L.A. Noire is probably one game that has been getting tremendous attention from the gaming industry long before its release. Rockstar is promising as a developer of games and gaming technology systems that are far more advanced for this game, make it as a standard in the future. But how many people believe? I was initially present as a fairly skeptical person. How can a franchise would beat the great works such as Grand Theft Auto Rockstar and Red Dead Redemption is already proven in the market?

My cynicism immediately struck an all-out when the game arrives at the table. Play at the beginning of the game alone is enough to prove a big way during this Rockstar. They really prove it! Face mapping technology and motion capture are displayed absolutely stunning. For the quality of the graphics and framerate XBOX 360 does not disappoint, although the details a bit lagging in some places. You will feel a sensation like I was watching movies and playing in the film. Acting in the face and voice actingnya makes me unable to say anything else. Imagine if you play it on the PC version (unfortunately there is no confirmation from the Rockstar).

Gameplay impression we get when playing LA Noire, this game brings a new genre, the Crime Investigation. Not just be a style of interactive drama Heavy Rain, Rockstar adapted it in the open-world and the freedom to find a clue. Through facial expressions are, you will be able to find the lies and confrontation of witnesses against them. Gameplay itself is divided into three major sections: investigation, interrogation, and action. L.A. Noire really had bewitched all my views on a game and will be the inevitable standard for games that are born in the future will be.

For a game that carries the murder investigation gameplay, LA Noire has three key elements which may be said to describe the game the whole game, the Investigation, Interrogation, and Action. The third element of this game is to build LA plot Noire is quite complex to be something of interest to continue to be followed. In fact, not infrequently will bring you into it's own Phelps. Every murder case will come in the form of chapters to be completed.

The game takes place in the year 1947 in the city of Los Angeles, a city of glamour, fame, and wealth, but also where crime, vice, and corruption are rife. The player assumes the role of Los Angeles Police Department Officer and later Detective Cole Phelps.The game starts with Phelps as a uniformed patrolman, and follows his career as he advances through the police department bureaus of Traffic, Homicide, Vice and Arson. Instead of missions or levels, the game assigns the player with cases. Each desk gives the player a new partner who will help Phelps in his investigations. After each case, the player will receive a rating of 1-5 stars depending on their performance in both interrogations and searching for clues. When searching an area for clues to the crime, in some cases, players can also find newspapers. Besides reading the story, the newspapers give access to a short cinematic that covers a part of the game's overarching plot or a flashback to Phelps' war memories. Near the end of the final desk, Arson, the player assumes control of Phelps's old Marine comrade Jack Kelso, who becomes the protagonist for the rest of the game; although different in appearance and personality, he controls identically to Phelps.

The game blends investigative elements such as mystery and crime solving, with fast-paced action sequences, including on-foot and car chases, hand-to-hand combat, interrogations and gunfights. In addition to the storyline cases, the player can work on optional side-investigations known as Street Crimes, which are 40 unassigned cases that are not related to the case that you are working on. The player can travel on foot, as well as in various vehicles. The player also has a total of ten detective suits available; an initial six, plus four downloadable ones. The suits are equipped with special abilities, such as increased damage protection.

When the player is interrogating suspects and witnesses, the player must listen to the story that he or she gives. The player will be given the option to either believe them, doubt them or accuse them of lying. (If the player accuses them of lying, the player must have evidence to prove that they're lying.) If the player interrogates two people at the police station, the player will be able to decide who to charge for the crime. The captain's attitude will tell if the player charged the right person.

If the player is having trouble completing an action sequence, after three failed attempts, they will have the option to skip past and continue through the narrative.

Weapons are only allowed in appropriate circumstances and only when a player is working on a case where a weapon is warranted. However, players are allowed to commandeer civilian cars. The game features a free roam mode called "The Streets of L.A.", which is unlocked on completion of a desk. In this mode, players can solve street crimes, search for gold film reels, landmarks and badges (some of which contribute to 100% completion of the game) or just drive around the city.

