GamePro: "In many ways, L.A. Noire is the game that Rockstar has wanted to make since Grand Theft Auto 4. They must have been absolutely delighted when they found Team Bondi's project, which really has far more in common with a Japanese visual novel than a sandbox game.
It's got problems though. As much as I agree with my colleague Will Herring that it's secretly an adventure game, I don't think it's a particularly good adventure game. A great deal of effort was put into the facial expressions, but it never really goes any deeper than that."
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.
BLG writes, "Do you ever get that feeling after you’ve finished a game that you just wish there was more? Or do you spend years hoping and praying for a sequel that never comes?
This list compiles some of the top games we desperately want to get a sequel. Please give us more of our favorite games!"
Would love to see a sequel to the 7th gen FPS campaign SINGULARITY from RAVEN Software..
L.A. Noire is coming to the library of free games available to GTA+ Members on Thursday, May 2.
I, too, am beginning to see the chinks in LA Noire's armor more as I play it. I don't get being told that I've completely fouled up a case, then am being highly lauded in the very next cutscene. Well, that and Phelps controls like a goddamned RDR horse...
There is a great deal in L.A. Noire that deserves respect --- including a script that is far from being just another dumbed-down retread of other games -- but as I near the end of my Vice Desk assignments, I sense that this is not a game that I will love.
Red Dead Redemption was a game that absorbed me deeply; and i will never forget my first run-through of Bioshock. Electrifying! I know that L.A. Noire is a different sort of game and a daring gamble in an industry preoccupied with producing money-making franchises. But "respect" is not as satisfying as genuine affection.
I will continue with L.A. Noire DLC -- but i will still be looking for the next great game that is capable of astounding me. Will it be Skyrim? or BioShock Infinite? At present, i have no idea. I find myself wishing that Witcher 2 was available on consoles.