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L.A. Noire Walkthrough

Kurtis Seid
By Kurtis Seid, Game Guides Editor

Crime doesn't pay. Our L.A. Noire Walkthrough will show you how to solve crimes, catch liars, and provide tips for cleaning up the streets.

LA Noire Walkthrough

PlayStation 3 Trophies

Trophy Name How To Earn Reward
A Cop On Every Corner Complete a single street crime case. Bronze
Asphalt Jungle Chase down and tackle a fleeing suspect on foot as an LAPD Detective. Bronze
Auto Collector Drive 40 different vehicles. Bronze
Auto Enthusiast Drive 5 different vehicles. Bronze
Auto Fanatic Drive every vehicle in the city. Silver
Dead Men Are Heavier Shoot and kill a total of 100 bad guys. Bronze
Golden Boy Clear a case finding every clue as an LAPD Detective or Investigator. Bronze
Hollywoodland Find and inspect all gold film reels. Silver
Johnny On The Spot Respond to 20 street crime cases. Silver
Keep A Lid On Complete a brawl without losing your hat as an LAPD Detective or Investigator. Bronze
Lead Foot Keep the needle above 80mph for more than ten seconds while driving. Bronze
Magpie Find and inspect 95% of all clues. Gold
Miles On The Clock Drive more than 194.7 miles. Bronze
Not So Hasty Stop a fleeing suspect with a warning shot as an LAPD Detective. Bronze
On For The File Find and inspect a clue as an LAPD Detective or Investigator. Silver
Public Menace Rack up $47,000 in penalties during a single story case. Bronze
Rosecoe And Friends Kill at least one bad guy with every gun. Gold
Shamus To The Stars Complete all story cases with a five star rating. Bronze
Star Map Discover all landmark locations around the city. Silver
The Brass Achieve maximum rank. Silver
The City of The Angels Reach 100% Game Complete. Silver
The Hunch Use four intuition points in a single interview session, correctly branching each question. Bronze
The Long Arm Of The Law Complete all street crime cases. Gold
The Moose Follow Candy Edwards without using cover or incognito, except when starting or picking up the tail. Bronze
The Naked City of the Angeles Reach 100% Game Complete. Gold
The Plot Thickens Find and solve an inspection puzzle. Bronze
The Shadow Tail a suspect without being spotted, in a single case. Bronze
The Straight Dope Use evidence to prove a lie as an LAPD Detective or Investigator. Bronze
The Third Degree Correctly branch every question in every interview in a single story case. Silver
The Up And Up Complete a story case with a five star rating. Silver
Traffic Stop Disable a suspect vehicle with help from your partner. Bronze
Wooden Overcoats Bring down a total of 30 bad guys with head shots. Silver
Huckster At Elysian Fields, outwit Leland Monroe when discussing his developments or advertising campaign. Bronze
Moth To A Flame Complete all cases on the Arson desk. Gold
No Rest For The Wicked Complete all cases on the Vice desk. Bronze
Paved With Good Intentions Complete all cases on the Traffic desk. Bronze
Police Academy Complete all cases on the Patrol desk. Bronze
Round Heels At the Bamba Club, get Dick McColl to give up the license plate of Celine Henry's male companion. Bronze
Stab-Rite At Ray's Cafe, find the bloodstained knife on your first sweep of the crime scene. Bronze
The Fighting Sixth At the Bus Shooting, talk Felix Alvarro into giving up the Marines involved in the Coolridge heist. Bronze
The Simple Art of Murder Complete all cases on the Homicide desk. Bronze
Platinum Trophy Collect all other Trophies to unlock. Platinum

Kurtis Seid
By Kurtis Seid, Game Guides Editor

Kurtis Seid is a sadomasochist for games. He’s clocked over 200 days in a Final Fantasy entry but isn’t sure if he’s actually a fan of the series. His ideal game would somehow involve the harshest elements of King’s Quest, Team Fortress, River City Ransom, Ogre Battle, and Dark Souls.

95 comments
Lausanna
Lausanna

This walkthrough is freakin awful. It's more like a synopsis of the story. Doesn't help me solve cases at all.

