L.A. Noire

L.A. Game Noire dusts off somewhat forgotten detective stories and presents them in a modern, very attractive form. Unusual, original and exciting - a dream debut.

We consider L.A. Noire an excellent game that will please the vast majority of players. But be aware that L.A. Noire is mostly an investigative game and for this reason does not have as much action as some players would like it to have. If you are looking for lots of action and shooting in the 40s, L.A. Noire is not the game that you seek. However, if you are in the mood to spend hours looking for...

May it be the likes of Shadow of the Colossus or Metal Gear Solid, if it’s quite there but not enough to push the boundaries, it’s still an awesome game.

The police procedural is a wildly popular literary, television, and film genre, but relatively few game developers have successfully captured the thrill of cracking a case. Of the few interactive experiences that have tried to match the intrigue of classic detective stories like The Big Sleep and Chinatown, the Rockstar Games and Team Bondi collaboration L.A. Noire stands out most clearly in the l...

When LA Noire first released in 2011, it was a one-of-a-kind game. The facial capture technology had never been seen before in a video game and its interrogation system made it stand out not only from every other Rockstar game but from everything else, period. After diving back into this gritty recreation of 1940s Los Angeles on the Nintendo Switch more than six years later, I realized there is st...

Fun fact: did you know that L.A. Noire actually released closer to the 1940s than to 2017?

Rockstar Leeds has done a great job bringing Team Bondi’s L.A. Noire to the PC, which is a thoroughly interesting and at times quite addictive crime thriller. It’s easy to get wrapped up in a case and wanting to uncover what really happened; sifting through the false smiles of NPCs and rubbing their nose in our superior detective work. Cole Phelps feels at home on the desktop and I didn’t experien...

Ever since Columbo asked for “just one more thing”, we've been hooked on sleuthing. Sadly, nothing has ever given us the chance to put our years of watching the glass-eyed master at work on TV to the test, and games that have attempted to weave a murder mystery into their stories have almost always fallen short in terms of our expectations. The less said about the CSI games, the better, for instan...