L.A. Noire Review

I have been an adventure game addict ever since I picked up my first copy of King’s Quest. You may be asking yourself, what does a 2011 Rockstar game have to do with adventure gaming? Thankfully, more than I thought. Watch my surprise as I cover gameplay, sound, graphics and overall experience of this 1940′s based detective game.

Extended Version:

NOTE: Watch the shorter version here before the extended!

My Not-So-Wordy Overview of LA Noire

Pros:

• Hired professional on camera actors to play parts with amazing facial recognition
• Look and Feel
  • Episodic cases
  • Period cars and clothing, hair, music
  • Details, Details, details! (ie – You can hear the rustle of your pantlegs as you walk down stairs)
• So many different locations, never gets boring
• Story; it’s like 3 stories blending simultaneously
• Dialog! Amazing script and story writing

• To help adventure game players..
  • Aim assist for newbies
  • Turning on siren causes cars to pull over for you
  • Or you can skip driving all together (holding y)
  • “Skip this action sequence, your progress will not be affected”
  • Sounds for clues, doesn’t take away from adventure experience
  • Puzzles are easy but fun, action puzzles more difficult
  • LONG and satisfying game!

Cons:

• Save points over user controlled saves – causes you to replay a lot
• Some controls awkward when looking around, searching for clues can’t really fully explore… so much detail but can’t see, it will be better with pc version
• Can’t accurately tell if people are lying, etc
• glitches, but they’re cute – your partner walks off randomly , had to reload from beginning of episode, missing pieces of dialog/audio, repeating audio
• doesn’t let you drive your cool car into next scenes
• not a lot of re-playability, even with it being a sandbox game

 

Oh, and did I mention.. there are three discs?!

 

 

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