(Posted By: Alex Deckard)

L.A. Noire is out.  Having finished it, I can confidently say a few things.

1.  I have never played a game like this.

2.  Rockstar was not involved in this product from the start, and it shows.

3.  It’s my current front runner for game of the year.

4.  Red Dead Redemption was more fun.

Lets start with the first one.  Never before has a game approached detective work like this.  Even Arkham Asylum, where you play as the worlds greatest detective, Batman (suck it Sherlock Holmes!), your detective work is relegated to looking at things through goggles.  Also punching.  Punching is now detective work.

But I digress.  I will stop digressing after the break.

(Posted by: Eric Rees)

There seems to be a few games that I get excited for, and even fewer that I go to my friends and tell them that they need to get it so we can play together. The last time this happened, Medal of Honor let me down immensely but with Brink I hope this would change. The amount of customization in the characters and within the firefights had me intrigued beyond belief, but then I saw all the reviews it was getting. Hit the break to read the rest of my own Brink review.