Video Blips: L.A. Noire, Duke Nukem Forever, Red Faction: Armageddon, and more

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Los Angeles somehow doubles as a magnet of world-weariness for its law enforcement. Hell, even fugitive android hunters are affected by it.

Video Blips:

• Corruption, drugs, and hard-boiled cops stalk the streets of L.A. Noire. Being an effective detective must be hard if everyone you meet keeps yelling into your face.

Continue after the break for a look at Duke Nukem Forever's side-scroller roots, Red Faction: Armageddon's streetwise smuggler Kara, and the utilitarian Meditron in Darkspore.

 

• Members of 3D Realms and Gearbox Software look back to Duke Nukem's humble beginnings. That is, if you can call any aspect of a lewd, narcissistic badass humble at all.


• Kara's got the smarts to stay alive in Red Faction: Armageddon's harsh conditions, but she'll need a little extra brawn to face against a new buggy foe. As long as she doesn't drive a saucer-shaped vehicle with a copilot that has body hair problems, things should be fine.


• Darkpore's Meditron is a powerful ally to help out in a jam with his useful healing and buff abilities. I suppose having a stream of nanobots blasted into me possesses some healing properties.