A rare trip into the heart and soul of historical LA, with crime,corruption and Noire, Rockstar delivers on a great game
Graphics are great, the engine has been overhauled and facial and street level details are top notch. Shadow casting is top notch and even the shadow of your hat as your looking at your case notbook displays a sense of surrounding.
Sound in the game is top notch, music scores fit the period, although i found some of the songs alittle short, i loved the mood that they chose. My complaint with the sound department is the repetitive nature of third person conversations. people say the same thing over and over again, and i cought people talking about how famous i was at the start of the game when i should have been someone what unknown. I miss the detail of grand theft auto 4 where you never felt like people said the same thing. other then that weapons and cards sound great, and the police radio does a good job.
games play is mostly positive, i found it a little disappointing that with all the clues you get you cant somehow integrate them into proving your case. i also want to happy with the fact that if you screwed up you still won the case, there should be repercussions to mistakes. taking criminology int he real world, no interrogation is the same for each person and you should be able to pick other evidence to prove your case and not a one answer correct answer system.
Cases are great and allow you to feel like your really a detective, and radio missions break up the repetitive nature of what you are doing, although i did have a complaint with the fact that you get dispatched to a radio call, that may be all away across town for no reason.
they also should have had a option to disable suspects that are shooting at you, i shoot a suspect in the leg and he ends up in a bag...didnt like that, although the shots fired into the air was something.
all and all the game shows how Rockstar can risk making something new that original and hoping that a new game will be on the way with the lessons they learned from this game.