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Long-Delayed L.A. Noire Gets Trailer, Spring 2011 Release

Posted by Soulskill on from the dark-and-stormy-night dept.

It's been years since the announcement of L.A. Noire, an expansive murder mystery game set in 1940s Los Angeles. After several lengthy delays, Rockstar Games has now posted a trailer and confirmed that the game will release in Spring of 2011. One of the game's major undertakings is to step up the realism of the voice acting and the way characters' faces and bodies are animated, "allowing players to analyze every subtle nuance of an actor's performance in order to get to the truth." The trailer shows in-game footage (though not actual gameplay), and while it's always a good idea to take such displays with a grain of salt, the facial expressions do look pretty realistic.

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  1. I think this about sums it up by QuantumG · · Score: 4, Insightful

    http://i.imgur.com/BITmX.jpg

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    1. Re:I think this about sums it up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      If you ignore the fact that it features a huge sandbox world many times the size of all combined doom levels, and isn't even an FPS, then your point stands! A++ would read again!

  2. Re:Uncanny Valley here we come! by caius112 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The faces do look real, but I am going to have to agree with the uncanny valley crowd here and say that they look creepy.....maybe it looks better on an hd tv than it does in the trailer, but damn those things were creepy.

    It's chiefly because of the terrible (or rather, nonexistent) lighting. Seriously, it looks like global lighting from a 2002 game. I hope it's because it's only an alpha.

  3. i cant tell if real people are lying by aplusjimages · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So how am I supposed to know if a game character is lying? I have to agree that the lighting is oddly non dramatic on the characters.

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  4. Re:Could go 2 ways by Jesus_666 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you want to see how this would work in practice I recommend that you do an image search for "garry's mod".

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  5. Why don't the hats cast shadows on faces? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Took me a minute to twig what didn't quite look right about these - it's the hats, they don't cast shadows onto the faces. Considering the number of people in hats and focus on faces, this does seem quite a blunder. Sure self shadowing objects aren't the simplest of things to implement, however when striving for this level of realism, it's essential.

  6. Re:No PC version. by delinear · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well, let's see how this plays out. These days if a title is "exclusive" to a particular console, it just means it will be released for all other platforms three months later.