14 DAY TRIAL // L.A. Noire offers a unique experience, according to the director and writer of the game, Brendan McNamara, who said that the title appeals to women and captures the attention of multiple people, not just the player.
L.A. Noire has just been released last week, with the video game made by Team Bondi and published by Rockstar managing to attract quite a lot of positive reviews, both from the media and the regular players.
Now, Brendan McNamara, the writer of L.A. Noire and the director of Team Bondi, has talked, via CVG, about how the title manages to lure in not just the actual players, but also their friends or family, which feel the urge to pitch in to help the crime solving process.
"We think it appeals to a really broad church," McNamara mused, "and one of the phenomenons [sic] we've seen a lot when we watch people play the game is that they'll play it, or their wife or their girlfriend will play it, and two or three people will play it together like they're watching TV. Three people can be entertained playing the same game and that's a bit of a phenomenon"
What's more, McNamara is convinced that women are going to be attracted by L.A. Noire, largely due to their predilection of figuring out if others are lying or not.
"So far it's been very appealing to women too, which is great," he went on. "I think women are pretty good at reading whether people are lying or not."
L.A. Noire sees players take on the role of Detective Cole Phelps, an LAPD officer which rises through the ranks of the department by solving a variety of cases.
These range from robberies to murders or other crimes, each presenting their own challenges and unique experiences to players who are trying to let their inner detective loose.