LA Noire has been long in the depths of development hell. Announced back in 2005 as a PS3 Exclusive, under the publishing wings of Sony, it was picked up by Rockstar and spread around to 360 and recently PC. Usually when a game stooges around for that long in development, it can mean one of two things. Either it ends up being incredibly polished, due to the amount of time it's been in the making, or it ends up a complete disjointed mess as it jumps around from studio to studio...*cough, Duke Nukem Forever, cough*. But thankfully, LA Noire manages to avoid the latter, with compelling cases, a large city to play with and memorable interrogations. You play the ...  Read the complete review

Bought to you by Rockstar Games, you will have heard of them if you have ever played a Grand Theft Auto game, the only way this is similar is in themes and game style. Rather than perpetrating the crimes, you're solving them; building yourself from a flat foot beat copper, to a well known detective. Something that makes this game a cut above anything you may have played in recent years is that the characters in the game are animated realistically. They are based on real actors, every line of the face, every mole, blemish, and wrinkle represented in near perfect graphics. There are a large number of well known actors who modelled for the game. The facial ...  Read the complete review

== L.A. NOIRE == L.A. Noire is a 2011 dark crime video game for the Xbox 360. The game is published by Rockstar who are most famous for their GTA series of games. The game is also developed by Team Bondi. L.A. Noire is a little similar to the GTA games with the style of free roaming around the city but this game does feature a lot more variety especially in the missions. L.A. Noire on the Xbox 360 is 3 discs which can be a little annoying because of the need to swap the discs after finishing each one where as on the PS3 its only 1 disc. The downside of not having the ability of Blu-ray for Xbox. L.A. Noire is of course set in Los Angeles but way back in 1947 and to ...  Read the complete review

L.A. Noire (Xbox360, Playstation 3 & PC) Tested and reviewed based on the Xbox360 version. Review by Ben Nacca (Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/BenNacca ) XBL GT: Darkeyes2k7 PSN ID: Darkeyes2k11 When it comes to open world realism in gaming, I think Rockstar are at the forefront of people's minds. With experience in that genre with the Grand Theft Auto series and Red Dead series, not to mention the success in those series, it is pretty clear that they know their stuff. So what happens when you put Team Bondi with them on a project? L.A. Noire is born. Set in 1947, shortly after the ...  Read the complete review

Back in 2001, Rockstar Games stood at the fore of one of the most groundbreaking changes in the games industry with their impressive GTA 3. With LA Noire, Rockstar teamed up with the young Team Bondi (headed by the main developer of the brilliant PS2 Getaway series) to push the boundaries of gaming once again. For once, Rockstar offers us the chance to side with the law, in a quest for redemption and justice which spans an impressive 21 hours of gameplay. You assume the role of Detective Cole Phelps, a World War Two veteran who fought against the Japanese and who post-war is plying his trade as an up-and-coming detective of the LAPD. Your task is basically the ...  Read the complete review