Re: L.A. Noire (PS3/360)
anyone know the release date for this game?
anyone know the release date for this game?
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Re: L.A. Noire (PS3/360)
EDGE has an excellent preview up.
Deduction is the core of LA Noire, an open-world detective game steeped in the fiction of Dashiell Hammett and James Ellroy, informed by the police records, newspapers and maps of ’40s Los Angeles. Evidence is gathered and examined, witnesses interrogated, suspects shaken down. Though published by Rockstar and taking place in an open city (a near street-for-street recreation of LA circa 1947), those expecting GTA to turn up in a fedora have been following a bad lead. As Cole Phelps, a cop working his way up through the LAPD, you’ll spend considerably more time thinking about the case before you, and the constellation of facts that comprises it, than you will mowing down bad guys. The distinction is most obviously drawn by the fact that you are now on the other side of the law, but more profoundly because LA Noire follows a different rhythm to open-world action titles like GTA, a meditative pace in which detection rather than destruction is the propellant. There may be bodies aplenty, but most of the cadavers in question have cooled well before you encounter them, framed by chalk outlines.Go Noles!!! >>----->Comment
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Re: L.A. Noire (PS3/360)
I can't wait for this game.
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Re: L.A. Noire (PS3/360)
Im looking forward to seeing this new facial animation system live. Seems like every preview raves about this as a game changer,etc. must be awesome.Comment
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Re: L.A. Noire (PS3/360)
Gamepro's John Davidson: The Most Impressive Thing I Saw At E3
Unlike the systems that we’ve all seen in countless boring magazine stories for the past 10 years with the little white balls glued to spandex body suits, MotionScan is much more sophisticated. It uses 32 high definition cameras (divided into 16 stereoscopic pairs) to capture every angle of an actor’s performance at 30 frames per second. From this data it generates a fully-textured 3D model (at the moment it’s just their heads, but later it will be full body) that incorporates every nuance, mannerism, and emotional detail from the performance.
To demonstrate this, Depth Analysis head of research Oliver Bao was joined by Team Bondi founder and director Brendan McNamara, who is overseeing the first game that will make use of the technology; Rockstar's L.A. Noire. To illustrate the system, the showed a series of performances from actors being used in the game, with video of the actor’s actual performance alongside the data captured with MotionScan. The first demo was simple. An actor spoke some lines and smiled, and it was eerily realistic. As Bao and McNamara advanced through subsequent demos, the performances became more and more emotionally engaging until they eventually showed me a scene in which a character was shown distraught about the murder of his wife. As he sobbed through his lines, every line in his face broadcast the angst his character was feeling. His eyes welled-up, and tears streamed down his face. As the scene played out, Bao demonstrated that it was a realtime 3D model by moving the actor’s disembodied head around the screen, and applying different lighting effects.
The effect was startling, and the performance genuinely moving. This is far beyond the “eye contact” we were promised in Mass Effect, or the clumsiness of some of the scenes in Heavy Rain, this was a real actor pouring his heart and soul into an emotional performance that was then fully captured in a 3D model.Because much of L.A. Noire is a criminal investigation, a big part of what the player must do is judge whether characters are telling the truth or not. Previously, the devices available to game designers for conveying this have been quite clumsy. We’d need obvious dialog cues or less than subtle visual hints, but in L.A. Noire, it’ll all be in the performance. “You need to be able to tell when someone is lying,” he explained. “And if you look at these performances, they’re so realistic you’re going to be able to tell if the guy is trying to avoid you, or not look you in the eye.” With this he cued up a brief scene from an interrogation in the game, and it was possible to tell purely from the lines around the character’s eyes, and the way he was moving his eyebrows that something might be amiss.
The impact that this technology is going to have on game development (and the movie business too, as it is being pitched to studios and effects houses as well. Plus, actors are going to be pretty happy about another potential outlet for their craft) is potentially huge. It doesn’t require markers or phosphorescent paint on the actors faces, and there’s no need for animators or artists to clean up details after scenes have been shot. The fact that the system captures a full performance means that hair, makeup, and even prosthetics can be captured. During my time with Bao and McNamara, they showed me one character that was covered in cuts bruises that had been applied by a professional makeup artist, and it was far more striking than anything that could have been added in post-production because they moved realistically with the character’s skin.
For games with large casts of characters, like L.A. Noire which features more than 200, the potential for streamlining the production process is tremendous. Actors will be able to provide animation and graphical data as they’re delivering their lines, and will help eliminate the huge amount of effort that currently goes into lip-syncing 3D models that have been created by a studio’s art team. McNamara also noted that soon the system will be able to capture up to three actors at the same time, so full conversations can be filmed and the appropriate physical and emotional reactions recorded.
While I only got to spend 10 or 15 minutes with the technology, it was very clear that it marks the beginning of a new chapter in the way that realistic game characters will be presented. If used properly, it will push the boundaries of what we expect from game performances, and hopefully elevate the demand for good writing, good dialog, and real emotional content. While it has obvious applications for cut-scenes, narrative elements, and in-game conversation, the real benefit will come in the seamless transition between action and static scenes, and the fact that there'll potentially be no break in realism.
Hopefully this description, and the images I've posted here manage to go some way to conveying just how significant and impressive this system is. I think the real proof will come when we finally get to see L.A. Noire in motion.
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Re: L.A. Noire (PS3/360)
That guy is awfully wrinkly.
I was a little skeptical about the "most realistic facial animations ever" description that had been going around in every preview but this really sounds like something revolutionary for gaming.Originally posted by BlzerComment
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Re: L.A. Noire (PS3/360)
has anyone heard any release date rumors? Think we will get it this year?Comment
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Re: L.A. Noire (PS3/360)
John Noble is an actor in this game? That's great.
That technology looks amazing."It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace
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Re: L.A. Noire (PS3/360)
Style of gameplay + new game-changing tech + John Noble = Automatic purchase for me.Jordan Mychal Lemos
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