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It's a Tough Row to Hoe in L.A. Noire

Your badge and your gun, on my desk, NOW.

Apr. 7 2011

Posted by: Brad

In This Episode:

L.A. Noire

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Edited By Rincewind

I love the look of LA Noire

Edit: Yeah First! quest.

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Can't wait for this game.

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Edited By Swick

Looking forward to this one.

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Edited By icytower38

Looks awesome as always.

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Edited By SSully

Can I have this game now? Please???

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Words cannot describe my excitement for this game.

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Man, how many L.A. Noire vids are they putting out? Crazy.

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Words cannot aptly describe how much I'm looking forward to this!

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Edited By TheYear20XX

Damn this game looks crazy good.

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I can not wait!

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Won't be buying this on release - gonna be pretty hung over and getting ready to party. National Holiday in Norway and everything.

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So stoked for this!

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So awesome! Looks like a tv show

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It's too bad that the rest of the mocap seems kind of sub-par.

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I'm ready, bring it on! Just over a month left!

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I want this to be good so bad, but I have no idea what the game play is like minus the cases. It is an open world, GTA/Red Dead style game right?

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So damn psyched for this.

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The face look amazing.

The rest looks pretty damn ugly. :|

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Look's great, I can't wait!

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@DrMadHatten: I believe there is a trailer showing very GTA-like driving and shooting gameplay. I have to imagine it's open world as well.
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@DrMadHatten: There is an 'open world' map to explore if you so wish, yes. However unlike the GTA games there are limitations in place to keep the overall serious mood of the story, such as; not being able to run down or shoot pedestrians in the street.
EDIT: You're on the right side of the law, after all.
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Another product too busy trying jealously to be a movie to remember it is also supposed to be a game? We'll see soon enough I guess.

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@IkariNoTekken:  I hope there is a bigger penalty besides money
 Rack up $47,000 in penalties during a single story case.
one of the achievements/trophies indicates what happens if you are doing bad stuff
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Fuck me, that was awesome.

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McGarnagle!!!!!!!!

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0:19
Walter from fringe?!

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@DJKommunist: yes he is always happy to help the LAPD
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Edited By ItBeStefYo

Guy blinks at certain points so much it annoys me. Also when he shot his gun he wore his constipated face

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This game looks great, but I just can't get my head around how it's going to work in terms of open world vs. mission based.. Looking forward to it hugely

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I still can't get over how damn good those facial animations look.

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man those ears are creepy...

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tasty

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@easthill said:
" Won't be buying this on release - gonna be pretty hung over and getting ready to party. National Holiday in Norway and everything. "
RUSS!
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@easthill: well if you don't buy it from overseas it comes out on the 20th in Europe iirc(not sure about Norway :S)
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@Sanj said:
" I still can't get over how damn good those facial animations look. "
same thing i was thinking
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@Anwar: Hopefully.

I actually remember reading an interview which said there were plans to not allow the player to kill pedestrians, they would immediately run away or something. I don't remember the source though, unfortunately. 
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@Anwar: Oops I was wrong: You can only pull out your weapon is certain areas.
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@IkariNoTekken: in one of the previews they mentioned, that they don't want to be as punishing as Mafia 2, talking about the driving aspect, not the other stuff(rampages and stuff), I can't really say if that is good or bad, because I haven't played Mafia 2
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My god, look at the face animations and expressions! Intense. I hope the gameplay holds up. Could be a winner.

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Oh man, I just love the setting of this game. Definitely don't have enough games in the 30s and 40s noir dudes-in-suits era.

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@Anwar:  The Mafia games are fairly strict with speed limits and whatnot. You have a speed limiter and once you turn it off the police will pursue you if they spot you.

Good to hear that L.A Noire might not been as punishing, although I can't see them allowing you to go speeding round the streets either. I'm thinking you might get a speed warning and if you choose to ignore it, you face a fine or something along those lines. As long as its not Mafia's "chase you down and smash into your car until it no longer works" style, I'm okay with whatever Team Bondi go with.

Personally I didn't kill anyone innocent in Red Dead Redemption until I had finished the campaign. I played it sensibly from start to finish and I intend to do the same with this.
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Fucking incredible looking game, the story and gameplay are looking good too.

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come on may!

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@Sanj: Yeah it is one of those things that seem to impress again and again.I guess that as gamers we aren't used to this sort of tech.
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@ItBeStefYo: Just like real people.Plus how you know he didn't shoot someone he didn't want to?
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@Metal_Mills:  To me it still looks like they cut out a real face and glued it to a mannequin. Or like someone's poking their face through a hole in the videogame. Too much difference between the realism of the face and the quality of everything else, which my brain just can't overcome.
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shooting animations look very stiff and wooden. Everything else looks amazing tho.

This game could go either way. Cant wait to find out. 
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Is it just the video or does it look like the frame rate is single digits a lot of the time?

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Rockstar just take my money already.

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CG Rip Torn!