L.A. No

I have recently finished playing L.A. Noire (well, around two weeks ago) and after 16 hours of gameplay I found myself completely under-whelmed. I found the driving to be completely boring, the cases started off exciting but after finding hundreds of pieces of evidence became very repetitive. I did want to complete the game to see how it ended, but again this was quite an obvious ending (if you have played Rockstars Red Dead Dedemption). I expected the death of Phelps upon loading the title for the first time as I thought that Rockstar may continue with this new trend set by their best selling western. The free-roam was the main reason I wanted to play this game and I did expect a lot more. Unfortunately, playing as a policeman meant that all you could do in free roam was "borrow" some terrible cars and walk/run around. There was no random crimes that you could get involved into and even the in-car calls were limited to 40. I found that the entire game was based around the new technology regarding facial expressions, and whilst this was 'quite good' it was not breathtaking. I played the game through storymode and most of the 40 side missions and once I finished the last storymode mission I turned it off with no intention to replay this title at any time in the foreseeable future. 4/10