Honestly, I think that mystery games have fallen out of fashion within the recent millennia. It seems that a lot of people don't have the patience for these sorts of games and require something a bit… Read more
L.A. Noire is a really interesting game. A detective story with elements of interrogation, search for clues, and shooting, it does not quite deliver in any of these aspects. Although the story is inte… Read more
Story La Noire is as a grand homage to the Noire genre with a well written story that feels right at home with films like LA Confidential. Unfortunately, the excellent narrative is straddled with game… Read more
LA Noire is an open world detective game with its own unique feature that makes it stand out from the rest. You play as Cole Phelps, a detective in 1947's Los Angeles. You start as a lowly beat cop an… Read more
I have never been a huge fan of Rockstar games. I love open world games, but the Rockstar ones always had funky controls and pretty pedantic story lines going on with them. I decided to give LA Noire… Read more
The late 1940’s are such a fascinating period of modern history. The Second World War was over and most of the soldiers who survived the horrors of the conflict had returned home to their families, bu… Read more
No loading screens between islands. Euphoria physics. Real-time weather effects and random wildlife. Accurate bullet impact and recoil. Facial mapping technology. These are the features that are pushe… Read more
You don’t get a lot of games set in the 1950’s these days. Not that you ever really had a lot of them, the post WW2 era of gangsters and jazz has been left mostly unexplored by developers. LA Noire ta… Read more
On the scene of an arson case For those tired of the FPSs, RPGs, RTSs and other acronymic genres typical of modern video games, last year’s L.A. Noire from now-defunct Australian developer Team Bondi… Read more
I think I enjoyed L.A. Noire. Well, at least, I know it’s an important game: it’s important because the technology ( finally) captures decent facial emotion and because Rockstar breaks the silent-prot… Read more
Hatched from hardboiled detective stories and plopped into 1940's Los Angeles, LA Noire presents us with the life of opportunistic coward Cole Phelps as he effortlessly glides through the quagmire tha… Read more
I think I have discovered something about myself. I am a fan of the 50’s era. After playing Bioshock, which blew my mind with atmosphere and environment, I had an idea. Now that I have played L.A. Noi… Read more
Where to start on a review of a game that I scored 10 ? Is it the perfect game and will you expect nothing but praise from this review ? Well, rest assured, there is plenty that is wrong or not at its… Read more
Definitely not a game for everyone as I've read many disqualifying it for not being "GTA or RDR in 1940s L.A." or for being like a point and click adventure (as if those were bad) when it totally isn'… Read more
I like games which are interactive novels or movies. L.A. Noire neatly meets this criteria and brilliantly recreates a colourful period of L.A.'s history. I have never seen a game populated by believa… Read more
If you are thinking Rockstar's L.A. Noire is going to be anything like their previous titles ( Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption ), you're going to be greatly disappointed. If anything, L.A. Noire… Read more
I can't tell you how much I anticipated this game. For months I would watch trailers and look at the newest screenshots, eagerly awaiting the day this would come out and own my life. As soon as I star… Read more
L.A. Noire is an adventure game developed by Team Bondi. Though published by Rockstar, L.A. Noire is a far cry from Grand Theft Auto or Red Dead, instead being a successor to the point and click adven… Read more
I'm always the last one to be told about these murder-things It’s rare in the videogame industry to see an idea so radical it requires new technology to be created from scratch. It’s even rarer to see… Read more
One of rockstars highly anticipated games ever. L.A Noire is a story following a young man named Cole Phelps on His journey throughout the corrupted streets of + L.A but also uncovering the truth abou… Read more
With all the detective shows on TV I have seen I thought I would be a good detective, boy was I wrong . LA Noire showed me that I am the worst at it. You play as Cole Phelps a war vet that starts out… Read more
It's rare that a game is designed around a new technology in the way LA Noire was. A few years into the game's development, which actually dates back to 2004, Team Bondi began researching more meticul… Read more
As I continue to work my way through reviewing the substantial pile of games I’ve played this year, this week I find myself encountering another Rockstar Games offering: L.A. Noire . In this interacti… Read more
Rockstar, who has become the most consistently amazing game developer out there, brought out the much-troubled L.A Noire at last. And, yet again, they make a game radically different than their usual… Read more
God, hype can be fatal. Sixty dollars, I spent on this game, or an entire day's weeping in a bathroom stall at the Law firm where I do paralegal work. It is simply unnecessary that L.A. Noire be so mi… Read more
I came into L.A. Noire not knowing quite what to expect. Based on reviews of the game, it seemed like an attempt at the best of what Rockstar offers in the story department with less of the annoying g… Read more
L.A. Noire is an adventure game developed by Team Bondi. Though published by Rockstar, L.A. Noire is a far cry from Grand Theft Auto or Red Dead, instead being a successor to the point and click adven… Read more
