glassdragon

It sounded overacted is all I said

discostu1337

It took an extra day, but I was finally able to start the game tonight. Here are some impressions after about 40 minutes:

-It doesn't suck like Brink!
-In true Rockstar fashion, the cars handle like crap with crazy sensitive steering.
-The facial work and animations are really good, the rest of the graphics are OK, but not great.
-The way the cases and story goes together is really well done, nice voice over work and flash backs etc.
-The game can be played in black and white.
-no avatar awards.
-good mix of story/csi crime stuff/chasing down leads.

That's about it so far, I'll post again if anyone has any questions or anything once I get a bit farther. I haven't really been able to free roam or anything yet. Also, the case has a little package of what look like film cells inside and it says "Badge Pursuit Challenge" on the outside, not sure if that ties into anything. The DLC is also on a card inside the case.

Update: Just checked, apparently the film cells help you find in-game badges to upgrade your guy with XP and unlock a special outfit.

Drexl

How long did it take you to get through the first case or two? I'm wondering about the overall length of the game.

discostu1337

There are 21 cases, the first 4 are tutorial. I did 5 cases and a few of the side quests in about 90 minutes. I'm thinking about a 10-12 hour game max?

I did find myself quitting to the main menu 10 times or so already during questioning. It's kind of poorly done. If you say something wrong or forget a piece of evidence, you basically fail the entire story. Luckily it saves right before them, so you can keep re-trying and pass it. I guess you could always just keep going and get some sort of terrible ending and 3 hour game

nickdawgy

Only 10-12? I could have sworn I heard 20-25 somewhere.

Boba Fett

I would guess as you work up in the game, the cases get longer. I can't see a patrolman or vice cop having as detailed or lengthy case as someone in arson.

astrochimp

I'm starting to think this game might not be for me, at least not a day one purchase. With previous Rockstar games I had more fun "not" playing the actual storyline and just messing about exploring (in RDR playing poker and looking for bears ) but it sounds like that's not a factor in LA Noire so much.

discostu1337

I could be a bit off with the 10-12, but I don't think its over 20 unless you do every little thing for 100%. Someone I know is 6 hours into the game and has been on disc 2 for a while.


Yeah, there is not really much to do other than the main cases. while driving, the police scanner will pick up a random crime that you can go do, which is usually chase a guy or kill some people. You can also attempt to collect 50 items, find landmarks, or drive all 95 cars in the game if you wanted to for extra gameplay.

I'd say Heavy Rain has the much better story and unique gameplay, but LA Noire is a good runner-up

glassdragon

DLC? Are we talking about the ps3 version so we can confirm that ps3 gets the exclusive dlc or was that a preorder bonus from somewhere?

discostu1337

A Slip of the Tongue is currently a Play (UK) and Walmart (US) pre-order exclusive. The Naked City from GAME (UK) and Gamestop (US).

That's the DLC, and they each have 5 achievements/trophies. If there is anything PS3 exclusive, It won't have trophies. I have never heard of PS3 exclusive DLC for the game, it's always been these two items.

Rival11

I'm so sick of waiting to play this....I think they hype their damn games too early I also have a feeling that "the rest of the graphics" are better than ok.

I think one of the first things I would like to try out is the completion of a case two separate ways....I am very interested to see how much\what varies when you go about them differently.

glassdragon

Rockstar did officially announce a ps3 exclusive case, but no one has heard anything about it since then.

LorenzoL

I'm on the fence with this game. I don't like the GTA games but loved RDR however, I'm getting a "Heavy Rain" kind of vibe with this and didn't particularly cared for that game.

discostu1337

This game has nothing to do with RDR or GTA IV, not even remotely similar aside from the fact that it's an open world. It's basically Heavy Rain/CSI with a large open world.

As far as completing a case several ways, I'm pretty sure there is only one outcome, or a failure. You just score lower if you mess up questions or forget to find evidence.

LorenzoL

I know that. I was just commenting on previous Rockstar games that I played.

DJLinus

Dammit. Just when I convinced myself I was going to wait for a price drop and not get sucked into another massive game right now, I had to go back and read through what I missed in this thread. I may have to jump on that Best Buy deal tonight.

Supermallet

Black and white mode? Sweeeeet.

MoviePage

I'm really wavering on whether or not to get this one on release day. Just cancelled my Amazon pre-order.

pinata242

If you mean midnight, I wouldn't go tonight

tlwizard

Apparently for a few hours this morning, BB's price dropped to $48.99 and people were able to get that price plus $15 GC plus 500 RZ points. That... would have been a great deal to get in on.

PopcornTreeCt

Yeah every game has that option, its called tweaking your television set.

Supermallet

Boba Fett

I was going to go on a rant about how taking something in color and converting it to black-and-white is actually not a simple process, but then I realized that likely all Rockstar did was the same thing you're implying.

DJLinus

No, my "midnight event" days are behind me, for the most part; a guy's got to go to work in the morning. The last one of those I stayed up for was opening night of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls and we all know how that turned out.

I thought the fine print of the BB pre-order deal was that orders had to be in by midnight tonight, but I could've misread it.

I'm pretty pumped for the game since I'm a huge fan of the Hard Case Crime books and this looks like the video game version of the genre. In fact, some HCC authors have been commissioned to write short stories tied to the game:

glassdragon

what do you mean tonight? Isn't the midnight opening tomorrow night?