RockZillaX
RockZillaX

Buzzboy, right on man.. A a bit of effort on a hifi version of gameFAQs would have been good linked to universal sign-in to Gamespot and gameFAQs.. Pffft as bad as raptr, good idea just sloppy coding and implementation of assests.. Who wants another app that runs on the taskbar signed in sucking up your RAM ...

BuzzBoy
BuzzBoy

Yeah, I've gotta say the quality of Gamespot's game guides has really gone downhill over the years. But that's really more of an Industry-wide problem. No one expects to pay for them anymore, and for the general walkthrough type info that you really need a .txt file written by a fellow gamer works just fine. My only question is this: Why did CNET spend the money to buy GameFAQs if they never intended to assimilate it into Gamespot? I mean, its silly to direct users to a different site just for cheat codes and walkthroughs when they've been owned by the same company for over EIGHT YEARS now. I doubt most of the people who come here now even remember when the two sites were separate. tl;dr The GameFAQs Walkthroughs and Cheats should all be a part of Gamespot

BuzzBoy
BuzzBoy

pac1987 "umm what's trolling?" ohhhh you, nice try 0/10

superdude100
superdude100

cant find the film reels this is annoying

superdude100
superdude100

quite helpful if you have already played the game but want to get 100% in the missions you have played

twyz
twyz

This film reel location guide is a joke! Look at the location for The Narrow Margin. A name of a street would be nice!

plightstar
plightstar

This isn't a game guide, it just tells you what happens. Was expecting how to get 100% in each section.

mikees1
mikees1

xedgorex Yes it does require a lot of attention and a degree of intelligence. Not that I'm saying you lack both lol

pac1987
pac1987

umm what's trolling?

xedgorex
xedgorex

Ill write it again ok sorry.. Why would anyone need a guide to this game??? I only played like mmm not even half of it...I didnt like it srry.

tariq393
tariq393

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vivalatour
vivalatour

shot through the heart i'll play this game but phelps gave love a bad name bad name phelps gave love a bad name , I wanted to see phelps fall in the tar pits and get all black and sticky and then go back to his rusian blues bar tramp so all this and the driving in consideration I will stick by my score of a solid 9 . remember Gamespot is a Good place to be , you'll always find criminals here ! take care guys ......

GearSparks
GearSparks

This isn't a Walkthrough, it's a spoiler guide

Noble91
Noble91

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Noble91
Noble91

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NCrow15

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zigger21
zigger21

Zigger21 you are trolling, why does everyone take this sh^& so seriously. Gamer 4 voiced his opinion and you jump him. Let'm speak, if you dont like it done read it.

Gamer_4_Fun
Gamer_4_Fun

@johnybutler11 ok now tell me butler bro what exactly did I say that sounded trollish to you? Even if I mentioned cold hard facts its considered trollish these days?

soapman72
soapman72

I like this game but wished you could get a interveiw wrong so it would be misleading

Gamer_4_Fun
Gamer_4_Fun

I dont know why you need guide, you can play the game without shooting a weapon by skipping it and driving sequence and you can't even fail an interview and restart the game

thorughfire
thorughfire

@jdt532 Go to google and type in something like LA Noire Traffick Desk guide and it should be in the top links. I know there is 1 site that did an entire guide telling you what to choose during interigations.

thorughfire
thorughfire

@kenthuss There is the pistol, shotgun, and tommy gun which you can get through out the game. The last weapon is the Flame Thrower, which you get in the final mission. After you eliminate the guys in the sewers, You will come across a hallway with the stairs to the right at the end of it and at the top is a door, Go through the door and the Flame Thrower will be there on the right. Once you go down the stairs and go through the rising water, Climb the ladder and go to the left and head down the stairs to kill the guy shooting at you and there you go.

kenthuss
kenthuss

can anybody help me with " KILL A BAD GUY WITH EVERY GUN " . IF YOU CAN GUIDE ME SEND ME AN EMAIL

jdt532
jdt532

Where are the answers to interviews and interrogations? You know weather the people are telling the truth or lying are if you doubt them and if they are lying what proof do you use to back up the accusation... Without that this guide isn't very useful.

