A few L.A. Noire images

Driftwood
Monday, January 17, 2011 | 8:00 PM
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Rockstar sent us these four new images of L.A. Noire. True, we wouldn't have minded bigger ones, but apart from that, Team Bondi's new game is without a doubt among our most anticipated titles this year. What about you?
Update: HD screens available.

4 screens

FelixThaCat

Commented on 2011-01-17 20:22:08

thouse face expressions are great !

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Anvil

Commented on 2011-01-17 20:48:23

It's amazing that you can easily recognize people you now from tv. Like that guy from pic 3, I could swear I've seen him somewhere

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Zarsky

Commented on 2011-01-17 21:13:10

This is easily the most movielike game to date.

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digi_matrix

Commented on 2011-01-17 21:39:13 In reply to Anvil

Posted by Anvil

It's amazing that you can easily recognize people you now from tv. Like that guy from pic 3, I could swear I've seen him somewhere

Pretty sure that's the Fringe doctor.

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Driftwood

Commented on 2011-01-17 22:27:32 In reply to digi_matrix

Posted by digi_matrix

Pretty sure that's the Fringe doctor.

Clearly not.

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Freditor

Commented on 2011-01-17 22:38:12 In reply to Zarsky

Posted by Zarsky

This is easily the most movielike game to date.

Nope, that would be Uncharted

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spacemanjupiter

Commented on 2011-01-17 23:10:17

I think he was referring to the quality of animation which contributes more to a movie like feel.

Uncharted characters look like sock puppets compared to the facial animation in this game, sorry.

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Anvil

Commented on 2011-01-17 23:23:51 In reply to digi_matrix

Posted by digi_matrix

Pretty sure that's the Fringe doctor.

Just to clarify; pic 3 has turned into pic 4 after the HD update

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Driftwood

Commented on 2011-01-17 23:31:31 In reply to Anvil

It's Troy Winbush then. ;)

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IRAIPT0IR

Commented on 2011-01-17 23:46:23 In reply to Freditor

Posted by Freditor

Nope, that would be Uncharted

We should always say at the start of any post "Besides Uncharted" or after the post "Not counting Uncharted games"

Because clearly those games beats any game in any category ever.

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2PintsOfInsulin

Commented on 2011-01-18 00:10:15 In reply to IRAIPT0IR

Posted by IRAIPT0IR

We should always say at the start of any post "Besides Uncharted" or after the post "Not counting Uncharted games"

Because clearly those games beats any game in any category ever.

What he said.

How many facepalms: can I fit in this box?

They are good-looking games but nothing to shout about, this kind of detail in an open-world game (the above tortuously-overused examples are scripted and linear) is amazing, and shouldn't even be compared!

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Anvil

Commented on 2011-01-18 00:49:06 In reply to Driftwood

Posted by Driftwood

It's Troy Winbush then. ;)

You sir know your movies ^^

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SamuelDL

Commented on 2011-01-18 01:06:39

This game is AWESOME. Salu2.

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eeZee

Commented on 2011-01-18 06:00:42 In reply to Anvil

Posted by Anvil

It's amazing that you can easily recognize people you now from tv. Like that guy from pic 3, I could swear I've seen him somewhere

Oh, the irony.

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jackdoe

Commented on 2011-01-18 07:39:02 In reply to IRAIPT0IR

Posted by IRAIPT0IR

We should always say at the start of any post "Besides Uncharted" or after the post "Not counting Uncharted games"

Because clearly those games beats any game in any category ever.

Just like we should say "Besides Bayonetta" or "Not counting Bayonetta" before every post of an action game as well? Zing!

But seriously, this game has the same facial animation as RDR (which was superb) but has the texture detail and lower body animation of GTAIV (I could crop the head of the black dude and replace it with Jacob's head and it wouldn't look out of place for GTAIV). This makes for an awkward combination IMO.

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GFreeman

Commented on 2011-01-18 11:56:17 In reply to spacemanjupiter

Posted by spacemanjupiter

I think he was referring to the quality of animation which contributes more to a movie like feel.

Uncharted characters look like sock puppets compared to the facial animation in this game, sorry.

Real life faces look better than keyframe animation faces?? REALLY??? Oh my GOD!!! :O

Uncharted 1/2 and L.A. Noire are two differently styled games, one stylistic, the other shooting for photo-realism, it's a pointless comparison.

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ronaldo24

Commented on 2011-01-18 12:43:52

after r* droping the bomb with gta4 then rdr, i know what to expect from them, (only quality games) they put them self in very high position

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Janman

Commented on 2011-01-18 13:25:44

I was pretty excited about this game when I was under impression that it is an open world game with authentic setting. Then I read that the story is quite linear. And now I see only screenshots of people talking and I am not that interested about games where people talk a lot. So my anticipation level is not that high anymore.

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bleachedsmiles

Commented on 2011-01-18 13:59:58

yep.. really do need to see some gameplay. Could be letting ourselves in for a fall as as awesome as these screens look they've not shown anything of the game that wasnt a cutscene

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IRAIPT0IR

Commented on 2011-01-18 15:27:34 In reply to jackdoe

Posted by jackdoe

You seriously think those games are the pinnacle of everything right?

Jeez....

Im out.

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_killzone_

Commented on 2011-01-18 17:52:56

Faces look great but this game still no. They should show gameplay. I guess next batch of pics, video is going to show more faces lol

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b0vril

Commented on 2011-01-18 21:56:07 In reply to bleachedsmiles

Posted by jackdoe

But seriously, this game has the same facial animation as RDR...

The facial animation is clearly many many times more expressive than that in RDR. If you really can't see then... well, I don't want to say.

Posted by Janman

This is an open world game. The story will be as linear as GTA or RDR. I don't know what you expected. But I guess if you don't like talking then...

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KORNdog

Commented on 2011-01-18 22:45:07

this tech is too advanced for this gen imo. it's impressive as hell. but it looks weird as hell at the same time. you have these lifelike facial animations on low poly, undetailed bodies walking around in poorly lit, poor quality worlds. i'd prefer some sort of consistency personally. but that's just me. this is something i'd love to see next gen since the rest of the world would hopefully be on par with the faces. currently it looks like someones super-imposed a real face onto a shitty character model. heavy rain is the only game i can think of that would benefit from this tech without creating a jarring quality difference between face and body/world since it's so contained.

some gameplay would be nice too seeing as we havnt seen any.

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