ps2. Doesn't inspire confidence.

 

[Karma]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WRIRCd_0VM

 

[OSCORP]

Says may 20. Thought it was the 17th?

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

only Rockstar could have people lining around the block for a game with only snippets of gameplay shown.

The Pixar of the gaming world, very few bad games!

 

[wofford29]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WRIRCd_0VM

I'm not going to lie. The graphics in this video seem to have taken a dip. The faces and hair especially. The animation is still there but from the first trailer to this one the quality appears to have nose dived. The gameplay better make up for it.

 

[MarfMaster]

A rockstar published game. Team Bondi is made up of people who developed The Getaway on ps2. Doesn't inspire confidence.

I doubt Rockstar would attach their name to anything that's less than stellar. Not with the reputation they've worked so hard to get shiny.

 

[Karma]

https://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2011/may/13/la-noire-game-review

 

[Jen]

What a great review. I'm going to have to pick this up.

 

[Ash Housewares]

Excellent review. Very informative. How long before it's taken down? Oh wait, it already has been.

 

[THX-182]

Excellent review. Very informative. How long before it's taken down? Oh wait, it already has been.

So what did they say?

 

[Karma]

it got 5/5

 

[Ash Housewares]

So what did they say?

Never got to see it.

 

[CelticWarrior]

just seen a commercial for this one...looks pretty fun

 

[VALVOLINER]

LA.NOIRE First 15 minutes gameplay video

IMPORTANT: PLEASE do'nt copy or post this direct youtube link in any forum: (If you do it, Youtube will remove the link...again )


Just click on the black & white LA NOIRE logo (At the end of this linked thread)..

https://zonaforo.meristation.com/foros/viewtopic.php?t=1233802&start=840


You can get a pretty good idea of ​​the mechanics and gameplay

 

[MarfMaster]

LA.NOIRE First 15 minutes gameplay video

IMPORTANT: PLEASE do'nt copy or post this direct youtube link in any forum: (If you do it, Youtube will remove the link...again )


Just click on the black & white LA NOIRE logo (At the end of this linked thread)..

https://zonaforo.meristation.com/foros/viewtopic.php?t=1233802&start=840


You can get a pretty good idea of ​​the mechanics and gameplay

Must.... not.....watch....

Oh who am I kidding.

 

[plasmid303]

I was thinking about pre-ordering the game sometime this week, but looking at how they split up the bonus missions and stuff, it kinda pisses me off.

Really? REALLY?

 

[Mr. EcKo]

The Video has Sheeeeeeeety Quality

Or its still processing through Youtube

 

[Karma]

some of what the guardian review said:

Ever since it first worked out how to assemble pixels so that they resembled something more recognisable than aliens, the games industry has dreamed of creating one thing above all else – a game that is indistinguishable from a film, except that you can control the lead character. With LA Noire, it just might, finally, have found the embodiment of that particular holy grail.

From start to finish, LA Noire feels like a film – LA Confidential, in fact, along with any similarly hard-boiled example of film noir adapted from stories by the likes of Chandler and Hammett. Set in a gloriously convincing depiction of Los Angeles in 1947 (which is much more attractive than today's LA), it casts you as Cole Phelps, returning war hero turned cop.
Instantly, you plunge deeply and satisfyingly into his working life, solving a vast number of cases as he becomes the LAPD's poster-boy, first in Homicide, then in Vice. And your immersion in Phelps' affairs ratchets up even further when he is hung out to dry by his dubious superiors.
There have been plenty of games with cinematic pretensions in the past, so what is it that enables LA Noire to make a transcendental leap? Inevitably, technology is involved: the new MotionScan system used to capture actors' performances simply produces more convincing facial animation than we have ever seen in a game.

Couple that with the obsessive attention to detail for which Rockstar's existing games such as Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption are famed, and the end result rings true to a greater extent than anything that has gone before. The familiar need to suspend disbelief has been all but eliminated.

