LA Noire vs Uncharted 3 vs Legend of Zelda SS vs Portal 2 vs Gears of War 3. The world is on all three discs, but with different parts of the story. (It's close to where the body of the Black Dahlia was found.)

Case closed, Donlan style. The reviews maybe good its a sandbox police game, like rockstar are very good in storytelling and quality visuals of games, sometimes it lacks like in-depth features like overdoing features as in grabbing ppl and walking around while having them in your grasps.

'40 Buick, '46 Olds, '39 Dodge. I told dad we'd look for it, but I wasn't optimistic. It would be stupid to lost out on large chunks of sidequests because the game has to jump to the next disc after doing a story mission.

Always love Rockstar.

See? RecommendedCarrion review - an unforgettable monster chews its way out of a solid Metroidvania, RecommendedRaji: An Ancient Epic review - a gorgeous adventure through architecture and myth, Ghost of Tsushima - Mythic Tales locations: Where to find all musicians and get Mythic armour rewards. The city felt...fake (yeah, I know it's a game, but you know what I mean), even with the lively pedestrians and random things that happen. Digital FoundrySuper Mario 3D All-Stars: remasters, emulation - or a mixture of both? 8 sq miles is on the tiny side.

/s lol this game is going to be epic. Rockstar has confirmed that Phelps will not be able to swim. Why shouldn't it happen because of games? Dad told me, cheerfully.

Like any son with a father in his late 60s, I assumed his sudden silence meant he was having a minor cardiac event. will probably play this in a few years time. It all depends on how you use the 8 square miles, though, wouldn't ya say? And LoZ? how can people diagree with these 2 above ?

Woah! Now there are games with huge maps that are still bad like Two Worlds, and the True Crimes games. Intoxicatingly so, I suspect: he thought the streets were wider than he remembered, but he liked the way they were fairly dark, just like the underlit boulevards he knew when he was a kid. GOTY will be LA Noire vs. Uncharted 3 vs. When we finally turned onto 6th, though, he suddenly stopped talking. It probably will be but of course it will get looked over because it is a pc game. It's 2011. Who the hell wants 3 disks?

Here's what he wrote: "Viewing L.A. Noire was an exciting and thoughtful experience. "The guy was getting away," my dad explained to me the other day. Also as the above said, we can already earn trophies and download updates while the network is down. This picture is the map from LA Noire overlaid on a modern map of Los Angeles. go play killzone 3 then since linear corrodor movement is your style. The point is that even the little details often open up the past in interesting ways, keying you into the class issues and the general hierarchy of the period. I was surprised by that. change disc during map exploration?

First this game, then Infamous 2 in June. Well personally speaking I'd take Xenoblade Chronicles over Skyrim as my most anticipated RPG any day.

Even though I can't actually drive, and the car we were in wasn't a real car anyway, I had a strong sense that I was in the front seat, turning the wheel beneath my hands, and he was riding low in the back, face pressed to the glass. History has not recorded all of the details. In the end, however, the whole experience was actually far more affecting, I think, and far more powerful, too. does the truth hurt? I like when games do something different than anyone else, like Heavy Rain. I don't really dig R* games either. All Rights Reserved. I wonder if I'll come down with a mysterious case of the "24 hour flu..." EDIT: I think people saying that 8 square miles is small aren't taking into account that LA has a LOT of streets and blocks within that space.

But he wasn't as good a shot as he thought he was.". or is that just PS3 fanboy shit? I wish I could play it, haven't got the specs though. Itll be interesting to see how rockstar and teambondi used the extra space given from blu ray to see what things are polished and maybe reduced loadtimes too. The little details were the most affecting, though: the tyre-changing bay outside a gas station, or the wooden crate of bottles stacked next to a vending machine. I think some people just like to disagree for giggles. Well, good news Spideynut PSN is coming back up tonight into early morning, depending on your region. From the archive: Chris Donlan plays through L.A. Noire with his dad, who grew up in the city in the 1940s. Digital FoundryMafia: Definitive Edition - impressive tech that sets the stage for next-gen. All consoles tested, plus a look at Hangar 13's cool ray tracing alternative.

When the killer's details were wired back to HQ, my grandfather told his lieutenant that he'd spotted the perp in a bar at Third and Hill, and could go and bag him right there and then - an easy win for the LAPD. Gears 5 recasts Marcus Fenix as Dave Bautista in campaign, Here's when Ghost of Tsushima's Legends Raid goes live. La Noire Los Angeles certainly looks a lot like LA from the 1940-1950 i think. Will rain a hailstorm of fire upon every game it touches. I'm totally gonna drive by it and check out if my apartment complex is there. Today, I'm going to tell you about the time my grandfather shot a man in the ass.

