Until last year, Team Bondi’s L.A. Noire had been something of an enigma. Since it bears the Rockstar name, many assumed that it would simply be a Grand Theft Auto-style adventure set in 1940s Los Angeles instead of the ’80s, ’90s, or the present. After watching a half-hour demo of the game at PAX East, I can say that while it shares some elements with Rockstar’s previous crime thrillers, I’ve never seen a game quite like this before.
Members of the original development team behind Rockstar Games' LA Noire are working on a new psychological thriller called Sowden House.
Hopefully McNamara is as far away from this as possible he set up shop in Australia then did nothing but complain about Australian labour laws while trying to make his workers live at the office working 24/7 on la noire punishing them for leaving at 3 am and being 10 minutes late to work at 9am the next day.
It's astonishing that none of the workers went to the fair work ombudsman as the studio would have been fined astronomical numbers
Brendan McNamara is a brilliant writer and director but he should never, ever be in charge of a studio. What he did to those devs was far beyond "crunch", and it went on for, what, 7 years? That's insane.
But I'm glad to see some of that team have come together again to create something new. A psychological thriller sounds right up my alley.
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L.A. Noire is coming to the library of free games available to GTA+ Members on Thursday, May 2.
I am looking forward to this game, it's cool that they are trying something different. It seems that these days the only thing that is "cool" is to be the bad guys but to be honest that got old a while back.
Playing a game as a cop for a change will be a nice change of pace, and the fact that it's based around thinking your way through problems instead of just shooting or punching everything in sight is definately cool.... don't get me wrong I always like the option to knock people out and pop caps in their asses but I also like to use my brain too.
I just had the thought that I'd like to see a James Bond type game made in this way, or at least some kind of spy game.... where the emphasis is on thinking your way through problems.
Rockstar is in a great position to pull off all these different types of games that would be a risk for alot of devs.