L.A. Noire = Game of the Gen candidate.

Alongside Portal 2, Mass Effect 2, and yada yada yada.

• Great graphics
• Strong story
• Large character cast
• Superb voice acting
• Peerless facial animation
• Varied gamplay (driving, shooting, running)
• Totally new gameplay mechanics
• Totally original concept
• Nails the 1950's post-war atmosphere and its issues excellently
• Has Rockstar's solid open world engine (but takes the more serious nature of the game with respect)
• Small-role characters have more personality and humanity in them than most large-role characters in other games.

Yeah, and an incredibly stupid ending. I actually haven't played it, and while it still looks like one of the more unique pick-ups of last gen, there's a lot of Rockstar associated gameplay that would automatically take it away from best of anything.

**** no. I thought it had a pretty interesting story for a video game though.

Definitely an awesome game, and one of my favs from last gen... But not sure about being no.1.

The most interesting game from Rockstar's already excellent franchises.

I really enjoyed L.A. Noire as the first entry in what I had hoped would be a franchise. There are so many ways a sequel could have improved. My only real point of contention with it aside from the somewhat lackluster pacing was the fact that case performance made no difference whatsoever. I liked doing my best on cases for that sense of personal satisfaction and some would argue that the best kind of gaming is one where the act of doing well is it's own reward. I, however, would disagree in in the context of the way poor performance on investigations was handled here. It almost wasn't a game at points. Still immensely enjoyable though. Sad knowing that a sequel is unlikely.

It fails as an adventure game. Relies too heavily on gimmicks.

First of All.... theres no such thing..... 2ndly..... even if there was it damn sure wouldn't be LA. Noire.

bad gameplay

Go home TC, you're drunk.

lol no

la noire was garbage

it was interesting, but no.

How old are you? How do you know it "Nails the 1950's post-war atmosphere and issues excellently"?

I had it on 360. Stopped playing on disc 2 when I was investigating another murder for a woman.

All investigations were murders of women.

So who done it?

Husband

Boyfriend

Cab driver

Homeless guy

Co-Worker

Rinse and repeat over and over.

I'm actually interested, although slightly if the rest of the game just features the same crimes.

Fun game for a while but far too repetitive for my liking.

Rockstar usually do a great job mixing up missions on their games.

An interesting game at first, but ultimately boring with typical rockstar gameplay. Also I remember some plot holes.

If you want an actual fun open world game, get prototype, crackdown red faction guerrilla etc. etc.

@wiiboxstation:

Each disk represents a differen't department...... theres actually 5 in Totall.

So yeah on Disk 3 you won't be on the Homocide desk anymore.......

Not even close. the open world was boring and the story fell apart after the black dahlia case.

Not even in the top 10 or 20 of last gen

Really enjoyed it. Love the era, the story, the style. But game of the gen? Not for me. It felt like the first in what could have been a great series. If they improved on some things along the way it might have been one of my favourite series.

1. Open world: Either it has a use or it doesn't. Felt unnecessary here. I wouldn't personally take it away (because I love open world), just make it far more purposeful. Lots more collectibles/side quests etc.

2. It's hard to get the investigation side right but I feel that this could have been tightened up. Essentially you knew if you'd done something wrong straight away, and the search part, it just about told you when you'd done all you could. Point?

3. Action scenes felt largely unnecessary at times.

The latest Sherlock Holmes game improves on the investigation side for me, it was still a tad on the easy side but that's besides the point. It had puzzles that actually felt necessary, intuition, a branching investigation method. Love me some Sherlock Holmes and I love that game.

If they ever did revisit the franchise I'd take a fictional city over a real one, just for ease of making the open world more interesting and the world events less tied to real life. I'd take a look at how the other rockstar games manage to open world without adding a GTA style anarchy to the mix.

Not my favourite game of last gen, but certainly up there. Think I've played through it about 3 times now, really love it. Ending sucks though

It would be a decent TV series.

As a game it's kinda shit.

Wow, that's so varied. Gameplay was the weak spot. And the huge world with absolutely nothing to do in it. Was also much too long and sometimes I had to force myself to keep going because it was always the same. The story saved it a little though. I don't regret playing it but I wouldn't play it again.

Yeeeaaaaah. No.

For the most part I enjoyed it. My main issue with the game had to do with its sandbox style nature and there not being a whole lot to do throughout the world. Other than that though the game had a great story and world design. I'm not sure the motion capture really did much for me, it didn't enhance investigation dialog and I've heard it was largely responsible for splitting the game on multiple discs on the Xbox 360, probably also responsible for its development delay, another sore note on the development side given Rockstar had to fly out staff to finish the game for Team Bondi, hurting their working relationship and spelling the death of the studio, which seemingly went under but I heard is rumored to be working on Whore of the Orient still.

For better or for worse... well, definitely for the worse, Team Bondi made their dent in gaming, we now have SEASON PASSES thanks to them.

I thought it was boring and repetitive. Was enjoying it first but later it became boring. A lot of point and click adventure games did a better job at making you feel like a detective while keeping things interesting throughout the game.

LOL

ok

no

It was a good game, it was one of the best idea's of last gen, we've not had any detective game for years until it came out, the only problem with it, was, it didn't fulfill it's potential, the idea was great the execution wasn't, but for the best unique game of the gen that would be it, shame it didn't delve a little deeper i do wish and hope for a sequel, it had great idea's

I wouldn't put it in the top 20 honestly

@nethernova:

I played it 7 times. :)

I have to say after playing it for about 4 hours I grew to hate that game with a passion. I thought the gameplay was downright awful.

@blue_hazy_basic:

Four hours is too long..... you gotta play it in one hour bursts. But its too late for that..... other games need you.

Overrated as hell

Your choices didn't influence the outcome of the game one bit...so they were essentially meaningless.

The only thing impressive about LA Noire was the facial animations.

That's really it

@Zelda187:

And the Note Book...... that note book waa awesome.