L.A. Noire 7 Years Later
(N4G PS3)

David from BagoGames writes: Seven years on, Team Bondis development troubles color L.A. Noires perception. Knowing what we know now about its development and working conditions, many of its blemishes make sense. While the facial motion capture still holds up, most of the game falls a little flat. Investigating is entertaining, but cases play out in such a linear fashion that success or failure doesnt impact anything. You could mess up every question and still make the story progress just the same as a more eagle-eyed detective. The only difference would be the star rating delegated at each cases end. L.A. Noire was a technically ambitious last gen open world adventure game, but development hell inhibited its vision.