L.A. Noire is a game that feels half baked in almost every regard. Huge open world with almost nothing to do in it. Large investigations that only have a direct solution. Great animation at times and laughable the next time. The pure story of LA Noire isn't very gripping at all. I really wanted to like this game as at the time I thought it would be like a big budget series Phoenix Wright style of investigations and breakdowns except it really wasn't. There were too many unintentional laughs throughout.

Cole Phelps as a main character is pretty interesting though. Although for all the wrong reasons. It's like he has ADD and is manic depressive or something. Dude goes from 0 too 100 in a nano second then back down to 0. It's hilarious. It doesn't just happen like one time either is all the time and it's practically a story beat.