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L.A. Noire hands-on: Rockstar’s classic detective game moves to the Switch and HTC Vive

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Rockstar Games is hoping for a revival for one of its classics, L.A. Noire, a 2011 detective game that it’s relaunching on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and the HTC Vive virtual reality headset.

I had a look at it on the Switch and the HTC Vive, and it brought back some good memories and created new headaches. I’ll talk more about that in a bit. But it was both a good and a bad experience to try two very different ways of experiencing the crime game.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.