L.A. Noire follows Cole Phelps (Aaron Staton), an LAPD detective and World War II veteran who is haunted by his actions in the war. Phelps is from San Francisco, California, and is a Stanford University graduate who commissioned into the United States Marine Corps in 1942 after marrying a woman named Marie (Connie Fletcher). He often clashed over matters regarding military procedure with his fellow Marine Jack Kelso (Gil McKinny). The events of L.A. Noire largely take place after the end of the war, following Phelps' career as a police officer, although flashbacks document events during the war which have a direct influence on the present.

Phelps served as a Second Lieutenant in the 6th Marine Division in the Battle of Okinawa. During a battle on Sugar Loaf Hill, he witnessed his fellow Marines being slaughtered by Japanese soldiers. The trauma of this caused Phelps to go into shock and he hid in a fox hole, until Kelso found him the following morning. For his actions, Phelps was awarded the Silver Star and promoted to First Lieutenant, achieving status as a war hero. However, Phelps was branded a coward by his fellow Marines. Phelps was shamed by the event, and became determined to prove himself.

Near the end of the battle, Phelps was given orders to clear out any houses or caves that might be housing Japanese soldiers. Phelps and his unit came upon a large cave that he suspected to be holding soldiers, and he requisitioned a flamethrower from another squad in order to clear it out, wanting to "do it by the numbers". Flamethrower Corporal Ira Hogeboom was assigned to incinerate the cave. Upon investigation, Phelps and his squad realized the cave was a makeshift medical hospital for wounded Japanese civilians. Phelps, he and his squad in a panic, ordered the execution of the civilians to "put them out of their misery." Pushed to the breaking point by Cole's orders, medic Private Courtney Sheldon shot Cole in the back. Kelso ordered for Phelps to be taken to an Army field hospital and then told the men to never speak about the event.

The game begins with Phelps on the Patrol Desk at the Wilshire Division 7 Police Station as a new member of the Los Angeles Police Department in Los Angeles, California, in 1947, investigating a murder with his new partner, Officer Ralph Dunn (Rodney Scott). After catching the killer, Phelps discovers a pay-out notebook, which contains the name of the Homicide detective in charge of the case, Floyd Rose, whom the two dislike. Phelps decides not to reveal this, even though he thinks that the detective might be corrupt, and continues to work as a patrolman. After successfully interrogating a murder suspect and bringing him to justice, Captain Donnelly (Andrew Connelly) of the Homicide Desk gives Cole a promotion to the Traffic Desk.

Now a detective, Phelps receives his new partner, Detective Stefan Bekowsky (Sean McGowan). The two solve a case involving a man who faked his own death, catch a double-homicide suspect involved in a hit-and-run, and finally bring to justice a film producer responsible for statutory rape and attempted murder. Phelps is then promoted to the Burglary Desk. Phelps also meets the corrupt Vice Desk Detective Roy Earle on the desk, who introduces Cole to an emotionally damaged German lounge singer, Elsa Lichtmann (Erika Heynatz), at a Hollywood jazz club.

After six months at Burglary (A desk cut from the game during development), Phelps is once again promoted, this time to Homicide, where he and his new veteran and old school partner, Detective Finbarr "Rusty" Galloway (Michael McGrady), solve a series of very similar and gruesome murders committed by a serial killer: the same man who killed Elizabeth Short in The Black Dahlia murder that same year. At first, Galloway believes all the murders to have been committed by the victim's husband or boyfriend, suspecting that each is only a copy-cat of the previous, with no connection at all. Finally, however, they realize, after arresting five innocent men, that the murders were committed by the same man. The two track him to an abandoned church catacombs, following a trail of notes and clues left by the killer. They discover the killer is one of the bartenders Cole spoke with while investigating one of the first murders, who strung the two along. Once he is killed, Captain Donnelly dismisses the case and releases the innocent quietly, explaining that the killer is a relative of one of the most powerful politicians in the country, and releasing the information could cause a massive scandal.

