VIDEO: LA Noire in 5 Seconds & 40 Minutes

Posted by Matt Hawkins on May 30th, 2011 at 12:00 pm

First things first, the entire 20 hour plus game can be easily distilled in less than ten second. Don’t believe? Well, just watch the following...

Though the real appeal of the game is the rather boring-ass cases that begin to become indistinguishable from each other after a while, due to virtually every single one involving one murdered dame after another (who also all look alike… and speaking of looks, man, for a game with noire in the title, it sure doesn’t look like it). Nor is it the equally boring, though mostly frustrating interrogation scenes. It’s roaming around sunny California circa the 40s!

Though instead of getting around with one of the many sweet rides… which is also less fun as it could be, due to not being able to run anyone over… why not just hoof it? And how long would that take exactly? 40 minutes to get from one end of the city to the other, which the following clip demonstrates (though its been sped up and is now a far more digestible 15 minutes)…

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Matt Hawkins Matt Hawkins is an NYC based video game journalist, designer, consultant, and cultralist. He's been published in EGM and GameSetWatch amongst others. Matt also makes comics and zines, is obsessed with cable access, gets into arguments with homeless people all the time, and once had his nipple bitten off during a one night stand. But that's neither here nor there.