Be prepared for fist-fights and pursuits on foot, because some of the guilty ones won’t go down without a fight, or if necessary, a bullet though their body. Most of the lies come from looking at their eye movements, but you can never really tell for sure.įailing to get your suspect’s statements straight can result in a deviation of the storyline, a poorer performance on your case or even lead to the arrest of the wrong guy. MotionScan then allows players to pickup any eye-roll or nervous twitch your suspect or witness may make, allowing you to deduce if they’re telling the truth or spewing a flat-out lie. Missing any detail could lead to you giving a false accusation, which will irk your “interrogatee”. Questioning involves your deduction of truth, doubts or lies.
Rockstar Games picked up a new technology called MotionScan, a complex series of cameras used to capture every angle of an actual cast member’s face, producing accurate facial graphics not seen since games like Heavy Rain. All this information is stored in your handy-dandy notebook, the most useful tool you’ll have in the game. Other times will have you interrogating suspects and witnesses, a key part in playing in L.A. The game will ‘ping’ to your attention any suspicious item around the scene can be picked up and observed, handing you addresses or names in order to take you on your next lead. First, you sweep the crime scene which, in most cases, involve a gruesome corpse (some of which I wasn’t prepared to look at) in a crime scene littered with evidence and clues. Noire has its share of action sequences, the game is mainly a logic-based crime fiction puzzler, needing you to fit the pieces together to bring the perpetrator to justice. Players seeking tough-as-nails action may be disappointed.
You’re one of the good guys, fresh out of the war and on the mean streets of Los Angeles, that is, the real, historically-accurate Los Angeles, not some parodic representation, and work your way as Detective Cole Phelps through various cases up to the traffic desk, homicide and so on. The key difference? You play a detective for the LAPD. It’s still an open-world adventure game, you can still get into cars and drive around and you shoot your gun at people. Noire is not your average Rockstar Games’ game.
Oh, by the way, someone will need to clean up that mess. A time when gasoline was 23 cents by the gallon, everyone wore hats and people were found murdered on every street corner.