L.A. Noire

(December 7th 2011 - ....)

Cool

Nice atmosphere.
Convincing environment.
Nice interactions.
Good movement.
Nice control organisation.
Game is set in 40's USA. The Stars and Stripes are 13 stripes and 48 stars - consistent with fact. Good!
The water coolers are usable...seemingly to no end, but he doesn't put the cup to his lips, nor does anything come out of it

Uncool

Fire extinguishers are not usable - bummer. I wanted mischief.

Observations

0.2% for simply starting the game.
Car damage repairs itself.
Car make/model can change while parked up and out of shot.
Herschell Biggs sometimes refuses to drive - just no reaction to being asked to drive. I don't know if this is in line with his stubbornly individual attitude, or maybe a programming issue, but no other partner has refused. The game also crashed during this session. This might be related.


Oversights

In a/the Pawn Shop robbery, I armed myself with the shotgun of a dead robber, and approached the last robber on the roof, only to find myself automatically rearmed with my pistol (fortunately).
If you reverse the car into a cut scene trigger, the cut scene corrects the car orientation.
Why would I not be interested in a pair of shoes outside the front door of a potential murder suspect when footprints are one of our biggest clues?! - Why would I be interested in an inconsequential fishing lure and reel at the same premises?!
Swings swing when you walk into them, flowers move and rustle when you walk through them, but you ghost through washing on washing lines. (postscript: most washing actually does move when you walk through it.This seems to have been isolated.)
I destroyed the chandelier at the library (museum?) and a whole film set while closing the Black Dahlia case and my end of case report was exemplary featuring only tens of dollars city damage. Well, it is the 50s I suppose...everything was cheaper then ;o)
I drove a very very beaten up car with bullet holes and a burst tyre to a side mission which invoked a car chase. My car was immediately repaired. 

Bugs

Got trapped between the chair, the desk and the wall in the coroners office. Had to restart the mission.
Fist fight in the Maldonado murder case: A picture on the wall kept disappearing and reappearing while battering a suspect up against it. The knockout blow sent him ghosting through the wall. The end of fight cut-scene had Cole finishing it on the other side of the room.
A pedestrian crossing the street disappeared.
Game crashed while investigating spilt popcorn during the Black Caesar case.
During the praying family arson case, Biggs was following me so closely that he ended up stood on my shoulder.