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How to Interrogate and Investigate in L.A. Noire

Time to channel your inner good cop... or bad cop.

Mar. 9 2011

Posted by: Brad

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L.A. Noire

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Edited By GunslingerPanda

Man, while the textures on the faces aren't great, the animation is stunning.

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It's both awesome and highly distracting how every actor in that game seems to be from Mad Men.
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Edited By bulldog300

Looks intense. Love the setting (hopefully won't become the next ww2) and love the premise. Say what you want about rockstar, at least they know how games are supposed to be made.

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We get closer and closer away from the uncanny valley. Its starting to creep me out.

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@G24S said:
"@ 02:17, is that the cop from Heroes? "

YES !!! 
 
also the guy at 1:49 looks and sounds like an actor whose name i dont know and whose roles i cant seem to remember.. 
he usually has minor 'loser' roles etc..
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Edited By MeatSim

Those faces just look so amazing.

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Edited By AgentofChaos

I fucking love the dialogue in this game.

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@MauroR: 
great graphics doesnt equal great game, and the game is not out yet either, so we dont know if it's great
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I can't stand how the faces look in this game, it looks like they're just plastered onto mediocre models with average animations tied to them. The detective work seems interesting for once though, but if I have to look at those damn face through the game to tell werether or not they are lying or telling the thruth I will not even check this out.
Also, every rockstar game seems to have the same guys programming the controls, they always wobble around slow and clunky, making the controls floaty and making it hard to even walk through a door without lining up your guy first, just because it's more "realistic" and "immersive" and it still gets praised by ciritics all over just because the story grabbed them or it was just fun to fuck around.
I know this is team Bondi, but what rockstar seems to be getting right everytime is story and a great dynamic world, maybe they should outsource some development on the control programming and shooting.

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This is the most amazing graphics I've ever seen. Great game.

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Edited By Ice_Cold

OBJECTION!

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Very Excite!

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All aspects of detective work, which includes shooting fools. Love it.

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cant  wait for this! looks totaly rad!!!

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Edited By mythrol

GDI, Rockstar has an amazing way of advertising their games that make me want to buy them.
 
RDR was the last game I pre-ordered and it looks like I might do the same for LA Noire.

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Tell me the truth!
You can`t handle the truth!!
 
that will be awesome if they add that line into the game

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@MjHealy said:
"Either it's me going insane or everyone in this trailer is an actor from Mad Men. "

 
 
Sure seems that way.  Consequently my interest in this game just shot up like 300 percent.  400 if I can punch Paul Kinsey in the face.
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Edited By G24S
@Jonnyflash80: According to Wikipedia he is credited in LA Noire as a suspect, but then that site can be edited by anyone.
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Still pretty stoked for this game, I'm a sucker for the fashions of this time period though.
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WANT!  Cant wait!

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The guy from Heroes was one of the suspects, his faced looked really off.

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want!!

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Edited By MjHealy

Either it's me going insane or everyone in this trailer is an actor from Mad Men.

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Edited By guilherme

I don't like rockstar's games but this is an exception! I want to play this one

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Edited By Foggen

Hey look, it's the first real cop game ever made.

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@G24S: You mean Greg Grunberg?  http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0342399/  I thought the same thing. I recognized him from Alias.  
I don't see a credit for this game on his IMDB profile but If that's not him it's damn uncanny.
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Jeeze. The facial animations in this game still blow my mind.

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@RagingLion:  Agree it's Team Bondi that has the technology for the facial motion scan, that makes these amazing details.
 
But I think it's a joint effort, they both have contribute to this game. But Rockstar is the well known company Team Bondai not so much (The getaway, and that's it?) So I think that is why people mentions it as a Rockstar game.
 
Although in the trailers, they mention both Team Bondi and Rockstar.
 
But I'm hoping when the game comes out team Bondi can get some credit also from the gaming community that call's it Rockstars game 8-)
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This game looks so badass they should call it Badass Game.

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WANT!

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I have a lot of dudes coming into the shop I work in saying "Can't wait for the new LA Noire game, its gonna be  like GTA". Just imagine that in a thick Dublin accent.  
 
 This is the same crowd who hated Red Dead Redemption cause they thought the horses were too hard to control and story was incomprehensible.

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Edited By FesteringNeon

I can't say it enough.. Love the face animation! 
Very recognizable cast too.. kinda scary

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This is looking good and I really want to play it.

That said I'm probably going to be the worst cop ever.

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@G24S said:
" @ 02:17, is that the cop from Heroes? "
yup
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It's looking pretty amazing, isn't it.
 
Edit:  Also I'm not sure that Rockstar should be getting as much praise as they are for this.  They only picked up Team Bondai a year ago or a bit more and that was after they had already settled on that tech and I'm sure most of the work of shaping how the game was going to play out and feel like had been done.

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Sooooo much Mad Men!

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@Lingxor: Yes but it looks like the choices you make have very serious consequences story wise. It would suck for the player if they made a few bad decisions because they were on the clock and missed huge parts of the overall game.
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HHHHHHNNGGGG!!
I want this game so hard.

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Oh cool.  It's just like them Ace Attorney games.

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Looks really cool, will most likely pre order this one in a couple of weeks.

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@xaveri: hadn't heard that thanks; makes me even more excited for this
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Probably GOTY. Looks so damn good. Mad Men actors is a nice bonus, too.

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@RockAction:  They have explained that there are several story arches along the game that intersect and a huge arch that makes the whole game. Cases can be independent but through them you can find clues for story arches and the main arch.
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I can't wait... this is going to be sooooo good!

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Holy shit.  Greg Grunberg's in this game.  Cool.

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Larry Finkelstein... isn't that the name of one the parents in Dharma & Greg?

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Edited By swamplord666

Is it just me or is the rockstar narrators' voice so suave that he convinces me games are awesome no matter what he's saying? 
 
This game looks great though and looks to be a welcome change in the rockstar formula

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Edited By LaszloKovacs

Something about the real person faces on the hand-animated body models creeps me out a little bit.
 
Still, seems like a  really cool game. I'd like to see more of it.

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So wait, do they have like the entire cast of Mad Men in there somewhere? Where's Jon Hamm?