I love Kermode even more now

this is the funniest fucking video i’ve ever seen oh my god

Legendary

This was a great game - So Gritty - So Stylish - So Tongue in cheek - I really loved this game - It was like playing a retro GTA - Speeding around in those fantastic old Motors of the times (Some real classics appear in this Game) cruising at a steady 20 mph while listening to those old bakelite 78s as we drove around - And just where did they hide those giant gramophone horns on the motors dashboard ? - So discreetly too ! The story lines were fab - Ex Army types Selling stolen morphine on the black market - like something out of the 3rd Man - Plus mass murderers - Poisoners - Crimes of passion Bank robbers there all here just to mention a few ! And most amazing of course you get see the most Stunning of all ! - The location :- 1940s Los Angeles - Driving around you get to see all the old landmarks of 1940s Hollywood ! What more could you ask for ! In fact I'm gonna dig my copy out - And play it again some !

4:19 is that "seasoned gamer" playing L.A. Noire on a PS2?

im sure david cage loathes the fact kermode didnt do this for his games. thanks for the kermode archive, gratitude. the acting is bad in la noire though, had to cut budget somewhere after dev time, modeling people and settings, and face scan costs.

I sucked at this game. I'm never being a detective.

greatest game of all time.. no question

This is the same guy who said games were for losers and spotty teenagers.

"the contemporary depiction".... dressed like a hipster cloning the noire look. ok sweetheart

Loved this game

1:37 God I hope so

Must be annoying playing with those blinds.

Now THIS is a proper videogame review...

Rockstar make me proud to be scottish

Mark should play Heavy Rain! Easy to play and good story telling.

I'm the same, it is literally the same thing one after another, I was really looking forward to it as well. as I'd loved heavy rain and wanted another gaming experience that was similar.

Maybe it's not her equipment and it needed charging. It could have been sitting on shelf at the BBC for weeks before se was asked to use it.

It's an interesting experience, although just as a game I don't think it compares to Red Dead Redemption or GTA.

At no point did they mention how repetitive and monotonous the game gets. Seriously I was half way through vice and just gave up I got so bored.

whats the song that start at 0:18 ?

Surprised none of you have suggested Infinite yet. Dr. K; Do it!

Love the opening. Straight from Chandler's "The Big Sleep".

he should give Heavy Rain a go

wait a min, i thought he was only a movie critic, anyway ive played la noire and i can only say i had to push myself to finish, i couldnt wait to finish it not because it was that good but because it was that bad, not really bad but the game had a flaw...a serious flaw being not able have freedom in a sandbox open world game, it was the only open world game i played without having that sense of carefree freedom that games like gta and red dead so amazingly delivers

shame you have never played it. shame that it is your own opinion. shame you cant see that everybody can dislike a comment like this. yeah, keep thinking that.

Solving case after case got boring and I didn't finish the game without any regret. Which it had a singular case or along the line of the film LA confidential where two cases somehow become interconnected.

Grim Fandango captured the essence of film noire IMO

shame it was a terrible game.

Ya. Its boring though.

Just compare this to ign's review

This game need a mods.

I dunno about you probably throwing your controller around in an angry little nerd rage and breaking them. I have never had to replace mine and have had them for years. And you purposefully burden yourself with a charging cable which impedes your movement for the sake of nostalgia? I guess you must have to sit close to the tv because you cant see through your thick greasy spectacles. And can only afford one controller so do not have the luxury of having one on charge whilst running a second. BYE

Its decent enough as a movie but as a game its pretty dull.

He should review Metroid Prime mixes great gameplay, atmosphere and storytelling without a single word being spoken.

@Onmysheet google ego definition, it has no relevance here. you strange strange person.

This game is great, it does get tiresome and linear but the script had me in tears. Hilarious.

such a beautiful game, this video doesnt do it justice. But evry thing fun has been removed from the game, its certainly not gta. You cant even run a pedestrian over. But I buy it for its beauty

assassin's creed story is pretty unrealistic, but metal gear's story is excellent

Funny thing is this game wasn't praised for its story. If you wanna play a great story Kermode then I suggest you go for Metal Gear Solid or Assassin's Creed.

exactly!

what the fuck! i thought he hated video games?

Dear God, this is Kermode NOT trashing games. WTF.

her eye brows are fucked up

i think i'm probably looking at the way they fit the models. having seen more of the game by now, i'd call it hideously impressive. rockstar missed mebbe 1 out of a 1000.

shit, this was made by qualified historians?

..okay well you said your opinion, know go...

then go..

okay then don't play it.

Though I love the traditional linear path of most games, I think games real uniqueness come from those with with no stroy-line at all. Though the story of a final fantasy or zelda are best executed through a game, they could work as a book or film. But experiences in EVE, minecraft or dayZ are irreplicable and it's these games that make the genre so much more dynamic than traditional entertainment, as the narratives are infinite and molded in real time by mass involvement.