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L.A. Noire: Your Questions Answered (IGN)
Link_Is_My_Homie asks... I've heard you have multiple ways of uncovering secrets in the game. Will more skilled detectives be rewarded for their ability to uncover clues quickly?
Jeronimo Barrera: The goal of the game is to be the best detective you can possibly be, so each case eventually ends with you solving the case correctly and rising through the ranks of the LAPD. How you get there is determined by the choices you make through the case, leading you down separate paths on your way to each break in the case. Your effectiveness at solving cases will be determined by how quickly you can use what you find to solve a case. Scouring a crime scene for clues is just one part of solving a case quickly.
Discovering different clues may open up different leads to new locations or suspects, which in turn open up new options for a player to decide how to go about solving a case. But that's only part of the challenge: during interrogations, players must correctly analyze a suspect in order to get the most information from them, and know which evidence to present and when to present it to get the answers they need.
Quicksand_buddy asks... How many hours of dialogue were recorded for L. A. Noire? Also, is there enough variety in dialogue alone to merit multiple playthroughs?
Brendan McNamara: We captured over 50 hours worth of dialogue in total, all using MotionScan -- it's equivalent to about two full seasons of a TV show. Each case has its own twists and turns depending on the choices you make, leading you down different paths on your way to cracking the case, giving you plenty of reasons to jump back in and replay the game.