L.A. Noire is an adventure game developed by Team Bondi. Though published by Rockstar, L.A. Noire is a far cry from Grand Theft Auto or Red Dead, instead being a successor to the point and click adven… Read more
The news media would certainly agree that there have been plenty of open world representations of the criminal lifestyle in video games; Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption are some shining examp… Read more
LA Noire is a genre breaking game. Yes it has an open world and 3rd person shooter mechanics but unlike many of Rockstar's other games this is nothing like Grand Theft Auto. The game surrounds you in… Read more
YEARS of broken promises, false starts and almost no solid facts about what L.A. Noire actually was gave the impression that this was a title doomed to fall into the pits of development hell. Thankful… Read more
L.A. Noire’s teaser trailers would have you believe it is Grand Theft Auto: 1947, and for those who buy this game expecting an open world full of hookers, dick jokes, and gratuitous nudity, there will… Read more
L.A. Noire has an unique and immersive atmosphere. Though the game's pace is not what most gamers are used to, the care devoted to the architecture, costume and music certainly drives players into the… Read more
LA Noire is from RockStar and Team Bondi. It puts you into the shoes of a cop of the rise named Cole Phelps. You'll get the chance to solve case for multiple different departments within the LAPD. You… Read more
LA Noire is a great game experience. Using new motion capture techniques Rockstar have put together a fun and unique way of solving cases. The shooting element is fairly weak but that is not the core… Read more
Open world games themed around crime are not a new concept, but rarely do games with this in mind take the time to delve into the nitty gritty of police work, often devolving from one shoot-out to the… Read more
LA Noire is a game developed by Team Bondi and published by Rockstar. Team Bondi had been working on LA Noire for awhile before Rockstar came around to publish it. It was originally slated to be a Pla… Read more
If there is one thing I've done that I'm very proud of so far this year, it was the decision to complete LA Noire. I'm incredibly glad I made this worthwhile purchase and that I took my time with it.… Read more
L.A. Noire is a strange game. It offers an incredibly guided experience that is shockingly different than the open world approach Rockstar has built its legacy on. By sacrificing flexibility, L.A. Noi… Read more
If you are looking for GTA in the 1940s, go get Mafia 2. LA Noire has almost nothing to do with its GTA cousin. It is an open world, but you won't be running around blowing stuff up with a RPG anytime… Read more
L.A.Noire hits all the right notes for me and managed to sink it's fangs in pretty quick. I loved the setting and the character designs (there's just something about a man in a nice sharp suit). I lov… Read more
I was surprised to see Rockstar doing LA Noire. While it is their style to do gritty openworld games, I never thought it would turn out quite like this. I'll admit, I had sever doubts when I picked it… Read more
Make no mistake; LA Noire is an adventure game, through and through. Even though you're running around the classic open-world environments Rockstar is known for, participating in car chases and gun fi… Read more
Before LA Noire was released, I was extremely skeptical. Good facial animation does not a game make, and prior to the game’s release, the good ol’ marketing team never showed much beyond that. But, my… Read more
LA Noire is a game that is set in Los Angeles right after the end of world war 2 and you follow in the footsteps of Cole Phelps as he works his way up the ranks of the LAPD. This is the basic premise… Read more
A game that will set the benchmark, probably short lived, for facial animation and actors in games. The story was a typical Rockstar tragedy with some cheap laughs thrown in. Once again though R* make… Read more
L.A. Noire is ostensibly a game. But it's not. Yes, it contains games. Some where you move around an environment manipulating objects. Some where you virtually interrogate various characters. Some whe… Read more
I had high hopes for L.A. Noire. Everything about the game seemed to promise a genre-mixing blend of quick burst action sequences intertwined with methodically paced detective work. The balance and pa… Read more
It’s taken me a really long time to put my thoughts into a cogent review for LA Noire. So before I get to the review I thought that you would all indulge me in revealing some inside baseball (or crick… Read more
L.A. Noire, the ambitious Noir game created by Team Bondi of Australia, is something of a confusing case (see what I did there?). It took a five year development process and a new facial scanning syst… Read more
(Ahoy mateys! Thar be spoilers ahead!) If you're looking for someone to verbally fellate the game, you can find plenty of that elsewhere... I am not a Rockstar (R*) devotee, so I do not have a sycopha… Read more
Contrary to the "Grand Theft Noir" vibe that it gives, L.A. Noire is more of a modern take on old school slow and methodical adventure games than a GTA open world action game. Using cutting edge techn… Read more
There are few good things to say about LA Noire, but what little there is actually means very much. LA Noire is, as you probably know, leader in the field of facial motion capturing. They've managed t… Read more
