L.A. Noire

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L.A. Noire
89

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 20 expert reviews
  • Excellent:
    15
  • Good:
    3
  • Average:
    1
  • Bad:
    1
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Expert reviews and ratings

85

Almost six months later and Team Bondi's film noir inspired crime thriller, L.A. Noire, comes to the PC having dazzled critics and gamers on the home consoles back in May. We play as Cole Phelps, now an officer of the Los Angeles PD having returned...

By Strategy Informer on
61

It reeks of console port, but fun may still be...

By Atomic MPC on
85

Noticeably repetitive gameplay moments aside, L.A. Noire offers a different and delightful take on the open-world formula that Rockstar’s refined over the years. You can explore the world if you want, but I love how focused the story is, that you can...

By ign.com on
88

L.A. Noire is a game of extremes that shifts in pace as it takes you from the leisurely pursuit of casually cruising the sun-soaked streets of Los Angeles in the luxury of your 1941 Pontiac Torpedo Six, to raising your anxiety levels by tasking you...

By HEXUS.net on
88

L.A. Noire, a film-noir-inspired detective game from Sydney-based Team Bondi, is set in a dark, gritty, exquisitely detailed mid-century Los Angeles. Nixon ads hang between landmarks like the RKO Theatre and the Mayfair Hotel as crimson-lipped women...

By theglobeandmail.com on
70

You walk down dark alleys carrying a flashlight. You drive 70-year-old cars with sirens that sound like Civil Defence alarms. You watch beautiful women perform sad songs and listen to smooth jazz on the radio. Your name is Cole Phelps, and you’re...

By PCWorld New Zealand on
88

Welcome to Los Angeles in the 1940s. The brand new game LA Noire is made by the makers of, arguably, the most popular game of 2010 – Red Dead Redemption. And while this game has excellent graphics, does it stack up to one of our editor's views?Ashton...

By techgeek.com.au on
90

L.A. Noire, an action adventure game from the people who brought us GTA, is not your usual videogame fare. More exploration and discovery than run and gun, you play most of the game as a rookie detective freshly returned from a harrowing wartime...

By Gadget Guy Australia on
90

Dramatically and thematically, LA Noire ticks all the boxes of a perfect crime fiction story. The hard-boiled, gritty take on post-war America resembles the crime works of Faulkner and Chandler, with the 21st century edge of LA Confidential.Just as LA...

By Smarthouse on
100

With the fourth season of Mad Men frustratingly delayed, The Wire's riddles long solved, and not even Steve Buscemi's suits able to raise the so-so Boardwalk Empire to the Sopranos-rivalling titan moored, it's undeniably time for a new...

By T3 Magazine on