The game box handily states you may need a microSD card to play it, but good luck even trying to run it if you don’t. Noire’s included DLC and smattering of new collectables and outfits but the texture improvements don’t help. Some of its enormous size is down to L.A.
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The improvement in visuals and fidelity over the PS3 and Xbox 360 do come at a cost, however. Details in crime scenes are just as equally grisly, earning the game a well-deserved 18 rating from the BBFC. seem more alive, particularly during driving sections. They also no longer seem to float over the surface of a character’s model instead, they look part of the character in question.Įnvironments also seem to be more detailed and, while equally as sparse in terms of activities, the streets of L.A. They still look incredible but, thanks to a bump in environment and character detail, along with improved lighting, they don’t look as out of place as before. The hyperrealistic 3D scanned faces of the original remain but this time they’ve been softened. In fact, the Switch version is a vast improvement over the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions. But that doesn’t mean it’s any worse for it.
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To make the experience work on Switch, Rockstar has clearly had to make some concessions compared to the PS4 and Xbox One remasterings. In fact, it’s exactly how I’ve wanted to play games like this for years.
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Noire works just great on Nintendo’s portable console: on Switch is an absolute delight. Anyone who’s read the plethora of Switch games I’ve covered will be tired of hearing, L.A. You’d think, then, that shrinking down such a filmic experience into a portable form would sully the creation, but it does anything but that.
Heck, the original game developer, Team Bondi, even offered a black and white filter for you to play with to make it feel just that little bit more authentic. Noire actually feels like a film to play through. Sure, both Grim Fandango and Hotel Dusk make a good stab at it, but L.A. Noire is as close as you’ll get to playing your way through one of these movies in video game form. READ NEXT: The best Nintendo Switch games for 2017 As a whole, they’re essentially the same game as the one released six years ago but now Rockstar’s touch-ups have brought 4K textures and HDR to the PS4 and Xbox One releases while the Nintendo Switch title has become its own nugget of L.A. If those didn’t prove to be issues, there was also the unsettling realism of the 3D-scanned actors’ faces on every character model.įast forward to 2017 and the PS4, Xbox One and Switch remasters have alleviated many of these problems. Others were perturbed by the bad signposting used for interrogations, where “doubt”, “truth” and “lie” didn’t encapsulate what they actually intended to happen. Many thought it was going to be an action-packed open-world detective romp, mostly because that’s what its publisher Rockstar was renowned for. Unfortunately, due to poor marketing messages and last-minute design decisions, it didn’t appear as slick as it initially could have. Back in 2011 it bucked a lot of trends and placed a lot of emphasis on its characters and on humanising its cast.