February 11th, 2010

L.A. Noire information revealed

Published at 2:00 PM PST

Gouda Jouji from metalgealsolid.org has post scans of his copy of this month's GameInformer which features screenshots and information about L.A. Noire. We've summed up the information below. Keep checking back as we will be updating this article with more information and screenshots from the magazine.

- You play as Cole Phelps who is voiced by Aaron Staton
- Set in the 1940's
- Largest and most detailed open-world ever
- Team Bondi is using a facial animation capture system by Depth Analysis
- 2,000 pages of script for the game (compare that to the average 200 pages for a movie)
- Over 140 interiors
- Almost a complete copy of Los Angeles in the 1940's
- Over 300 actors and actresses used in L.A. Noire
- You can inspect crime scene elements (ex: wallets, purses, bags, etc) and any information you find will be written in a notebook
- Over 90% of the cases in the game are from real life incidents

Source: metalgearsolid.org