Insert Credit endeavors to suss out where you should be allotting your video game allowance, sifting out a single title from many and crowning it as The One Game You Need to Get This Week. Don't consider these reviews, gentle reader. Rather, think of Insert Credit as a mix of hands-on time, informed opinion and intuition.
For the week of May 18, 2011, you should insert credit into: "L.A. Noire".
For the most part, Rockstar Games' protagonists have been rebels, people who object to the order of society and/or find themselves on its fringes. If they do make their way to the center, it's by virtue of bloody reprisals and vengeful comeuppance. From the nameless punk criminal in "Grand Theft Auto 3" to put-upon boarding school student Jimmy Hopkins in "Bully," the outsider status of Rockstar's hero characters probably accounts for a lot of their fan base. Their games give you...
For the week of May 18, 2011, you should insert credit into: "L.A. Noire".
For the most part, Rockstar Games' protagonists have been rebels, people who object to the order of society and/or find themselves on its fringes. If they do make their way to the center, it's by virtue of bloody reprisals and vengeful comeuppance. From the nameless punk criminal in "Grand Theft Auto 3" to put-upon boarding school student Jimmy Hopkins in "Bully," the outsider status of Rockstar's hero characters probably accounts for a lot of their fan base. Their games give you...
- 5/18/2011
- by Evan Narcisse
- ifc.com
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