- Whodunit? Rockstar, again -
Imagine a videogame set inside a Raymond Chandler novel, or the post-war Los Angeles depicted in classic film noirs from Double Indemnity to L.A. Confidential. That is precisely the concept behind L.A. Noire (for PS3 and Xbox 360), the newest title from Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption creators Rockstar Games (in conjunction with Australian studio Team Bondi).
A rare entry in the genre we like to call Not-A-First-Person-Shooter-and -Not-A-Sequel (or NAFPSNAS for short), L.A. Noire invites players to take on the role of rookie LAPD detective Cole Phelps and assist him in solving a series of crimes that occur throughout a detailed re-creation of 1947 Los Angeles. With Metascores hovering around 90 as we write this, the game will likely finish the year among the highest-scoring releases of 2011 for both platforms, though not quite at GTA IV or Red Dead Redemption levels (which were 98 and 95, respectively).
So what exactly did critics like and dislike about this major new release? Let’s find out …
Before GTA 5 and RDR2 took the world by storm, Rockstar Games stole Need for Speed’s thunder with the racing game Midnight Club 2.
According to a new report, Rockstar Games has asked writers on GTA 6 -- the next installment in the Grand Theft Auto series -- to be "less crude" toward transgender people and other minorities.
One of the main points of this series was that it made fun of everyone and no one was spared.
Where will the humour be.
Does this really surprise anyone?
I just hope the writers tell them no. Comedy should NEVER be censored.
Either everything is off limits, or nobody is. This is stupid. And there's a reason there has been a ton of backlash by comedians lately.
How cruel has any Minorites? Rockstar is being clever to act like this will be the woe and not their lack of ambition.
In a time when Rockstar has forgotten everything else except GTA and RDR, it's about time the developer got back to some of its gems.
Wonder what happened to the leaked medieval game that they were working on ... hope that's still on going and gets released sometime after GTA VI
eh wat?
its been on "break" for 11 years now ha 5 came out literally 11 years ago
Seeing as how it's been like 12yrs between releases, i don't think taking even more time is a good decision for the series
So make one GTA every human generation instead of every other console generation?
Come on...