Phelps is then promoted to the Vice Desk. He and his new partner, corrupt Chief Detective Roy Earle (Adam Harrington), succeed in halting Los Angeles's government-issued morphine and marijuana drug trade, and bringing down several drug dealers, including associates of real-life mobster Mickey Cohen. However, Phelps's past comes back to haunt him when a U.S. Marine from his former unit is found brutally murdered. Phelps discovers many of his former squad members are being assassinated as well, and after meeting with his old comrade, Jack Kelso, Phelps deduces that the men in his unit were selling morphine on the street after stealing a large supply from the U.S.S. Coolridge, the ship that carried the unit back to Los Angeles at the end of World War II. The men are being killed by the mob, who currently controls the drug trade and refuse to have competition. At the same time, Phelps begins an extramarital affair with Elsa. Because of the corrupt actions taken by the LAPD, Roy agrees to disclose Phelps' affair to get the public eye away from the corrupt members of city hall and the LAPD, including the mayor, police chief, and himself. Because of this, prior to the revealing of the drug trade by the members of his former unit, Phelps is removed from the case, suspended, and later demoted to Arson.

On the Arson Desk, Phelps partners with cynical World War I veteran Herschel Biggs (Keith Szarabajka), an expert on fires. Trying to reattain his former glory, Phelps investigates a series of house fires which he believes to be caused by an arsonist working for a company called Elysian Fields Development. Elysian Fields is running a program known as "The Suburban Redevelopment Fund," which hopes to build houses for homecoming American servicemen while obtaining more land. However, many of the houses made by the Suburban Redevelopment Fund keep burning down, and Phelps believes that Elysian Fields is behind the fires as part of an insurance scam.

Initially, Phelps makes progress with Herschel on the case, but he is warned off by Roy Earle, who is on the Elysian payroll. Realizing there is no way to investigate further by himself, Phelps manages to get Jack Kelso to work with him and Herschel, Kelso having become an insurance investigator for California Fire and Life. Through their work, they manage to not only topple Elysian Fields, but also the morphine case from Vice (the money made from selling the morphine was being invested in the Suburban Redevelopment Fund.) They also discover that the Suburban Redevelopment Fund is much more than an insurance scam. It is a scam in which poorly-built houses are overly insured by California Fire and Life, then cleared to make way for a new highway, resulting in complete recompense for the owners and a turnover of millions of dollars for the members of the fund. Eventually, Kelso finds out that the identity of the mysterious arsonist is Ira Hogeboom, the flamethrower in Phelps's squad. After the war, Hogeboom suffered from extreme guilt and mental anguish due to his actions in the war. Elysian used him as an arsonist, but he eventually got out of control, burning down houses that he was not told to burn and sometimes with the families still in the house. Hogeboom believed that by burning houses, he was helping people be together, and uniting them with God faster.

While hunting down the arsonist, Kelso finds out that Hogeboom has taken Elsa to the Los Angeles River Tunnels where he is trying to hide. Phelps and Kelso race to the River Tunnels and fight their way through corrupt policemen and thugs trying to stop all of them from uncovering the Suburban Redevelopment Fund scam. Due to a heavy rain, the waters in the sewer continue to rise to a dangerously high level. Eventually, they find Hogeboom and Elsa hiding from the thugs in the tunnels. Phelps, Kelso, and Elsa flee from the tunnels after Kelso puts Hogeboom out of his misery. Eventually, the trio finds an open manhole that Hershel uses to lift Elsa up from the surface. As the water begins to rise, Phelps voluntarily lifts Kelso to the surface as well; as there is no one else to help Phelps, he says a final goodbye to his comrades as a current sweeps him away, killing him.

A few days later, Phelps' funeral and memorial service takes place and all of Phelps' partners attend along with Kelso, Elsa, and his ex-wife and children. As Roy Earle delivers the eulogy, it is shown that many of the corrupt police officers and politicians are in attendance. Elsa stands up and berates Earle for belittling Cole's memory before storming out. Herschel tells Kelso that Kelso was never Cole's friend. Kelso replies that they were also never enemies. Hershel tells him that Cole knew that and then leaves to go after Elsa.

An end credits sequence shows the members of the Sixth Platoon on the way home from Japan on the USS Coolridge, during which Courtney Sheldon encourages his fellow Marines to participate in the morphine theft. While reading the paper, the soldiers learn of Cole's success as a police officer, and become jealous that they are not thought of as heroes. Kelso tells the other Marines that no matter how anyone else views them, he will always remember them as heroes, but if they steal the morphine and go down a path of crime, they will become nothing in his eyes. Unfortunately, the theft goes as planned, laying the foundation for much of the following story.