Let's kick off with the head-to-head movie, backed up by an appropriately colossal L.A. Just how well does the Microsoft platform compete in providing the same gameplay experience? With the sheer amount of characters in the game, combined with that state-of-the-art MotionScan facial tech, it's safe to say that this game is very data-rich, almost filling a 25GB Blu-ray disc to the point of capacity. Noire, Team Bondi pares back some of the world effects and rich detailing, but compensates by using a real-life city with authentic period detail, plus characters animated with a brand new motion capture technology: MotionScan, from Team Bondi's sister studio, Depth Analysis. The environments were the focus in GTAIV and Red Dead Redemption: the emphasis was on building a narrative around a hugely complex and realistic game world. But it's also interesting to see how Team Bondi has taken a very different approach to its project in comparison to Rockstar's teams. Noire addresses all of these deficiencies and it is easily the closest multi-platform open-world game that Rockstar has released to date. Both of those titles undoubtedly ran more smoothly on Xbox 360 with higher native resolutions - but things are different this time. Noire may be using a variation of the same RAGE engine that underpinned Grand Theft Auto IV and Red Dead Redemption: certainly a number of graphical techniques carry over from the previous games into Team Bondi's epic. There are various reports of enhanced graphical effects, smoother frame-rates and of course the plain and simple fact that the PS3 version ships on one disc rather than three.įive years in development, the final version of L.A. Noire - that the developers were more au fait with the Sony platform, resulting in a tangibly better game. Produced by an off-shoot of the team that made The Getaway, it might be tempting to suggest that the PlayStation 3 is the natural home for L.A. 6.6GB (disc one), 6.6GB (disc two), 6.7GB (disc three)

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