Summary via Metacritic.com: Amid the post-war boom of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Cole Phelps, an LAPD detective is thrown headfirst into a city drowning in its own success. Corruption is rampant, the drug trade is exploding, and murder rates are at an all-time high. In his fight to climb the ranks and do what’s right, Phelps must unravel the truth behind a string of arson attacks, racketeering conspiracies and brutal murders, battling the L.A. underworld and even members of his own department to uncover a secret that could shake the city to its rotten core. Using groundbreaking new animation technology that captures every nuance of an actor’s facial performance in astonishing detail, L.A. Noire is a violent crime thriller that blends breathtaking action with true detective work to deliver an unprecedented interactive experience. Search for clues, chase down suspects and interrogate witnesses as you struggle to find the truth in a city where everyone has something to hide.

Rockstar Games has brought us so many instant classics (see here if you can’t remember) and I automatically assumed that their newest game would follow their past footsteps. With that said, was anyone wondering why a review for this game wasn’t out sooner? That’s because Rockstar didn’t deliver the game I wanted — rather, the instant classic I originally thought I was ordering. Instead, they brought a mixed bag of mystery, gunplay and emotional roller coasters.