{"id":91568,"date":"2026-10-19T13:47:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T17:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=91568"},"modified":"2026-10-19T14:36:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T18:36:49","slug":"this-la-noire-spinoff-idea-sounds-incredible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=91568","title":{"rendered":"This LA Noire Spinoff Idea Sounds Incredible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">British actor Rahul Kohli (Saros, Midnight Mass) has a pitch for a new L.A. Noire game, and it sounds pretty great. Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BAFTAGames\/status\/2112216181440745623?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2112216181440745623%7Ctwgr%5E18cae8235832b36d2257f57262db296867afdfd5%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gamespot.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost-new.php%3Fpost_type%3Darticles\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BAFTAGames\/status\/2112216181440745623?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2112216181440745623%7Ctwgr%5E18cae8235832b36d2257f57262db296867afdfd5%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gamespot.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost-new.php%3Fpost_type%3Darticles\">BAFTA Games<\/a>, Kohli said he would like to see the franchise return with a spinoff that takes players through different time periods, as a cop, as they investigate different crimes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One such setting could be Victorian England, with a storyline focused on hunting down Jack the Ripper, Kohli said. Another could take players to the &#8217;80s in California as they pursue the Night Stalker, the actor added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We could jump around and be a cop in different times. I would be down for that,&#8221; Kohli said. &#8220;I loved it. I adored L.A. Noire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-ref-id=\"1923432\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.core.image.showLightbox\" style=\"cursor: zoom-in\" height=\"576\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/LANoire_ece858.jpg?w=636\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1923432\" \/>Mad Men&#8217;s Aaron Staton as Cole Phelps in L.A. Noire. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In particular, Kohli said he was a big fan of developer Team Bondi&#8217;s facial-capture system which created lifelike expressions in the game, down to granular details like how a person\u2019s eyebrows might move.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a game where players had to read people&#8217;s facial expressions, this was a big deal, and one can only imagine how much further the technology could<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British actor Rahul Kohli (Saros, Midnight Mass) has a pitch for a new L.A. Noire game, and it sounds pretty great. Speaking to BAFTA Games, Kohli said he would like to see the franchise return with a spinoff that takes players through different time periods, as a cop, as they investigate different crimes. One such&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":91570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91568","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\/91568"}],"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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91568"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91571,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91568\/revisions\/91571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/91570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}