Cole Phelps is many things. He is a decorated second world war veteran and a clean cop in a dirty town. He is also, and to a quite uncanny degree, actor Aaron Staton, who you probably already know as Ken Cosgrove on Mad Men.L.A. Noire is a game that will take many players by surprise. With its arcade driving controls and open world, not to mention the backing of Rockstar, your average gamer could be forgiven for thinking that
this 1946 detective game might merely be Grand Theft Auto played from the other side of the law. Nothing could be further from the truth, however. L.A. Noire has more in common with point and click adventure games than open-world crime simulators, and it’s better in practice than it may look on paper.
This isn’t just a game where you drive around, shooting drug dealers and chasing fiends in the name of rough
justice. While there’s plenty of shootouts and car chases to go around, the main spine of the game is in good old fashioned detective work. Each case from the game’s four main desks — Traffic, Homicide, Vice and Arson — starts with a crime scene, and as detective Cole Phelps, players will need to investigate for clues. Heading out to grab a copy of “L.A. Noire” tonight? There’s all kinds of different incentives for those of you who pre-ordered, and even a decent amount of goodies for the insane amongst you who feel like sitting outside your local game retail establishment until midnight tonight. If you’re among the early arrivals at Best Buy, though, you just might snag a free code for the game’s first downloadable-content.Having made a name, not to mention countless fortunes, op
erating on the shadier side of the law, Rockstar Game’s long awaited LA Noire finds the often controversial publisher toeing the straight and narrow in a 1940′s crime noir inspired Los Angeles.I need 14 minutes of your time. I’d like just 14 minutes to show you how L.A. Noire, an extraordinary and unconventional interactive detective thriller, plays.
Give me that time and you’ll see more than just a trailer’s worth of this week’s big, new Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 release. You’ll see what it’s like to play L.A. Noire. You’ll see, with minimal spoilers (trust me; tiny,
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