[Chloe Botham]

I got the game and I played it for about an hour. So far, its awesome. I like playing as a cop and having to be good. Also the interviewing process, wow. I'm loving it.

[Victor Oropeza]

GotY anyone?

[Kira! :)))]

Can anyone tell me the length of time you spend as a uniformed officer?

Can you drink alcohol to help combat the likely case of P.T.S.D the dude suffers from?

[Caroline flitcroft]

How short is it?

You can beat it in a day.

[HARDHEAD]

You can beat it in a day.

lol good thing i didn't buy, i will rent this though.

[HARDHEAD]

You can beat it in a day.

Achievement/Trophy wise, how long would it take to a Platinum? Are they difficult?

[Deon Knight]

You can beat it in a day.

I thought they said it would take 20-30 hours to complete?

[Mr. Allen]

I thought they said it would take 20-30 hours to complete?

If you do the 40 street crime cases and get all the collectables sure. Considering I bought the game (especially to help make it a success so R* will feel safer about risks) I'm definitely planning on 100% everything. I haven't beat it yet though, I just got to Homicide.

[Connie Thomas]

I completely agree. I can't play GTA because the characters disgust me. Where I like RDR because John Marston is a character you can identify with more with and actually like playing as. I don't know about Phelps yet, he seems a little too generic. I liked a lot more noir cops in movies right off the bat than Cole.

Yeah, call me crazy but theres something about playing a drug dealing, prosttute killing, cop shooting thug that I can't get into :shrug: plus with franchises like GTA and Saints Row it's about damn time you play the other side of the law for once.

[laila hassan]

You can beat it in a day.

Even though the Team Bondi said it was 25+ hours?

[Jade Barnes-Mackey]

You can beat it in a day.

If you just took a day devoted to playing the games main story, yes you could beat it in a day.

I have been doing a lot of the side cases and playing around, so I have not gotten too far into the story.

[Jeff Turner]

Does anyone know if you can still play after the main case is solved?

[FABIAN RUIZ]

You can always rent it again

From where? SO many rental places are going out of business, there are literally none left within a 20 mile radius of my house. Besides I consider my self a true gamer and collector, so I enjoy owning things and just merely borrowing them.

GotY anyone?

I would say so, well in terms of it getting a GOTY version.GOTY awards however, a little too linear and a bit too much hand holding.

You can beat it in a day.

Yea if you spent 20 hours playing it, you can beat most games in a day.

[R.I.p MOmmy]

I hit a pretty annoying lgitch which gave me no choice but to redo the case I had worked on for a good 30 minutes.

[LittleMiss]

I hit a pretty annoying lgitch which gave me no choice but to redo the case I had worked on for a good 30 minutes.

What glitch?

[vanuza]

What glitch?

Minor spoiler

Spoiler

I was on a case investigating a murdered woman and one of the last places she was seen was at her kids school but before I stopped there I was called by the captain to head to the highschool and talk to the janitor. So after finishing that my only option was to canvas the high school as I had already done everything.The school itself was locked and there was no investigation music going on anywhere around the school.

[Rhysa Hughes]

Minor spoiler

Spoiler

I was on a case investigating a murdered woman and one of the last places she was seen was at her kids school but before I stopped there I was called by the captain to head to the highschool and talk to the janitor. So after finishing that my only option was to canvas the high school as I had already done everything.The school itself was locked and there was no investigation music going on anywhere around the school.

Hopefully there's a patch. The highschool and other buildings are free to enter at any time?

[A Boy called Marilyn]

Minor spoiler

Spoiler

I was on a case investigating a murdered woman and one of the last places she was seen was at her kids school but before I stopped there I was called by the captain to head to the highschool and talk to the janitor. So after finishing that my only option was to canvas the high school as I had already done everything.The school itself was locked and there was no investigation music going on anywhere around the school.

There was a green car there that you look into.

[kat no x]

There was a green car there that you look into.

I did but I got no response even when I turned the clue notification music back on.

[Del Arte]

Hopefully there's a patch. The highschool and other buildings are free to enter at any time?

No only the doors with gold handle can be entered.

[Nick Tyler]

No only the doors with gold handle can be entered.

You can only go into the highschool during that investigation?

[Lucie H]

You can only go into the highschool during that investigation?

I believe so.

[Nicholas C]

I believe so.

Lame.

[maddison]

Does anyone know if you can still play after the main case is solved?

You can replay a case, but there is no sandbox or freeplay mode. All gameplay occurs within the context of the cases.

Minor spoiler

Spoiler

I was on a case investigating a murdered woman and one of the last places she was seen was at her kids school but before I stopped there I was called by the captain to head to the highschool and talk to the janitor. So after finishing that my only option was to canvas the high school as I had already done everything.The school itself was locked and there was no investigation music going on anywhere around the school.

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Spoiler

There aren't any bugs. Talk to the janitor, run down the pervert, open the trunk of the green car. Your just missing what you're supposed to be doing. You should get a gold butterfly brooch from the pervert, and find blood stained overalls, tire iron, and rope in the trunk. Your not supposed to be looking through the school.

Anyway, I just beat it. I have to say that anyone looking for an RDR or GTA experience is going to be dissapointed. Doing well in L.A. Noire is mostly about doing well in searching areas and interviewing subjects. Though to be quite honest there is little penalty for failure. The action sequences are actually skippable if you screw up enough times on them. As for the interviews and cases, most of the time, things manage to work out even if you screwed up on a witness or two, and while you get a stern talking too for choosing the wrong the perp in cases involving multiple suspects, there is little actual penalty since A) the game progresses anyway, and B. Your boss knows you charged the wrong guy and charges the right one.

As for the quality of the action sequences, they are worse then GTA or RDR. Any guns better then your .45 handgun have to be acquired on site and have limited ammo before you have to pick up another one. You also don't get to keep them between cases. There's also several annoying or otherwise arbitrary restricitions, like the game sometimes forcing you to tackle a suspect rather then firing your gun into the air. (tackling and warning shots are the two non-combat ways to subdue subjects, but you can only do one or the other in a particular chase sequence) You also can't draw your gun on your volition, and must wait for the game to draw it for you.

L.A. Noire is filled with cutscenes, and I felt that control was being taken away from me a few too many times during my playthrough. L.A. Noire's gameplay consists of entirely interviews, property searches, and the occasional combat sequence or chase seperated by tons of cutscenes.While it certainly does the "cinematic" approach better then MGS4 (Largely because of the inverviews that make up a massive portion of gameplay), ultimately I was reminded of why I don't like the cinematic approach in games.

Ultimately, L.A. Noire has a very good storyline, interviews are challenging and property searches are time consuming, but combat and chase sequences are sub-par and it feels at times like the game is rail-roading you. I wouldn't reccomend L.A. Noire to anyone looking for a game like RDR or GTA, but it's certainly worth a rent if you've got the time.

[Natalie Taylor]

Nice write up DarthRavanger, thanks. So you can't ready your weapon whenever you want?