Sounds like Mafia II's Playboys... What a bore... Actually, LA Noire has 40 or so side quests you can complete while doing the main story quests. On the drive, dad kept up a low-level muttering trail of recollections and fiercely specific critiques: the lamps on this bridge were right, but the large dumpsters in alleyways weren't like anything he remembered seeing; a gas station's Coke machine was just perfect, but little skirtings of exposed brickwork around the low walls of vacant lots 'didn't seem very Californian'; this was meant to be 1947? We drove about for another hour or two after that, and by this point Dad was hooked.

Rialto?

Red Dead Redemption was a little better with that. Seriously doubting LoZ. Im lost.. are you another drone that thinks all the data in the world fits in 7gb's via endless compression? "A policeman driving a brand new Chrysler Town and Country is pretty unrealistic," he said, seconds into the game's opening cinematic.

GTAIV really lacked the "extracurricular" activities present in PS2-era GTA titles, and LA Noire sounds like it will be going the way of Mafia 2: 99.9% focus on story, leaving behind a huge open world to take advantage of for side missions and fun distractions. See, one of the things I like about L.A. Noire is how it captures this double nature of the LAPD: the fact that, although they're chasing down perps and getting in wonky fist fights with swarthy men wearing rakish hats, you can never quite decide whether you're siding with the good guys or not. It was never a world-famous edifice, like the bleached white sepulchre of City Hall that dwarfs the surrounding area in the game (in 2012, however, it looks quaint, cruelly hemmed in by glass and steel megastructures), and it wasn't particularly chic, like the Public Library, the pyramid spire of which you can see briefly in the game's opening credits. I know New York looked pretty much the same back then. Duh! It's a lesser make. God of War on PS5 runs at up to 60fps - and progress carries over from PS4, Netflix announces live-action Assassin's Creed series, Grounded's opening up its koi pond for underwater adventure in latest update. I mean, isn't that the point of an open world game? Getting this next week :D Hey does anyone know if you can swim yet? Actually, and forgive a meandering aside, my grandfather was very briefly a semi-famous beat cop. "He used to dismember them and cannibalise them!" The overall map itself is fairly accurate to the portion of Los Angeles that it represents. Killzone 2 and 3 are good games dont insult them, so what your saying is as long as a game has big maps it automatically makes it a better game nope im not seeing it making cod maps bigger wont make it a better game. THe setting of LA Noire doesnt particulary appeal to me but I will still check it out. The paper called him Sergeant Harry "Deadeye" Donlan: The Cop With The Eyes That Never Forget.

You can still earn trophies and download updates even during this temporary downtime! No the story doesn't just involve text files with scripts, voice acting will take up a huge portion of space. its not during exploration its when you start a new case. Open world, yes, but I expect this to guide you more like Mafia 2 and have LA as a backdrop for the story. Legend of Zelda SS and Gears of War 3, HELL NO! So looks like we will have online. But anyway. So it isn't a contender for GOTY 2011 :), I was just starting to forget about the ME3 delay and you bought it back up :(. I hate 100% urban.. anyway this game is good, and must buy for me! But that still doesn't matter because Skyrim is gonna take GOTY no matter what.

I want to know how they are going to split a huge open world on 3 Xbox 360 discs and make it playable. Someone who could truly appreciate the achievement.

Then 8 square miles isn't really of anything to be too overly happy about. I listen to album over 2,3 - 4 discs, it doesn't particularly bother me. What's the name on that oil pump? It is the second yellow rockstar comment on the linked page. First, the map isn't square, it's a diagonal swath. Its black marble and gold leaf exterior hinted at the nature of the geysering fortune that built it, while a weird flattened spire stuck on top served as a reminder that, even as America lurched into the depression, it was willing to spend considerable amounts of cash on follies, just so long as they looked cool enough in the publicity pictures. My GOTY choice is battlefield 3. Zelda could make the cut if it's a good game, because, you know, being a Zelda, being good + being Zelda = being awesome for everyone. "Working for the city, he could never afford it." Sometimes we include links to online retail stores. I believe they actually used aerial photographs from the 1940s to re-create the map. No police cars had whitewalls at all, I think - they were purely for the most affluent. We got out of the car and circled the mass of black marble. Between partying, taking out lady friends, and new games. So Dad shot this guy in the ass.