LA Noire review (MyGaming)

No new revelations from me, and I'm gonna add my voice to the praise. Got this yesterday and had to force myself to shut it down and get some sleep eventually, stylish, compelling and awesome....great game.
 
I finished this last night, and really enjoyed it. It had things that niggled me and the gameplay eventually lost its shine even while the story kept me involved, but over all I'd give it a very solid 8.5/10. The face capture really is that good, though I found that the rest of the animations weren't of the same quality, and it could be a little distracting.
My one biggest gripe with the game, if you can call it that, was that this was obviously somebody's homage to James Ellroy / LA Confidential. He's a fantastic noir writer, and the book & movie both of LA Confidential are excellent, but there were just a few too many similarities to them in the game. Cole Phelps = Ed Exley, his relationship with Jack Kelso was very reminiscent of that between Exley & Bud White, Capt Donnely = Lt Dudley Smith, and so on.
This isn't a criticism of the game per se, it's just something I found a little jarring when something popped up in the game I recognized from the various books and the movie, and it tended to break the immersion for me. If you've not read / seen LA Confidential, do so if you've finished with LA Noir and enjoyed it, & then maybe try some of Ellroys' other books too, they're well worth the time ;)
 
pantsula said:
Played a bit and must say it's ASEM. A real breath of fresh air. Highly recommended for any gamers who doesn't just want to shoot people in the face.

And those interrogations are hard to get right
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though you can shoot bad guys in the face if you want to.
 
pantsula said:
Played a bit and must say it's ASEM. A real breath of fresh air. Highly recommended for any gamers who doesn't just want to shoot people in the face.

And those interrogations are hard to get right
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I struggle with the lie, doubt and truth thing also. Not easy, but challenging.
 
Murph said:
What are the implications of getting an interrogation wrong?
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Well, I haven't missed a case yet, but I suppose it depends. I've been lucky that I usually get some right and wrong. I think if you get them all wrong, worst case scenario is you start the case over.
 
So, like Witcher 2, it seems that one should wait for LA Noire 2, for a fuller gameplay.
thanks for all the report-backs.
 
Murph said:
What are the implications of getting an interrogation wrong?
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You get a rating out of 5 for every case. I've had one case where i got the wrong guy, not sure if it was story related or actually because i did such a shit job. I'm leaning towards a shit job, i really didn't know who did it.
 
Gir said:
You get a rating out of 5 for every case. I've had one case where i got the wrong guy, not sure if it was story related or actually because i did such a shit job. I'm leaning towards a shit job, i really didn't know who did it.
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Ah ok, yeah saw you jamming on Saturday - maybe it was too late at night :p
 
Murph said:
What are the implications of getting an interrogation wrong?
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Well, to level up or gain higher ranks you would earn XP. One of the methods to earn XP would be to correctly answer/ask questions in an investigation. If you don't get most of the questions right, you lose out on some decent XP to rank up. But there are no serious implications as far as I can recall.
 
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