LA Noire 'first trailer' is here, coming 'Spring 2011'

@Ashkental

The Cheat is to the limit, everybody come on Fhqwhgads!!!!

@Ashkental

Are you pumping ya lazers instead of charging 'em now?

@nighttime you made me lol

Can we also get a GTA with hats?
I like hats.

@nighttime
Why hats work. Look at TF2.

@Indefinite Implosion

San Andreas let you put a hat on didn't it.

How about Red Dead Redemption with cars?

@aughscreennames

lol that works too

@Hawaii Jeff It makes me thirsty for a nice Peanut Norre with mah Linguine.

@Hawaii Jeff Maybe they're referring to both the noir genre and the note noire? :P

@Hawaii Jeff

Technically you can't misspell a proper title or name. After that though if you're still crying

Mortal Kombat, Pursuit of Happyness, Inglorious Basterds, anything JRPG that really isn't a word (show me Revenant, Dissidia, Undiscovery... Point being, there's a lot of other things to be angry about with shittier titles.

@Hawaii Jeff
Odds are that L.A. Noir with correct spelling was already copyrighted somewhere

@BigE4284

I think that was before they decided that Sony hadn't money hatted this game enough, so they decided to go multi-platform with it.

@d3sc3nd3ncy

Not this again. LA Noire was never a Sony funded PS3 exclusive. Thats been a huge misconception for a long time. The Sony funded PS3 exclusive (in exchange for letting T2 & R* out of the GTA IV exclusivity deal) is a game called Agent.

Either way ... This game is shaping up awesome.

@Johnnynumber5 is powered by cell

actually you are wrong...it was proven a while ago that Sony let Rockstar take over L.A Noir only because they offered to make Agent. GTA4 has nothing to do with any of this.Sony had sunk over 20 million into L.A Noir without results so when Rockstar decided to take over, Sony asked for an exclusive rather than money... Sony was the first publisher....even Game Informer said so...

That said im wondering if a third party exclusive from Rockstar is better than a First party exclusive with new amazing tech. I think they made a good choice.

@Mkis007
(June 2007)
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/07/28/rockstar-bringing-new-franchise-exclusively-to-ps3/

Geoff Keighly: "Everyone is wondering why PS3 lost GTA IV as an exclusive." It turns out there is another part to the story which Jack exclusively reveals to (inaudible). Is there any frustration that Grand Theft Auto IV is not exclusive .....

Jack Tretton: What we're really excited about is the next great franchise from Take 2. And in exchange for letting them out of that exclusivity [ for GTA IV] we've got the rights to the next great franchise from Take 2, exclusive.

Geoff Keighly: Is that LA Noire or what is it?

Jack Tretton: It is a title to yet be determines ... thats the beauty.

Geoff Keighly: So they had to negotiate with you guys to get out of the exclusivity deal for Grand Theft Auto IV?

Jack Tretton: I don't know that it was necessarily a negotiation, we did some good things for them and they did a lot of great things for us. They had interest in bringing it [GTA IV] multiplatform, we respected that and we said ... you know, we certainly have no problem with that but we'd sure like to keep this relationship going and get our hands on the next great franchisefrom you guys.

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Shortly After in June of 2007:
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6175813.html

The developer that did so much for the PlayStation 2 with the Grand Theft Auto series looks set to bring an all-new game franchise to the PlayStation 3.

A totally new game franchise will be coming from Rockstar Games--creator of the Manhunt and Grand Theft Auto series--and it will be exclusive to Sony's PlayStation 3.

SCEA's director of third-party relations, Michael Shorrock, wrote on the official US PlayStation blog, "As part of our long standing relationship with Rockstar, and the incredible success for both companies with the cultural icon that is Grand Theft Auto we've agreed to the PlayStation exclusive rights of the next great franchise from the Rockstar studios."

