L.A. Noire

DanteTheLegend · 10-11-2006

I saw the video and i have to say, this game looks interesting, i'll be adding this to my PS3 Purchase list.

Check Gamespot.com for a video.

Los Angeles is apparently fertile ground for those paying tribute to film noir. Whether they strike it rich commercially and critically (Chinatown and L.A. Confidential) or not (Mulholland Falls and Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang), dark-edged detective yarns of all stripes seem right at home in the City of Angels.

Now the city is going to play host to a different kind of noir tribute--an interactive one--as Rockstar Games has announced that it will be publishing the debut title from Australian studio Team Bondi, L.A. Noire. While the game was originally revealed last year as a PlayStation 3 game to be published by Sony, today's announcement only refers to it as a "next-generation crime thriller," with no platforms specified.

L.A. Noire is set in "a perfectly re-created Los Angeles" of the late 1940s, with players being given an "open-ended challenge" to solve a series of murders. The postwar setting will include the noir necessity of corruption with optional accoutrements drugs and jazz thrown in for good measure.

Rockstar Games founder Sam Houser will serve as executive producer of the game, with Team Bondi founder Brendan McNamara (writer and director of The Getaway on the PlayStation 2) serving as director of development. A teaser trailer has already been released, but Rockstar will release a full trailer of the game on its official Web site October 5.

TheVietCong · 10-17-2006

I have heard of this game and it looks good :D I might get it.

but one thing I don't get is are you a detective?

DanteTheLegend · 10-17-2006

I don't know, either that or you run from detectives, its basically a love story.

smudboy · 02-03-2008

How do you know it's going to be a love story? Is there a link? I couldn't find any information about it on their website.

OME6A · 02-04-2008

Because every classic detective noire story involves some dame.

Negative Creep · 02-04-2008

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Because every classic detective noire story involves some dame.

+1

It also usually involves some kind of double-cross... and the double-cross is usually in some way related to the dame's "story".

smudboy · 02-06-2008

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Because every classic detective noire story involves some dame.

That doesn't mean it's going to be about romance.

Max Payne was pretty noirish, and it don't think it had romance (sure his family got killed, but that's more tragedy then showcasing some dame.) Generally, and I'm saying this liberally, hard-boiled stories tend to depict some kind of femme-fatale, and that may involve scenes of romance, or lots of flirting and not trusting each other. But the actual story isn't about romance.

Negative Creep · 02-06-2008

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Originally Posted by smudboy

That doesn't mean it's going to be about romance.

Max Payne was pretty noirish, and it don't think it had romance (sure his family got killed, but that's more tragedy then showcasing some dame.)

But I could have sworn that beyond Payne's wife, there was another woman (aka love interest) shown in the game, who was "outside" of the plotline with his family being slaughtered... but then again, it's been quite a handful of years since I've played the first Max Payne game... so my thought process might be a bit off.

smudboy · 02-07-2008

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Originally Posted by Negative Creep

But I could have sworn that beyond Payne's wife, there was another woman (aka love interest) shown in the game, who was "outside" of the plotline with his family being slaughtered... but then again, it's been quite a handful of years since I've played the first Max Payne game... so my thought process might be a bit off.

I'm trying to say the "noir" genre of storytelling is supposed to be dark and disturbing. Brutal, violent, romantic, etc. It doesn't need to have some kind of love interest, as much and as easy as it is to have it in there. In no way does a noir story = a love story.

OME6A · 02-07-2008

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In no way does a noir story = a love story.

I don't think anyone ever said that's what this is going to be, but rather pointed out the traditional trend of detective/crime noire stories involving a love interest to some degree with a troubled and or troubling woman.

Now that that topic has been beaten to death, did you guys know Mark Wahlberg is doing a Max Payne movie?