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Nicholson Electroplating will be made available for download next week on June 21 via PSN ($3.99) and Xbox Live for $3.99/ 320 MSP. What caused the explosion? What were Nicholson's employees working on? And where are chief chemist Dr Harold McLellan and his mysterious female assistant?" Detectives Phelps and Biggs race to the site of the former Nicholson Electroplating plant to find a pile of unanswered questions. City blocks are flattened and smoke and ash fill the air. Here's more: "At 9.45 in the morning, a thunderous explosion rocks Los Angeles. It is your job to figure out if it was just as accident, or if something more nefarious was behind the tragedy. Noire DLC case, “Nicholson Electroplating”, along with some interesting facts on it.Īpparently, there's been an explosion at the Nicholson Electroplating plant and Arson desk detectives Phelps and Biggs must go to the scene. Rockstar played up its facial-scanning technology in advance of the game's release.Rockstar has released a new trailer for the upcoming L.A. Searching for clues is a glorified point-and-click exercise. Much like Heavy Rain before it (and maybe more so), if you break this game down into a list of features, the whole thing dissolves into farce. Noire is especially resistant to compartmentalisation. No game can be evaluated merely as the sum of its parts, but L.A. Noire's individual "features" and amp them up a little. Noire proper, this fragment, Nicholson Electroplating, has to find other ways to justify its existence. Tip: You can tell he's lying on account of he's wearing a hat.īecause it can't fit into the flow of L.A. It's the developers' way of saying, "And now: This." Gee, we really should be working on that time-sensitive, life-or-death case, shouldn't we? Then there's a big explosion. Phelps and partner Biggs vamp for the cameras a bit.
There is some hand-waving dialogue at the outset of the case that nods toward the main story. In a game where context is everything, this case sits alone. Nicholson Electroplating doesn't have confluence. Noire's fragile glories depend on the confluence of a huge number of threads. Noire wears so many guises, there are a lot of ways it can go: a shootout, a tense interview, a careful hunt for clues? Noire, and in response the game turns into a cornered cat. It's like the approaching resolution of the mystery is closing in on L.A. Kelso gives Phelps some depth and, in a certain light, turns him into something of an anti-hero.Īs the facts come together in the Kelso/Phelps arson investigation, it's increasingly hard to tell where the action is going to turn. Phelps' war "buddy" Jack Kelso finally provides a proper foil to our hero. It's a courageous creative decision that pays off. A new protagonist squeezes Phelps out of the picture for a while.
I TOLD him not to move his Xbox while the disc was spinning! And now look. Those newspaper cut-scenes and war flashbacks the tantalising near-adequacy of the interview system the game's insistence on methodical, by-the-numbers police work: they all now sing in harmony. In the manner of all great noir thrillers, the game grabs all its dangling threads and weaves them together. Noire transforms from "only" an interesting game into an outstanding one. (By the way, I'm going to touch lightly on some plot details of that third act now, so if that offends your sensibilities, skip down a few paragraphs.) It comes in the middle of the third act, during Phelps' stint as an arson detective. Because nothing is simple in Phelps' L.A., a miasma of corporate and international intrigue surrounds this lucrative process. Playing as Cole Phelps, you and fellow arson detective Herschel Biggs rush to the disaster scene, where you quickly uncover evidence of an experimental aluminium-treatment technique. The epicentre of the blast is the titular metal-treatment plant, which is obliterated. The Nicholson case, a downloadable add-on released this Tuesday, opens with a boom that spreads shrapnel and destruction across a half-dozen city blocks and lofts a mushroom cloud into the air. Noire so special, and Nicholson Electroplating so not. Noire is an organism it can't be broken up into modules. Sure, it's a mighty fine spleen and all, but if you're just gonna stick it on there, don't be surprised when it fails to come alive. Nicholson Electroplating is like an extra spleen that's been cloned from the stem cells of L.A.