Real-Life Gameplay

LA Noire's gameplay capitalises cleverly on this breakthrough technology. Essentially, it sees you playing through Phelps's working life, doing what you imagine a real-life LAPD detective would have done in 1947. Thus, you have to drive to crime scenes, root around for clues and examine bodies, then follow the resulting leads.

It's when you question suspects and witnesses that things get interesting. You have to analyse facial responses and bodily tics like a poker-player seeking tells, then choose one of three tones to adopt for each question. These are marked Truth, Doubt and Lying, but Sympathetic, Dubious and Accusatory would perhaps be more rigorous.

If you accuse a suspect of lying, you must back that up by producing evidence (all accessed, along with along with your records of each case and details of suspects from your standard cop's notebook). If you don't adopt the correct tone, the character you're quizzing will, at the very least, take longer to give you the crucial information you seek.

Beautiful Pacing

The game's pacing and narrative arc impress as much as its believability. The bog-standard detective work, fun though it is, is punctuated judiciously by action sequences including car chases, pursuing suspects on foot, climbing around inaccessible areas, puzzle-solving and, of course, shoot-outs.

Between cases, you either get a flashback to Phelps' war experiences in Japan or a glimpse into his off-duty life; both those elements end up feeding back into the overarching storyline. The oeuvres of Shelley and even anarchist author Piotr Kropotkin are fed into the mix. Newspapers that you find when hunting for clues trigger yet another backstory (this time involving ongoing LA skullduggery), which yet again intersects with the main storyline in the game's later stages.

A fascinating snapshot of an America struggling to readjust to everyday life in the aftermath of the second world war emerges, reinforced by the attitudes of your fellow cops (many of whom would be ejected from the Sweeney for political incorrectness, although Phelps's keen sense of morality keeps them sufficiently in check to appease modern moral arbiters seeking outrage).

Since you're at the centre of proceedings, participating in and dictating the action, the overall effect is powerfully immersive. Cleverly, Rockstar has ensured that LA Noire is a thoroughly inclusive game, too. The control system is sufficiently simplified that even the most determined non-gamers shouldn't find it intimidating.

Indeed, the more hardcore gamers may carp that it isn't sufficiently action-packed or precise. The one criticism that could be levelled at the game is that the shooting system has been over-simplified so that it feels clunky compared to thelikes of Grand Theft Auto.

Depth and meatiness

LA Noire largely does away with the free-roaming that enhanced the appeal of Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption. As you drive around, you do occasionally hear of street crimes to which you can respond, and there are hidden vehicles and LA landmarks that completists can collect and visit, but the overwhelming focus is on the main story.

So it's a good job that, bucking the modern trend for short single-player games, LA Noire is satisfyingly meaty. Rockstar reckons it's roughly equivalent in length to two seasons of a TV series, a claim that feels roughly accurate.

Perhaps, then, it would be more accurate to argue that LA Noire more closely approximates a television show than a film – it beats any film hands down in terms of the sheer amount of entertainment on offer, which of course is an advantage games have always had over films.

It has all the period charm of Boardwalk Empire or Mad Men – indeed, the role of Phelps is played by Mad Men's Aaron Staton and other digitised Mad Men actors crop up sporadically – and it seasons the gameplay with a healthy dash of CSI.

In the past, games with such overwhelming ambitions have floundered on odd, usually peripheral, aspects that jarred – such as unrealistic animation (and especially facial animation), clunky dialogue, poor virtual camerawork or facile characterisation. LA Noire is the first game to lack any such element which naggingly reminds you that you're playing a video game, rather than strolling through a film or TV series.

That's why it marks a breakthrough for games as a whole – and we can't wait to see what Rockstar does with LA Noire's technology in its other blockbuster franchises.

 

[MarfMaster]

I was thinking about pre-ordering the game sometime this week, but looking at how they split up the bonus missions and stuff, it kinda pisses me off.
Really? REALLY?

Yea, really annoying. I know they'll release everything as DLC eventually though, so everyone will have a "complete" game.