L.A. Noire

By Strategy Informer on February 07, 2012

Almost six months later and Team Bondi's film noir inspired crime thriller, L.A. Noire, comes to the PC having dazzled critics and gamers on the home consoles back in May. We play as Cole Phelps, now an officer of the Los Angeles PD having returned...

By Atomic MPC on January 23, 2012

It reeks of console port, but fun may still be...

By IGN Gear on November 15, 2011

Noticeably repetitive gameplay moments aside, L.A. Noire offers a different and delightful take on the open-world formula that Rockstar’s refined over the years. You can explore the world if you want, but I love how focused the story is, that you...

By Atomic MPC on July 21, 2011

One of the challenging games we’ve ever played, for a lot of...

By HEXUS.net on July 14, 2011

L.A. Noire is a game of extremes that shifts in pace as it takes you from the leisurely pursuit of casually cruising the sun-soaked streets of Los Angeles in the luxury of your 1941 Pontiac Torpedo Six, to raising your anxiety levels by tasking you...

By The Lobe and Mail on July 04, 2011

L.A. Noire, a film-noir-inspired detective game from Sydney-based Team Bondi, is set in a dark, gritty, exquisitely detailed mid-century Los Angeles. Nixon ads hang between landmarks like the RKO Theatre and the Mayfair Hotel as crimson-lipped women...

By PCWorld New Zealand on June 27, 2011

You walk down dark alleys carrying a flashlight. You drive 70-year-old cars with sirens that sound like Civil Defence alarms. You watch beautiful women perform sad songs and listen to smooth jazz on the radio. Your name is Cole Phelps, and you’re...

By Gadget Guy Australia on June 10, 2011

L.A. Noire, an action adventure game from the people who brought us GTA, is not your usual videogame fare. More exploration and discovery than run and gun, you play most of the game as a rookie detective freshly returned from a harrowing wartime...

By Smarthouse on June 09, 2011

Dramatically and thematically, LA Noire ticks all the boxes of a perfect crime fiction story. The hard-boiled, gritty take on post-war America resembles the crime works of Faulkner and Chandler, with the 21st century edge of LA Confidential.Just as LA...

By T3 Magazine on May 20, 2011

With the fourth season of Mad Men frustratingly delayed, The Wire's riddles long solved, and not even Steve Buscemi's suits able to raise the so-so Boardwalk Empire to the Sopranos-rivalling titan moored, it's undeniably time for a new...