Dont expect a grand theft auto, or Red dead redemption this game is more linear but still is great at his own genre
L.A. Noir begins with Policeman Cole Phelps; phelps is a serious, responsible and intuitive character hes always looking to improve on the things he do however you will found that the reality as you start to play is very different from what you might think the police is corrupt, the homicides and drug deals are everywhere and most detective doesnt even care.
Phelps return from the Japan - Usa War that left a trauma inside him and his comrades, he have a family however you cant interact with them, the story develops with cases and thats when it comes the base gameplay of the game.
Phelps its assigned to certain kind of cases at the beggining he´s in charge of little crimes like robbery and other petty things, however as you ascend as a detective it comes the cases you must resolve them, you start with traffic cases, most runovers throught the city.
In the game you must go to a location and this time you cant pick the mission like in gta or Red dead redemption it is automatically given, when you arrive you can question witnesses, doctor or other detectives, search for clues and evidence, when you are near evidence or a clue your controller will start to vibrate or the music will change and thats when cole phelps is given the option with the sticker what to choose from the scene, cases are much more linear than any previous mission on a gta game, you cannot shoot wherever you want or hit any citizen, however really clever cases are in the game, when you advance in the game each case is more difficult, and though is not needed that you will find all the evidence it will be needed numerous of times for the truth of a witness or suspect.
Every time you question someone it will appear 4 options, truth, lie, doubt or intuition, intuition will eliminate 1 possible wrong answer or eliminate all evidence or clues not according of the answer making more easily to choose the correct question to do, intuition is filled in a meter and when the meter is full you gain 1 intuition point.
Phelps always go with a partner according on which hierarchy he is, traffic, homicide, drug or fire department, most of these partners are really disgusting and never are really likeable, you can drive everywhere around the city however theres nothing really interesting to do, appart of attending police call and found secret cars you cant interact with people outside of the cases which adds linearity even if you can explore the full city. One clear thing is that rockstar added more climbing in this game you can climb a lot of buildings with pipelines and ladders.
The city is beautiful bigger than ever and presents real location of Los angeles near 1930 the cases are really intriguing from serials killers to complots every case is an intense piece of clever story, future cases of traffic departments can have multiple endings or different accused person depending on what questions and evidence you may find, adding replayability in this sector of the game, the facial animation is a blast and you will like to see how the characters look sad nervous, angry etc.
THE GOOD
- Inmense city with real location
-Excellent cases with multiples endings and beliaveble persons and enemies
-Excellent character development
-Great cars and driving
THE BAD
-Crappy ending
-Too much city too less to do