L.A. Noire

A few quick first impressions... game's a lot more linear than your typical sandbox-game... really love the film noir vibe... Holy shit, a 3-disc game?!? Takes me back to the PS1 days... more to follow.
 
I love the look of the game, but I wish the city was more interactive. I can't switch the radio stations in the car? I can't buy a hot dog? This won't be the game a lot of people were expecting I'm sure, but I personally like seeing rockstar focus so much on their narrative. This strikes me more as an RPG and less as a sandbox. I'm reminded of a point and click adventure game.
 
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Ghengis_John said:
I love the look of the game, but I wish the city was more interactive. I can't switch the radio stations in the car? I can't buy a hot dog? This won't be the game a lot of people were expecting I'm sure, but I personally like seeing rockstar focus so much on their narrative. This strikes me more as an RPG and less as a sandbox. I'm reminded of a point and click adventure game.
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You cant buy a hot dog that slightly disappointing wonder why they even have stands on side walks. I was thinking of stopping in between missions and getting one sometime but that answers my question. I can understand the music thing it is the 40s there wasn't much variety compared too the 2000s. It was stated before this game came out that its not gonna be sandbox.
 
Koompbala said:
I can understand the music thing it is the 40s there wasn't much variety compared too the 2000s.
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You're kidding right? Maybe not as much as today, but there was plenty of variety, it's not like Tex Ritter and Count Basie were doing the same type of music. The era saw an explosion of new styles including Rock, Smooth Jazz and Bebop. And don't forget there was a lot more on the radio than music, since there was no television. They had talk stations at the time with as much political bias as today (Charles Coughlin for instance), news programs, sports, dramas, comedies and variety shows. This was the era of "war of the worlds" and "The Shadow". Rockstar kinda missed the boat on the immersion train with that one. I guess though as long as the game runs, they didn't wanna rack up their licensing costs.
 
You should definitely cop the original score on iTunes (or some other less-than-legal means). It's beautiful. I'm disappointed it's not as sandboxy as previous Rockstar titles, but the narrative is presented beautifully. Not sure how it stacks against RDR -- IMO the best of the sandbox games of this console generation -- but it's still early.

I'm really digging the detective work, even though I've seen in some reviews that it rubs a few the wrong way. Also, the main theme fucking owns.

 
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