**********Nothing whatsoever was revealed about the new franchise except the clarification that it would not be LA Noire. **********
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(skip ahead to 2009)

http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/696089/e3-2009-sony-press-conference-sony-announces-agent-from-rockstar.html

E3 2009 Sony Press Conference: Sony Announces Agent From Rockstar

After touting past PlayStation exclusives from Rockstar games, Sony's CEO Jack Tretton announced a new, PS3-only game coming from Rockstar. Agent is in development at Rockstar North and features a gritty, 1970s setting.
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Pretty well sums that up.

@BigE4284 The first trailer was what made me fall in love with this game. I honestly didn't really dig the new one, needs more jazz and chases!

@Johnnynumber5 is powered by cell

Funny cause game informer had a more recent interview with the developer (2010). And cover story....they got a question if it was ps3 exclusive and they said ...originally it was ... thats them talking directly to the games creative director.

Then there was a bunch of anonymous posts about the state of the game... i believe game informer over any of those websites...especially casue they got the world exclusive first story... most of that talk Tretton gave seemed like he didnt want to outright say GTA4 was originally going to be ps3 exclusive

@mkis007

theres also the fact that a while ago Rockstar had to send someone to Bondi to calm them down because porting over to the 360 would take a miracle...something about squeazing it all onto the 360...which means it was originally developed as a ps3 exclusive... this stuff is all directly from the Team Bondi...quotes over the past year...THEY ARE RECREATING LA! think True crime but way more detailed

@Mkis007

You can believe what you want but I'll take the word of Sony's president and CEO that LA Noire was not the game given in exchange for letting Take2 out of the GTA IV exclusivity deal.

I provided facts and links ... you provided anecdotes from a magazine article you are recalling of the top of your head.

Let me state this clearly: LA Noire was a never a Sony funded PS3 exclusive. LA Noire was not the exclusive Sony got in exchange for letting Rockstar out of the GTA IV exclusivity deal. Period.

@Jack Kevorkian If ever a game engine needed to be run into the ground it's RAGE with Euphoria. They could remake this in the civil war, feudal Japan, or just cavemen scavenging for food and I'd still be entertained and probably buy the DLC.

@Jack Kevorkian So you've played this game already? Neat.

@Jack Kevorkian

I have been saying this for a long time, still getting over Grand Theft Horse payola.

@Jack Kevorkian

LA Noire is not about the "mafia beginnings."

@glamajamma

...on your PC. Loaded just fine in Chrome for me.

@glamajamma

Loaded fine in Chrome for me too.

@rahnyc4 Mafia 2 was a boring "open world" shooter. LA Noire will be all about detective work, analyzing crime scenes, interrogating suspects, etc.

@rahnyc4

no offence but it's not like mafia 2 at all, for one the characters don't look like they're chewing wasps when they speak

@rahnyc4

Breaking news:

Things that don't interest you, might interest other people.

@rahnyc4 lets make every game like every other game that would be awesome yah?

@rahnyc4

It appears they are making an open-world game of LA Confidential.

While I loved that movie I was expecting this to be a PI detective story. A Sam Spade or Mike Hammer. Cops are boring now, give me a hard-boiled PI with a quick fist and a way with the dames. Multiple cases and problems to solve, not GTA:1940PD.

@rahnyc4
Sure it's like Maria 2, if it's made by a real talented game developer with a penchant for great storytelling.

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze

Breaking news - people have opinions on the Internet.

@rahnyc4 Oh... so, I take it you've played LA Noire then? yeah... that's what I thought.

@prodigy69

indeed! Excellent lip synch!

@prodigy69 Yeah this is some next-gen shit going on. I didn't expect this kind of lip-sync until the true next-gen began (in like 2014). I'm stoked for this!

@prodigy69

I think the idea is that you'll be able to tell whether or not people are lying by reading their faces, so they worked really hard on facial animations.

@prodigy69

It actually looks kind of bizarre and jarring. The lip syncing and facial animations are second to none, but that coupled with the slightly clunky character models and washed out color palette makes for a strangely unsettling mix. It's certainly impressive, but also creepily uncanny.

@heypaul

Yeah, the facial animations are definitely deep in the uncanny valley for me, at least at this point in development.