LA Noire is all ready to be the next big thing – quite literally. Rockstar has announced that the Xbox version of the open world crime-‘em-up will be shipping on three discs, while the PS3 version will fill up an entire 25-GB Blu-ray disc.
“L.A. Noire was always going to be a massive game, from the size and detail of the world to the length of the cases, and of course, the sheer amount of MotionScan data required for the faces of over 400 actors in-game,” the company’s Jeronimo Barrera tells Kotaku. “To tell the story and make the game we wanted to make, we knew that it was going to take an entire single layer Blu-ray disc and three Xbox discs.”
Don’t expect a 100-hour game or anything like that, though – much of that space is required for the game’s MotionScan data, used to create realistic facial expressions and animation.
“Throughout development, we created lots of great cases, the bulk of which were central to the main story of Cole Phelps and his rise through the ranks of the LAPD, alongside other cases that felt more like strong stand-alone episodes,” adds Barrera. “This gave us a powerful main story, and left us with quality extra content that we wanted to put out as DLC, that would slot seamlessly into the existing game.”
Do you care how many disks LA Noire for Xbox 360 ships on? What if it shipped on 10 disks, would you care then? WOULD YOU?
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