L.A. Noire

[Perversion]

It's the new GI's cover story. It's a 40s noir detective thing made by Rockstar, and apparently mixes pulp investigative detective stuff with GTA-esque open world exploration. The focus, though, from the article, seems to NOT be on running around GTA-style and killing people.


Main reason I made this thread, though, is to say that the in-game character models put Heavy Rain to shame. Apparently, there were over 300 characters, and each was modeled using 35 (I think) individual cameras to track facial movements/expressions, and was synced with the dialogue. What this means is, because real people were modeled speaking their dialogue in real time, there are not going to be any weird lipsync issues. Granted, they've only shown still shots, but these look as close to real people as I think is possible right now.


Maybe I'll find a link or something to post here in a bit.

EDIT: Link to 1up.com, with embedded trailer.

[John Mora]

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Would it really be that hard to put Heavy Rain's character models to shame?

[The_Real_Crunk]

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Heavy Rain has PS2 character models, so its not too hard to be better~

[Magus]

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No one's yet to beat Shenmue and Silent Hill 4.





But a noir vidya game?

About time someone attempt one. Been a long time since Snatcher. :V

edit: Or Max Payne 2. I GUESS.

[DK]

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Watch this game be crappy but get a ****load of goodwill because it's noir :V

[Magus]

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Heavy Rain is getting a lot of goodwill AND IT'S EVEN A GAAAAAAAME

[The_Real_Crunk]

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They show anime on TBS now?

Weird.

[John Mora]

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Tokyo. Broadcasting. Station.

No one's yet to beat Shenmue and Silent Hill 4.





But a noir vidya game?

About time someone attempt one. Been a long time since Snatcher. :V

Forgetting Hotel Dusk, are we?

[Perversion]

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Funny, because at the end of this issue of GI, they listed noir games, and both Snatcher and Max Payne were listed, but not Hotel Dusk.

[Magus]

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Forgetting Hotel Dusk, are we?

...Oops.

[Duel]

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This game is going to be amaaaaazzzzzzzzzzzzzzziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing.

[John Mora]

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This game is going to be amaaaaazzzzzzzzzzzzzzziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing.

[Magus]

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That's such a neutral reaction pic. Surely, you could have done better.

[Duel]

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Are you implying that this game will not be amazing?

[Perversion]

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I'm not sure what he's implying, but I can't tell if that woman is black or Indian.