supposedly not quite clicking just months before completion &mdash

Their Red Dead Redemption, supposedly not quite clicking just months before completion — and a risky Western, no less — came to consoles this past April great enough to be a Game of the Year contender. This is a company willing to make a sharp-turn left to make a table tennis game, pull a U-turn and produce a beat- program for the PlayStation Portable.Off of their Red Dead triumph will come L.A. Noire this coming spring. The replica Panerai PAM00176 Men's Watch game is set in 1947 Los Angeles and stars Cole Phelps, a decorated war veteran and idealistic detective climbing the ranks in the Los Angeles Police Department. The game's developers have recreated eight square miles of vintage L.A., a lovely and well-populated urban scene tinged with tempting gleam and seedy glow of a town intoxicated with the booming motion picture industry.

Phelps is a detective and this game is about investigations, which means that players should not expect the mayhem or the pace of a GTA. They should expect something slower, a game that expects you to be inquisitive about mysteries, curious about finding evidence and eager to ponder a facial expression of an aging Hollywood actress before deciding whether to accept her lies or dismiss her flirtation in order to grill her about her replica Panerai PAM00111 Men's Watch mobster husband.Rockstar touts L.A. Noire as a game that lets you become a detective, which I can say is an apt description, having watched representatives from the company play one of the game's cases for me on a PlaySation 3 development unit (the game is also coming to the Xbox 360).

Much of this game proceeds case by case, with Phelps gradually moving from desk to desk in the LAPD, tackling a new batch of cases, one at a time as he is promoted, accompanied by a new partner at each new desk.I was shown a case called The Fallen Idol, an early case available from the traffic desk. The set-up involved a car crashed off a low replica Panerai PAM00024 Men's Watch cliff, one of its survivors shaken, the other hospitalized, torn underwear, suspicious blood stains and an idol head all found on the scene. The player controls Phelps, walking through the scene to spot evidence, talking to witnesses and suspects, traveling to new locations to chase down leads and, occasionally getting in a fistfight, a shootout or a car chase.