![]() ![]() Noire” with the benefit of hindsight is how closely and blatantly tied to the world of film the game seems. ![]() But it actually plays better now on the Switch than it did back, its inconsistencies and visual flaws easier to forgive both on the platform and through the lens of nostalgia. Noire” felt like a bit of a letdown in 2011. Coming on the heels of the masterpieces “Red Dead Redemption” and aformentioned “Heavy Rain,” “L.A. Noire” already looks dated, but that’s a more forgivable flaw on the Switch than say a PS4 Pro, where one expects 4K visuals. Gaming moves so quickly that some of the visual and gameplay elements of “L.A. Confidential,” and the developers even used overhead shots of the city in 1947 to try and get the architecture of their open world vision of L.A. The story of the game borrows heavily from famous cop film noirs like “The Naked City,” “Chinatown,” and “L.A. You play Cole Phelps, beautifully motion-captured by Aaron Staton of “Mad Men,” who starts as a low-level cop in the city of angels but works his way up distinguished detective, hustling the increasingly-crowded case docket of the vice squad. Noire” takes place in Los Angeles, of course, in 1947. And its importance to the current era of gaming is even clearer now, six years later, as the game has been released for the Nintendo Switch, where it plays better than ever before. Noire” was, for better or worse, as close to film as video games had been to that point. With blatant cinematic references, recognizable performers, and linear storytelling, “L.A. Noire” offered a new kind of video game, something that felt closer to film than we had ever seen previously. Noire,' it just might, finally, have found the embodiment of that particular holy grail."Īrriving after the interactive film that was 2010's masterful “Heavy Rain,” “L.A. Noire” in 2011, The Guardian wrote, “"Ever since it first worked out how to assemble pixels so that they resembled something more recognisable than aliens, the games industry has dreamed of creating one thing above all else-a game that is indistinguishable from a film, except that you can control the lead character. ![]()
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