L.A. Noire: The Complete Edition, so named due to the PC version of Rockstar's vintage crime opus containing all the DLC from the get-go, launched on Steam not minutes ago in the US, though Brits must wait the traditional three extra days. Retailers, you're bad people. Still: I've been playing it over the last few days, so here is An Opinion.
There's a slight element of redundancy to writing this, isn't there? If you have even the slightest interest in Rockstar's detective-'em-up, you'll surely have read some kind of review of it in the long months since its May release on console. Whatever I'm about to tell you, you probably already know. Like that's going to stop me from droning on about, of course.
L.A. Noire is two distinct games. One is a much more limited take on the traditional Rockstar open urban world/ third person driving/shooting game, but set in the 40s, with angry policemen removed (you are the angry policeman here) and cars that struggle to top 60 miles an hour. Early 20th century LA is a beautiful, richly-detailed place - everything from newsstand vendors to smokey divebars recreated with painstaking detail.
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