Zero Punctuation: L.A. Noire

[Tiger Sora]

Robot crime detective...... *Sigh* Well I'll get a garbage bag for all the torn off limbs.

 

[duchaked]

fascinating...lol anyway, it's definitely something I wanna play...when I have time...which is now I suppose but when I find a way that's not buying or renting (for like 3 weeks) it cuz I'm spending wayy too much on games this summer x.X

 

[Falseprophet]

I hate to be 'that guy', but Noire is the feminine form of the work, Noir being the masculine (he brought it up in the credit comments).

Sounds reasonable. But does it make sense in the game title? I thought it was supposed to be a reference to "film noir."

I think Los Angeles/L.A. is feminine, as are all cities in the French language, IIRC.

 

[plugav]

I do not know how much truth there is to this but I recall that the extra "e" was just a programming error they just went with...

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2010/01/rumour-la-noires-development-more-of-a-mess-than-wed-imagined-rockstar/

Wow, there's a fun piece of trivia.

I think Los Angeles/L.A. is feminine, as are all cities in the French language, IIRC.

That would make sense, but it would also make the game's title translate as "Black L.A.," which seems a bit strange.

 

[MB202]

Is it just me, or does Yahtzee's depiction of Cole Phelps in this review look like Inspector Gadget?

 

[UnravThreads]

I think Los Angeles/L.A. is feminine, as are all cities in the French language, IIRC.

I'm pretty sure Los Angeles is Spanish, not French.

 

[Grampy_bone]

The ending credit joke was hilarious.

 

[Tradjus]

Like most other people my major complaint about L.A Noire is the fact that what you're doing most of the time doesn't matter, the shooting is fun sure, but if you die you get a game over and reload to your last checkpoint, so why the hell don't you just reload too your last checkpoint if you fuck up an interrogation so bad there's no way the guy could ever reasonably be charged with the crime?

 

[WanderingFool]

I cant help but feel that Yahtzee will never find a game he loves... besides Saints Row 2...

 

[Zhukov]

Wait... a flamethrower?

Really?

Someone enlighten me here, does that actually happen or was that just a joke?

 

[Evilbunny]

Why was ZP so late today? It's a...
*puts on sunglasses*
mystery
YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH

I think your avatar really made the joke for me there.

 

[Macrobstar]

I cant help but feel that Yahtzee will never find a game he loves... besides Saints Row 2...

And silent hill 2... and prince of persia... and batman arkham asylum.... and portal 1 & 2

 

[scienceguy8]

Quite frankly, I think a car mounted on top of another car would be the greatest form of transportation ever concieved by man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5xd97HeY70

enjoy

As much as I enjoy Top Gear, as soon as I heard car on top of another car I thought of something a little different.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxaKk98wKik

 

[Kopikatsu]

Wait... a flamethrower?

Really?

Someone enlighten me here, does that actually happen or was that just a joke?

That actually happens.

It's even in the ESRB rating. "BEWARE! FLAMETHROWER VIOLENCE!"

 

[DarkhoIlow]

Liked how you compared Cole Phelps with a robot,pretty funny and good review.

Looking forward to see Witcher 2 next week(hopefully).

 

[AsianMafiaSin]

Sorry, but Madness 10 was so much better

 

[twm1709]

Amazingly, this nowhere near the most vicious review I've read today about this game. But as usual, it's the most hilarious one

 

[Yopaz]

After watching this I will consider getting it. It actually seemed like he liked it to some extent. Sadly it's not for PC...

 

[Kenjitsuka]

Well worth the extra wait!
Coal, we hardly knew ye.

Ooh, I hear there's a Serious Sam 3 trailer out today.
Hope Yahtzee's cold obsidian hard get's a bit warmer because of it. ;-)

 

[cefm]

As I recall, Sierra did an detective investigation game based on Bladerunner in the early/mid 1990's that basically ran into all of these issues as well, but was a cool game nonetheless. I am disappointed that the guys at Rockstar were unable to do better than a 20 year old game.