teck157713
teck157713

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swimbearuk
swimbearuk

This is fairly useless as a guide to the game. It is little more than an overview of the story and a list of achievements/locations. There are better guides out there including the correct responses in interviews and film locations with pictures.

mw2hardcore
mw2hardcore

Couldn't you exactly tell us wich of Eli/Hugo/... 's statements are true,doubtful or a lie? this is a GUIDE ,right?if you could add it,it will be very helpful

punksterdaddy
punksterdaddy

@twztid13 YES thank you I am aware that all the information is out there in web land... Two things though, I don't have access to the internet 24/7 and I wasn't wanting to find out the answers without playing the game myself! I was playing it with trial and error methods, all other methods would give me the answers without playing the game properly! Now I have finished it, that maybe the way to do it but I found this way more immersive for me.

MrSusan101
MrSusan101

Wow did you make this in 5 minutes? its just a series of locations not a guide

Laiska_pummi
Laiska_pummi

@gandalf_storm You're supposed to throw the child molester into prison. And yes, you're supposed to send the wrong guy... in every Homicide case.

twztid13
twztid13

@punksterdaddy you know you can go to www.gamefaqs.com and look all that stuff up without having to do all that work on your own, right?

gandalf_storm
gandalf_storm

i sent moller down and got a 1 star rating wtf ? - and moaning the notes about his daughter being a orphan, was I supposed to send the wrong guy down for this ?

punksterdaddy
punksterdaddy

@jonnybutler11 Smart, it isn't... Tedious, it most certainly is... That's no problem, I just thought I would share what I have been doing while playing the game. Just to see if that would be any help to you, I knew it was going to be a long shot because there has been a few times I just wanted to play through without going back and re-doing the interviews again but now I am glad that I just kept with it... even though it is really tedious! Hey, thanks for your offer of help, I may just take you up on it sometime? I am like you, with the FAQs idea but the nearest I have came to is by answering Qs on here at gamespot. The problem with that though is that most people have answered before I have even read them myself! lol Peace Out

jonnybutler11
jonnybutler11

@punksterdaddy lol thanks :P that's actually real thoughtfull of you... your method is smart, too bad it's a bit tedious. I'll be sure to try it out within the next few days if the guide doesn't get updated. till then I'll just work on my bioshock 2 and rdr platinums. ps if you ever need some help with anything I'd be just as glad to help. I've thought of writing FAQs in the past and have never gotten around to it but if you want any help I'd be glad to give you a hand

punksterdaddy
punksterdaddy

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punksterdaddy

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punksterdaddy
punksterdaddy

@jonnybutler11 Okay so you have beaten the game and are now after all the trophies? I have been writing down all the answers as I go in order to achieve the best possible mark for each case solved. I presume that you haven't done that? Let me know how or if I can help in any way and I will get back to you with some answers. This is what I have done up until now. Every interview conducted (after the 3rd or 4th) I started writing down the person you are questioning, the case name and the correct answers given. When Cole asks a question, then you have 3 choices as you know? Take down the correct line of questioning = True, Doubt or Lie... and make sure you write down in numerical order given in your notebook... I am meaning... Always ask the top question (in your notebook) and write down in that order T,D or L. If you choose the wrong answer during questioning, then you can switch it off and reload back to the start of that scene but unfortunately if at a home or somewhere then you will need to do a quick search again of the home you are in first. This is what I started doing and so far most of my cases have all been 5 star rated, the others that weren't was due to my useless driving skills (or lack of). Hope this is of some help to you? If not then let me know? I'll be happy to help.

punksterdaddy
punksterdaddy

@DeadMan1290 no it is on 3 disks. I don't find it to be any problem though.

Tgd11
Tgd11

I think the access to desks is where you select Cases in the main menu where Resume/new etc is, it will prompt you to choose which case file you want, then u can choose which case and replay it for a better star rating or free roam for the reels and the street crime cases and finish any of them which you didn't get the first time you were going through

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