If there's any game that's come out in the first half of the year that had a big question mark on it, it was LA Noire. Aside from Duke Nukem Forever which is more about the quality of the game given i… Read more
It's rare for an open-world game with the Rockstar logo on it to put zero emphasis on murderous rampages, but that is exactly the case in L.A. Noire. Rather than focusing on a disturbed individual who… Read more
There's a lot to be said for a strong single player narrative. As a person that will rarely ever delve into a game's multi player component, I can appreciate when the time and effort has been put into… Read more
L.A. Noire was a game not on my radar at all until around March of this year, I didn’t really know what it was about but when I did, I was interested. Nobody has really done the play as a cop thing, w… Read more
This game's gonna be compared to RDR a whole heck of a lot and I just don't think that's a fair assessment. RDR is the culmination of years of refinement to the GTA formula that resulted in what can a… Read more
The case that makes ya... and the case that breaks ya...Rockstar Games doesn't miss. When it comes to creating games based around characters and the worlds they inhabit, no developer does it better. A… Read more
L.A. Noire isn't your typical Rockstar game; it definitely isn't GTA in the 40's. You can't even aim your gun unless the story calls for it, you get penalized for running into civilians, and driving r… Read more
First and foremost is the facial capture technology they used to record all the characters in the game. This of course makes the game stand out head and shoulders above other current games out there.… Read more
Note: The gameplay videos may contain spoilers, so watch at your own risk! It is pretty easy to judge mature rated video games especially in today's society. They are judged by the content they have f… Read more
"L.A. Noire" is not nearly as perfect or as polished as Rockstar's previous venture, "Red Dead Redemption". The level of perfect seen in that game isn't quite shown in "L.A. Noire", however none of th… Read more
L.A. Noire is the latest release from Rockstar Games and it represents a dramatic shift in game play styles from Red Dead Redemption and GTA IV, the two Rockstar games released prior. Team Bondi are t… Read more
L.A. Noire is Team Bondi and Rockstar Games’ love letter to the film noir genre, complete with a a lovingly recreated post-WWII Los Angeles. In contrast to the general open-world games created by Rock… Read more
Deja Vu has ruined every single detective game that has ever been made. Nothing could live up to the legend Theodore "Ace" Harding and his world of intrigue and deception. Everyone kept telling me tha… Read more
A game years in the making, L.A. Noire features an engaging adventure taking place in 1947 Los Angeles where player control Cole Phelps through his rise in the LAPD. Team Bondi & Rockstar games ha… Read more
I've heard many different opinions on LA Noire...even the oh so creative use of LA BORE-OIRE. Personally, though, I'd have to say its my favorite of the current generation Rockstar Games. Sure, I like… Read more
L.A. Noire is the latest game in what appears to be a yearly tradition of releasing spin offs of GTA style games published by Rockstar. Unlike Grand Theft Auto 4 and Red Dead Redemption, L.A. Noire is… Read more
LA Noire is more concerned with showing you everything it has to offer than demanding any critical thinking from its players. If you become engrossed in the story and just want to see unfold, this pro… Read more
If Portal 2 hadn’t been released already, I’d be ready to call LA Noire the best game of the year so far. It’s a remarkable game that both the casual and the hardcore can enjoy, but it is important to… Read more
this game is completely overrated. Its boring to play, the graphics are good but you cant go where you want to, its really linear and traps you doing what they want you do. Cant believe this is gettin… Read more
I don't know anything about Noir as a genre or Police Procedural for that matter, but LA Noire has a gripping atmosphere and that the police work depicted in the game is more about clue finding, suspe… Read more
To sum it up, L.A Noire was well worth my money. It can be best summed up as an "open world detective simulator", but it is much more. i went into this game with high expectations, i have never played… Read more
Do you ever get the feeling that something was created specifically for you? That's what L.A. Noire makes me feel. See, I love the era of between the 1920s and 1940s. The cars, the women, the simplici… Read more
LA Noire is a project that I've been interested in for some time and I applaud Team Bondi for their ambitious attempt at creating a deep and unique adventure experience. However, even with the great f… Read more
When someone tells you Rockstar Games is working on something new, assumptions are made, and in the past, have been mostly correct. Rockstar’s craftsmanship has flourished from their first encounter w… Read more
Essentially this is a very well done game, it deserves a lot of credit for its polish. But at the same time does that translate to fun? For some people yes and others not at all. I fall into the camp… Read more
L.A Noire is a hard game to classify, from some minor observation it could’ve easily been misinterpreted as GTA in the 1940’s with impressive facial tech, but if you look at anything past the obvious… Read more
L.A. Noire has been called many things such as GTA:1947 but the thing I haven't heard which seems more appropriate now is "Major contender to Game of the Year 2011/past ten years". L.A. Noire keeps th… Read more
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