L.A. Noire is a dark and violent detective thriller set against the backdrop of Los Angeles in the post-war years of the late 1940s. The game draws stylistically from the film noir genre of movies, which were popular in the 1940’s and 1950’s.<\/p>\n
Gamers can expect themes of crime, sex, corruption, drugs, and moral ambiguity against a post-World War II backdrop.<\/p>\n
In L.A. Noire, players will take the reins of newly minted detective Cole Phelps (played by Aaron Staton of Mad Men) as he solves gruesome and mind-bending cases, interrogates suspects, and rises through the ranks of the LAPD.<\/p>\n
MotionScan – L.A. Noire’s Revolutionary Technology<\/strong><\/p>\n The foundation of L.A. Noire is a brand new technology called MotionScan that enables developer Team Bondi to capture and scan every nuance of a real actor’s facial performances and put them right into the game itself.<\/p>\n Team Bondi claims via press release that “it provides a level of realism, detail, performance and emotion never seen before in a videogame, and brings them to life in a totally new way. This goes beyond the limited grid of data points delivered by traditional motion capture – these are the actual performances themselves, scanned and placed onto our digital characters.”<\/p>\n “This marriage of gameplay and technology allows players for the first time ever to truly feel like a detective, reading the emotional behaviour of every character. Furthermore, MotionScan lends itself perfectly to this type of game: one that focuses on characters and performances where everyone has something to hide.”<\/p>\n ‘A picture speaks a thousand words’ as the old adage goes, and seeing the facial animations in action proves that Team Bondi and sister company Depth Analysis might indeed have a technology worth boasting about.<\/p>\n \n