LA Noire is a totally different game. It tells more of an overall story arc, put together by environmental storytelling and all the cases you solve. It is definitely more of a "game" in the traditional sense than The Walking Dead. It's a lot more gameplay-focused, and gets repetitive fast. The Walking Dead is a rather unconventional experience, one I would not want to have in all my games, but a very, very brilliant exception. While calling it interactive story only captures a fragment of it's essence, it is it's focus point. And that's probably the only thing they have in common: Both focus heavily on story, LA Noire on the little cases, The Walking Dead on its overall experience. While I recommend LA Noire, I lost interest in it halfway through, due to repetition. So, only based on someone's interest in TWD, I cannot fully recommend LA Noire to him. On the other side, I can't easily recommend TWD to someone who likes LA Noire either, because you've got to fully embrace the experience, since that is kind of an experiment in gameplay, one that hasn't been done before. But, boy, is it a great one.
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