{"id":85998,"date":"2026-07-15T10:50:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T14:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=85998"},"modified":"2026-07-15T12:37:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:37:26","slug":"new-details-revealed-on-whore-of-the-orient-la-noires-canceled-spiritual-successor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=85998","title":{"rendered":"New Details Revealed on Whore of the Orient, LA Noire’s Canceled Spiritual Successor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New details about Whore of the Orient<\/a>, the canceled spiritual successor to LA Noire, have been revealed by a former writer on the project.<\/p>\n

I recently sat down with Daniel McMahon, a writer who worked on LA Noire for a YouTube video<\/a> celebrating the game’s recent 15th anniversary. In the second half of the video, we dove deep on Whore of the Orient, a controversial game<\/a> that would’ve served as a spiritual successor to LA Noire. The game was in the works at Kennedy Miller-Mitchell, the production company of the Mad Max films, and was being worked on by ex-Team Bondi staff, including LA Noire writer and director Brendan McNamara.<\/p>\n

It would’ve been yet another historical crime story, but this time set in Shanghai in the 1930s. McMahon stated that the game would’ve been more dense than LA Noire, opting to focus on more detail rather than overwhelming scale. He compared it to the shift between Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag and Assassin’s Creed Unity, which traded the open seas for a crowded version of Paris. <\/p>\n

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Players would’ve filled the shoes of a British detective in Shanghai, but Whore of the Orient would’ve taken a different approach to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New details about Whore of the Orient, the canceled spiritual successor to LA Noire, have been revealed by a former writer on the project. I recently sat down with Daniel McMahon, a writer who worked on LA Noire for a YouTube video celebrating the game’s recent 15th anniversary. In the second half of the video,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":86000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85998"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86002,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85998\/revisions\/86002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}