Words cannot describe how excited i am for this! 
 
http://www.xbox360achievements.org/news/news-7132-L-A--Noire-s-Groundbreaking-Performance-Capture-Exposed-In-New-Video.html

Pretty impressive tech, but I wonder how much it will end up mattering in the game.

I'm getting the impression there's gonna be some type of dialogue-system, where you'd be able to pressure people on a subject if you think they're lying. If the facial expressions are as good as the video makes them look, that could turn out to be pretty goddamn cool.

God damn, that just look stunning

Its cool, but you still have a distinct separation from movement and dialog, and the actors aren't interacting with anything. So its still not ideal for replicating movie quality. Nearly there though.

I'm totally impressed and I rarely say that. It's good they are going in that direction of realism.

Incredible.

Holy crap on a cheese topped cracker. That right there might have just single handedly sold me on the game.

I could not stop saying things like "Holy shit!" and "Goddamn, look at that!" while watching this. I didn't think any game would have better facial animation than Enslaved for quite some time, but LA Noire blows it out of the water.

This is swiftly becoming one of my most anticipated titles. Between the deliberate pacing, the evolution of the adventure genre, the unique setting and the absolutely stunning graphical advancements, it just is pushing all the buttons I could possibly have. Can. Not. Wait.

I fucking love 1940's and 1950's gangster stuff, so if they just phoned in a post-war GTA also ran I would've been stoked, but seriously? I only heard about this game today and I am so fucking pumped right now. I'm setting myself up for a fall but I can help it, I'm excited.

It looks like you won't be able to do long hair in this new facial capture fun thing

It looks out of place when the bodies don't move as fluidly, but it still looks good.

This has already been on the top of my hype list since I heard about it for the first time.
 
I can't fucking wait.

A step in a great direction I would say. 
 
As new technologies emerge this gives me high expectations on what to expect when it comes to the use of this kind of facial recognition in future games.

I think the natural extension of this is the full body capture tech they used in Spiderman 2 (doc oc falling at the end, 100 percent CGI full body capture). Replace those thousand cameras with film cameras and you've got something that tracks your body movement and facial movement at the same time, and you can even have someone else nearby reading the other lines so they have something to play off of.

While the tech is indeed impressive, you always have to be very careful about these things.
 
1. As was mentioned, this just smells of million-dollar investments. I would imagine that paying one hour of capturing an actor like this equals to several days of more conservative capturing / animation. More investments means more expensive games, means less venturing, less originality, less everything else. Personally, before we perfect facial animation, why not make games narratively interesting first? I think the current, 09/10 technology is enough to carry narrative and content innovation in games for the next 10 years; because everything else is still very much stuck in 1998. 
 

@ShiftyMagician:
 
I would agree with you if the industry had not shown to fail in that regard so much in the past. Yes, of course the technology will become more affordable comparably quickly. Yes, of course technological innovation should, in theory, not hinder content innovation but in fact support it. In reality, however, this just does not happen. In games, technological advancement is racing like a mad man, and it is almost only ever used to make 20 year old things a little prettier or a a little more accessible, and even when technology slowes down (like with the current, 5 year console generation) nobody is interested in exploring its potential except for matters of volume, size, polish and presentation (namely imitating as many movie cinematography/editing conventions as you can). 
 
Rarely anyone stops to think what magical boxes of wonder and potential current consoles and the PC are. Rarely anyone wants to - or is able to finance their wishes to - explore the types of characters, worlds, stories and concepts you could have an audience experience interactively. 
 
This is what makes me cynical about every next best "look how awesome this tech is" video. What the medium needs is the creation of a demand of more culturally, aesthetically relevant content. The tools are all there, but the demand is smothered in a continuous flow of added shine and superficialities. 
 
So I am saying: We already have more than competent facial animation tech. Let's get really excited and innoventive with that first before we invest in and oogle over an even shinier tech.

I don't like the face animations. Realistic lips with fairly static dead eyes makes it look weird.

" @ShiftyMagician:  I would agree with you if the industry had not shown to fail in that regard so much in the past. Yes, of course the technology will become more affordable comparably quickly. Yes, of course technological innovation should, in theory, not hinder content innovation but in fact support it. In reality, however, this just does not happen. In games, technological advancement is racing like a mad man, and it is almost only ever used to make 20 year old things a little prettier or a a little more accessible, and even when technology slowes down (like with the current, 5 year console generation) nobody is interested in exploring its potential except for matters of volume, size, polish and presentation (namely imitating as many movie cinematography/editing conventions as you can).   Rarely anyone stops to think what magical boxes of wonder and potential current consoles and the PC are. Rarely anyone wants to - or is able to finance their wishes to - explore the types of characters, worlds, stories and concepts you could have an audience experience interactively.   This is what makes me cynical about every next best "look how awesome this tech is" video. What the medium needs is the creation of a demand of more culturally, aesthetically relevant content. The tools are all there, but the demand is smothered in a continuous flow of added shine and superficialities.   So I am saying: We already have more than competent facial animation tech. Let's get really excited and innoventive with that first before we invest in and oogle over an even shinier tech. "

" is this just going to keep going til we get back to FMV games again? because I am 100% for that "

This suddenly became my most anticipated release.

It doesn't look that great, there's something really weird looking to it, could be the eyes. 

The one thing that disappoints me about this game is that the faces look amazing and the rest of the graphics look average. Even the guy whom I presume is the main character is wearing a box'y hat that just takes away from the fact his face looks amazing. I hope the only reason the graphics look like that is it's taking so much memory or processing power or something to be able to show those faces.

There are weird tan lines where the hair meets the face. Kinda takes you out of the affect.

" It doesn't look that great, there's something really weird looking to it, could be the eyes.  "

" This suddenly became my most anticipated release. "

if the game is going in the direction i think its going in i cannot wait.. but what's even more interesting is that it's being made my rockstar...gotta love rockstar

I'll admit having only seen the "we make fantastic faces"-movie and nothing else about this game, but I'm kinda nervous that's all this game is gonna center around. Like how Avatar was a 3D movie and nothing else. Hardly even a movie.

 
This looks amazing!