L.A. Noire: Rockstar's latest is a black & white mystery

by James Ransom-Wiley { Sep 25th 2006 at 8:25PM }

Rockstar has unveiled L.A. Noire, a period piece developed by Team Bondi, a new Australian studio founded by Brendan McNamara (The Getaway). Set in 1940's L.A. (before the freeways), L.A. Noire explores a series of gruesome murders through the eyes of, we assume, a detective.

We've eyed a 37-second teaser, which sweeps through an eventless urban street scene, while a horn whines a sleepy jazz tune. We suspect, like The Getaway, Noire will be less open-ended than GTA and will rely on cinematic elements to keep gamers interested. While billed as a "next-generation" title, Rockstar has not specified platforms.

Tags: L.A. Noire, L.a.Noire, Rockstar, Rockstar Games, RockstarGames, Team Bondi, TeamBondi, The Getaway, TheGetaway

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Wulkar @ Sep 25th 2006 8:46PM

so where is this teaser video?

i want to see it.

Ben @ Sep 25th 2006 8:57PM

This could be really good. As a big fan of Phillip Marlowe, I would love to see this done correctly. Here's hoping.

Galls @ Sep 25th 2006 8:55PM

hmmmm reminds me of max payne. NEED MORE PAIN KILLERS

cheese @ Sep 25th 2006 9:02PM

too bad they didn't just license the Sin City property and do it up like that. Methinks this is sort of a take on that genre/style. Ought to be cool though

J B Cougar @ Sep 25th 2006 9:07PM

Hmm. Kind of like Sadness?

rainking187 @ Sep 25th 2006 9:51PM

What? Could it be? A Rockstar game that doesn't suck? ...no, probably not.

sienar @ Sep 25th 2006 9:54PM

@ cheese

Cause we all know Sin City created the noir genre. And this type of film certainly wasn't popular in the late 40's-1950's

XxOMGHEYxX @ Sep 25th 2006 10:10PM

Err...sorry to tell you this Joystiq...

But L.A. Noire has been a known PS3 project for about a year now.

o_O;;

Go to the official site.

It will tell you it is a PS3 site.

So will ever other major gaming site (Gamespot, IGN, etc.)

Yeahhhhhhhhhhh..might want to edit that.

Scott @ Sep 25th 2006 11:25PM

Hooray for more Aussie developers. We need more of them. It was an Aussie studio that developed both Dark Reign games too... cant think of any others off the top of my head.

Adam @ Sep 26th 2006 4:32AM

aussie! aussie! aussie! oi! oi! oi!

Must be a bit of a trend now - check out the trailer of this movie (also black & white/noire)

http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/renaissance/hd/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_(film)

matthew @ Sep 26th 2006 6:05AM

Wow those guys came to my uni (when i was in uni) about 3 years ago, all they showed were some old american photos and said they werent allowed to talk about the ps3 much but were developing for it, they havent changed the name since then which is the only reason i remembered it

OtakuCODE @ Sep 26th 2006 12:04PM

Great, first Rockstar unleaches brutal killers on the world with GTA. Then they breed an infection that rips through the public turning everyone into amazing ping pong players. Soon they're going to cause massive school murder/suicide crimes. Then they're going to come out with this and either suck the very COLOR out of our universe, or send us all BACK IN TIME!

Jack, where are you?!