LA Noire: a game described as ‘very filmlike’

“L.A. Noire” is a video game about a 1940 Los Angeles police detective, described like a film by video game critics and scholars.

According to NPR, Harold Goldberg, the author of “All Your Base Are Belong to Us: How 50 Years of Videogames Conquered Pop Culture” who has been playing the video game repeatedly calls L.A. Noire “very filmlike”.

"It just feels like, you know, anything from Hitchcock to Scorsese," Goldberg was quoted as telling Morning Edition host Renee Montagne, according to NPR.

He asserted: "Feels like being in a film sometimes."

The video game is created by Rockstar Games, the same company that produced Grand Theft Auto. In “La Noire", Rockstar Games recreated Los Angeles allowing players to get a feel of the city on how it was in the late 1940s.

And using old maps and aerial photographs, L.A. Noire said Goldberg makes the players gets taken by the scenes in the games that "sometimes you don't want to leave."

Sharing his own experience, Goldberg recounted how he himself was affected by the movie.

"I ended up in a diner in one of the cases. I kind of wanted to sit there and order pancakes and not continue on my quest to find out why this devious Hollywood producer did what he did," he says, laughing.

The new game L.A. Noire, added Goldberg makes the players feel as if they've stepped into a Raymond Chandler novel, or a noir movie.

L.A. Noire was released May 20 and has been creating abuzz since then. The popular and much-anticipated video game about a detective surrounded by suspects including Hollywood movie producers and crooked cop, was developed by Team Bondi for Rockstar Games and GameRant.com is saying the game’s creators are now considering expanding the performance capture tech to include entire body and see the actors in full costume as they act out each and every action in the game.

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