LA Noire game review

The new release by Rockstar games and new developer Team Bondi released early last week and boy has it taken my breath away. This stunning game takes place is corrupt 1947 Los Angeles where you play as the LAPD detective Cole Phelps. In this game, you actually feel like you are a detective as you go look for clues and interview people and try to solve a series of cases. Some cases in this game even link together and you have to use your detective skills to solve the big picture.

This game uses a new technology where they recorded real actors faces so you can solve interviews and try and figure out if someone is lying or telling the truth. To be honest, this really blew me away. Seeing everyone talking and actually looking like they are real people. I tried to play a different game but they looked like cardboard cut-outs compared to this game.

I’m just going to put this simply right now. This is simply one of the greatest games I have ever played. Ever. Rockstar did it again with their skilled writing staff to actually make me feel invested in a video game. Red Dead Redemption did an amazing job at making me really love the character of John Marston, but they sent me over the edge with Cole Phelps. Cole starts off as just one of those troubled army soldiers who came back from WWII and wanted to do the right thing, and then you start to uncover how complicated of a character he actually is. I have never had my heart literally broken by a character in a video game before LA Noire.

The cases in this game are so much fun. Even when I wasn’t playing the game, I would be thinking about my every-day life like a detective. But that’s just how good this game is at drawing you in. It’s not the next GTA, you don’t drive around and steal cars and run over hookers. You actually play a good cop and after a while you actually feel like you need to be good.

The feel of the game actually feels like an old 1950’s Noire detective movie. There is corruption in the government and in the police force. You find yourself doing things that Cole brings into question and you even question yourself. This game does so many awesome things to draw you in, it’s incredible.

The only complaint I have for the game is sometimes randomly the rendering will be off. But that’s rare if you install the game to your hard drive.

Over all I give this game a perfect score of 10/10. I will probably never play a game that will get this score from me. And I am very critical over my game scores.