So what do you guys think of L.A. Noire?

[Doobie_wop]

I thought I'd really like the game, but it's basically a theater piece, I just press buttons and things happen with no consequences. I'm just not digging it, the voice acting is really good, the facial stuff is cool and the soundtrack is nice, but the game part of it is boring. People compare it to Heavy Rain, but the difference is that you can fail your own personal goals in Heavy Rain, if I want to keep Madison alive, healthy and mentally stable, I have to make sure I make all the right choices and make sure I'm quick on my feet, L.A. Noire doesn't have that sort of tension or feeling of accomplishment.

Even visually, the game isn't that great, the facial stuff is great at first, but it becomes less impressive as you keep playing, especially when you start to notice how it's just a human face on a doll body and that the actual environments in the game are fairly average. I think Enslaved and Uncharted did it better, the L.A. Noire method seems promising but flawed.

I'm still really early in the game, but I expected much more out of the facial feature stuff, I expected better pacing and I expected more WOW moments, similar to what I got when I first saw the facial animation.