15 years after its authentic launch, Group Bondi and Rockstar Games‘ LA Noire continues to have a sizeable following, however – regardless of Rockstar saying it wouldn’t “count out the possibility” of a follow-up back in 2012 – a sequel has by no means emerged. Even so, new feedback from Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick have recommended there’s probably nonetheless hope.
Addressing fellow executives on the latest Iicon summit, Zelnick mentioned a variety of subjects, together with GTA 6’s current state and price tag. That very same dialog (via IGN) additionally touched upon the potential of revisiting different Take-Two properties, together with the likes of LA Noire. “There’s nothing to announce on LA Noire particularly,” Zelnick replied, “and if there have been, it might be Rockstar asserting it, not me.”
He did, nevertheless, acknowledge Take-Two is extra broadly “taking a look at doing one thing sooner or later with all of our mental property” and that its groups “are at all times taking a look at what we have now and we’re at all times fascinated about it. The query is, at any given time, do we have now a group that is captivated with engaged on that?”
It is non-commital, then, but additionally price noting that Take-Two does in reality now have a group who would possibly maybe be captivated with engaged on a LA Noire sequel. Final yr, the writer introduced subsidiary Rockstar had acquired developer Video Games Deluxe, which was to be renamed Rockstar Australia. Why’s that important? Video Video games Deluxe is led by Brendan McNamara, maybe higher referred to as the director of LA Noire, and has already dabbled within the sequence, having developed a VR model of LA Noire for Rockstar in 2017.
As for the unique LA Noire, Eurogamer called it “a genuinely mature sport” made with affected person avid gamers in thoughts after we reviewed it in 2011. “In the event you’re prepared to take the tough with the graceful and undergo the story,” Oli Welsh wrote, “LA Noire pays you again in spades.”
