Winner Game of the Year
L.A Noire
Guide price: £45
It doesn’t take a hotshot detective to work out why you’ve voted L.A. Noire as your Game of the Year. With its Mad Men-style flashback narrative, Mad Men-style attention to detail and half the show’s cast playing a retinue of cops, criminals, hookers, hustlers, slashers and stranglers, this game immerses you in the dark, deadly Los Angeles of James Ellroy and Raymond Chandler. Groundbreaking new motion capture tech was used to create the most realistic game animation ever seen, resulting in an epic shoot ‘n’ sleuth adventure – a point-and-click mystery for the PS3 generation.
Highly commended
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