And while characters look decidedly last gen from the neck down, the facial animation can still be extraordinarily lifelike. It’s still impressive today and much better than many modern titles, especially those from Bethesda and BioWare. Vital to the game’s success at the time was the groundbreaking MotionScan technology, which recreates an actor’s face in incredible detail. Phelps is a detective and as such the bulk of his time is spent looking for clues and interrogating witnesses, not running over pedestrians. A lucky break has him quickly promoted to detective and through the course of the game he works the desks of traffic, homicide, vice, and arson.Īlthough there is a massive, historically accurate, version of Los Angeles to explore – including cars to hijack and secrets to find – this is absolutely not Grand Theft Auto with a different setting. Noire starts with war hero Cole Phelps walking the beat as a lowly street cop. So instead, the obvious assumption is that this is an attempt to gauge interest in a new game. With any other company you might dismiss this as a cash grab to make use of a dormant property, but you wouldn’t have thought Rockstar need the money. It’s particularly hard to guess at given they had a famous falling out with developer Team Bondi, who were eventually forced to close their doors. Rockstar are being typically tight-lipped as to what, if anything, any of this means. But this remaster of Rockstar’s 2011 hit is also available on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One – with a VR version for PC. An adult-themed film noir is not the sort of game you’d expect to be released on any Nintendo console in the run-up to Christmas, and that alone makes it interesting. We’ve seen a lot of games ported to the Switch in recent weeks, and while Doom may still seem the most unlikely L.A. Splinter Cell remake officially announced by Ubisoft and it’s not open world Rockstar Games’ film noir detective story is remastered for Nintendo Switch, PS4, and Xbox One. Noire (PS4) – does this mean a sequel is on its way?