You’ll have to choose whether to play the good/bad cop or whether to accuse suspects, which are literally three onscreen choices on how to interrogate a suspect. When you finally get to this point in cases Cole is heading up the game is going to ask you to approach interviews of suspects with caution. The latter of the bunch is one of the driving points of the game, if not THE driving point, which is interrogation. You get involved in cases, you find clues, you write them down, maybe you’ll get involved with occasional gunfire/running down a criminal and then you interrogate suspects to see if you can break them. It’s fun and it’s a relaxing way of playing the game, or at least avoiding completing the game.Īnyway, open world aside, the structure of the game is pretty simple for the most part. Noire I spent an extra amount of time simply enjoying the scenery and harassing the citizens of Los Angeles. You can drive until your heart’s content and commandeer vehicles all you want (they couldn’t get the GTA out of the equation) to keep the dumb fun going for hours.
The open world manner of the game is still there, which is neat to see on a portable screen. Noire is still very much intact in the Switch version of the game. Nothing has changed, at least on the surface, for the Nintendo Switch version of the game.Įverything you’ve either loved or hated about L.A. Along the way, you also get to interrogate a lot of people, and you have to do it the right way or the game will fail you and make you do it again.
Your purpose as Cole is to investigate and solve murders, and keep yourself up high on the ladder with Cole’s superiors. Set in the 40s/50s in Los Angeles, California, you play as Cole Phelps, an ex-veteran from World War II and an up and coming police officer that quickly becomes a detective for the LAPD. Now the game has made a triumphant return on a newer system and included some goodies along the way on the Nintendo Switch. A six-year old game with hints of open world, a dash of mystery and noire and some visuals that are out of this world. Noire from Rockstar Games and Team Bondi. Before there was the open world experience of gun toting criminals in flashy cars and violence-driven heists, such is the case with Grand Theft Auto V, there was L.A.