[Game] L.A. Noire

[DraKon2k]

trailer is here

So this will be Rockstars next big game. Graphically it's kinda disappointing tbh. but facial animations seem superb. And since I'm a big fan of Boardwalk Empire I can't wait for the next mafia-esque game, eventhough I might not get to play it within the next few years since I don't own a PS3 myself.

 

[Amerikaner]

Ken Cosgrove! Ditto to everything u said Drakon.

 

[PNV]

I'm really glad this is still on track, I love this setting and I love film noir. With Mafia 2 not being as great as I expected in the atmosphere department, this should be great.

 

[Xendance]

Faggots still can't produce for PC.

 

[DraKon2k]

Yeah it's sad really, I'd so buy Red Dead Redemption for PC...

 

[Amerikaner]

Yeah it's sad really, I'd so buy Red Dead Redemption for PC...

Yeah not to go off topic but where the hell is RDR for PC? I expected it to be released this holiday and there isn't even an announcement. Not cool.

 

[Ralfst3r]

Very nice facial animations. Pretty convincing, not so robotic like in other games. Not sure what the gameplay will be like though. Doesn't really show from the trailer.

 

[Bluehawk]

There's some serious uncanny valley action going on there. I wonder how the action will be handled, if at all. Will it be an over the shoulder kind of deal like Mafia?

 

[Amerikaner]

New Dev Diary Looks even better than the first vid.

 

[[-project.rattus-]]

Was that Denethor in the first few seconds?

Certainly looks like John Noble:

 

[DraKon2k]

What the Hell! I mean the overall graphics don't look that good imo, but the facial animations! Never seen something looking that real

 

[PNV]

What the Hell! I mean the overall graphics don't look that good imo, but the facial animations! Never seen something looking that real

Yeah, the characters look great, but the environment looks average. I think it's because of the jaggies and pop-in. If this were on a PC, it would probably look amazing with full anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering.

 

[Amerikaner]

Yeah it may even look a little worse than GTA and RDR. The facial animations steal 99% of the focus of the visuals though so no biggie.

 

[Nimsky]

Looks great. Would be nice if you could play the entire game in black & white to get the full noir feel.

 

[PNV]

Looks great. Would be nice if you could play the entire game in black & white to get the full noir feel.

Since it's a console game, I think most TVs have a setting to decrease saturation all the way down. Then increase the contrast a little and it'll probably look like a black and white. I did that for Mafia with my monitor but for some reason it started to hurt my eyes after fifteen minutes. I don't know why it's different than watching an old movie.

 

[Dcode]

Looks really interesting!

What sort of game is this then? Same gameplay as GTA or does it work like an interactive story much like Fahrenheit?

 

[[-project.rattus-]]

As far as I know, we don't know. I gather though it'll be like GTA with less shooting and more finding clues and interrogating people.

 

[Amerikaner]

As far as I know, we don't know. I gather though it'll be like GTA with less shooting and more finding clues and interrogating people.

That's pretty much exactly what it is according to the information released so far.

 

[Nicholas]

So it will be kind of like Mafia 2 but good?

 

[PNV]

So it will be kind of like Mafia 2 but good?

Well, the only thing it will have in common is the time setting. But seeing that L.A. Noire is supposedly re-creating Los Angeles, we should see authentic locations and cars as compared to the fictional setting of Mafia 2. The character you play as will be a cop investigating a murder (or murders) instead of a gangster who murdered hundreds of people during the course of Mafia 2. And hopefully L.A. Noire will show certain people that the 1930s and 1940s weren't all about clich