L.A Noire has nudity, violence and over 5 hours of cut-scenes

[Chaos Raiden]

The British Board of Film Classification has passed Rockstar's L.A Noire with an 18 certificate, and revealed that the game contains over five hours of cut-scenes.

The BBFC passed the game with no cuts made, inclusive of its five hours, 12 minutes of non-playable cut-scenes.

According to the ratings body, the title also contains a further three hours, 25 minutes of 'supplementary gameplay footage' - in-game non-playable action.

It reports that the title: "Contains very strong language, strong violence, sex references and nudity."

CVG reported yesterday that L.A Noire developer Team Bondi believes MotionScan - the tech used to power motion capture in the game - will evolve to challenge TV and movies for realism.

L.A Noire is due for release on 360 and PS3 in May.

Source: http://www.computerandvideogames.co...dity-violence-and-over-5-hours-of-cut-scenes/

 

[Dark Drakan]

Was reading this earlier, im glad no cuts had to be made and we can enjoy it in its entirety the way it was meant to be and thats quite the amount of cutscenes. Hopefully they are all important and dont pull you out of the game too much as we all want a game not an interactive movie.

 

[Vergil'sBitch]

did someone say nudity? i suppose its female...
(i'm starting to think that the BBFC has double standards at times)

Not that I'm moaning... its a good thing.

 

[Esura]

Not that I'm moaning... its a good thing.

Yes...moaning is a good thing.

 

[Dark Drakan]

did someone say nudity? i suppose its female...
(i'm starting to think that the BBFC has double standards at times)

Not that I'm moaning... its a good thing.

Depends on context id imagine, full nudity when used in sexual encounters or just for content isnt reviewed the same as a corpse that needs examining to find clues for example.

 

[V]

VB, Rockstar's 1st expansion for GTA4 had male nudity in it. Although it was more laughable than anything.

 

[DMC]

VB, Rockstar's 1st expansion for GTA4 had male nudity in it. Although it was more laughable than anything.

u never see games and movie that have nude males that much. and why do they made movies and games have nudity in the first place.

 

[Dark Drakan]

u never see games and movie that have nude males that much. and why do they made movies and games have nudity in the first place.

Harder to re-create men genitalia on an in game model than females. They have it for realism purposes usually but some games do it for the shock factor or to show its not meant to be aimed at younger audiences.

 

[V]

I reckon Rockstar threw it in there for amusement. After the whole "Hot Coffee" and visiting prostitutes fiasco, why not? :3

 

[Vergil'sBitch]

I really wasn't moaning...
Anyway. I didn't know the woman was supposed to be dead... and i didn't know that about GTA4.

 

[Dark Drakan]

I reckon Rockstar threw it in there for amusement. After the whole "Hot Coffee" and visiting prostitutes fiasco, why not? :3

In L.A. Noire its not a joke this time or done for the publicity. Apparently its done in a tasteful way and shows the grim scenes of a murder without any humour or tongue in cheek idea behind it.

I really wasn't moaning...
Anyway. I didn't know the woman was supposed to be dead... .

Yeah shes a murder victim and you have to examine her body.

SOME MINOR SPOILERS FOLLOW

During the course of the game, players may come across crime scenes in which badly beaten or mutilated corpses are subject to investigation; players are able to examine victims' bodies close-up, surveying various bruises and bloody cuts for evidence - a few female corpses are depicted fully nude with fleeting images of pubic hair.

Investigations sometimes pertain to sexual assault crimes, and details are often conveyed in clinical terms through dialogue or on-screen text (e.g., 'He's some kind of sex fiend,' 'Woman's briefs torn at seams, forcibly removed,' and 'Head trauma . . . external bruising to genitals.'). In one cut-scene, there is an implication that a character is engaged in a sexual relationship with a teenager (e.g., 'You take love where you can find it as you get older, Jack'/That has nothing to do with love . . .'). Some sequences allow players to collect/manipulate drug-related evidence such as marijuana packets, morphine syringes, or amphetamine pills; in one cut-scene, a doctor can be seen injecting a character with morphine.

 

[Vergil'sBitch]

Sounds a bit like a CSI game (except you don't get naked bodies in those games.)
Thanks for posting the "spoiler" DD.

 

[V]

I agree DD... I was just referring to the male nudity in the Biker DLC of GTA4. I assumed L.A. Noire (why does it have an 'e' in the title anyhow, there is no 'e' in Noir?) would have a far more serious atmosphere than the GTAs. There wasn't any real need to throw it into the GTA DLC other than a bit of amusement at who would be offended at the needless full frontal, and that follows with the reputation GTA (and Rockstar) has got for itself with that particular game series.

I suppose like RDR, any nudity will fit into the style and the story. As much as nudity needs to in a game, I guess. I'm not much of a fan of needless sexuality in games. But since the 'noir' genre generally has strong undertones involving sexuality and murder, femme fatales, prostitutes, etc. it's not shocking to hear the game's gonna contain nudity if you're examining victims of sex crimes.

It's funny as well how games that contain nudity rarely contain anything actually pornographic. At least not here. So it's usually nothing for the censors to get really excited about and usually fits into the story somehow.

 

[Dark Drakan]

I agree DD... I was just referring to the male nudity in the Biker DLC of GTA4. I assumed L.A. Noire (why does it have an 'e' in the title anyhow, there is no 'e' in Noir?)

Noir can be without or with an E.

La Légion Noire (The black Legion) & Mondeuse Noire (red wine grape) for example.

Some amusing insights on Gamespots pages:

Here

La is the feminine THE form. If you think hard enough you can see similarities between L.A. an La
So that means it can be seen as La Noire wich means The Black or The Dark.
As i hope you remember noire was the femine form of noir therefore it have to stand La noire and not La noir.
Rockstar obviously played with words in the title and made it mean more things.

And then we have L.A. who is a city.
City is Ville on french and is also a feminine word.
The City
La Ville
Therefore Los Angeles is a city
Now if you want to describe a feminine thing on french you have to use a feminine word.
Therefore you can't use maskuline Noir to describe a feminine Los Angeles (la ville)
instead you have to use the feminine noire.

Therefore it's clear that Rockstar have read their french.

 

[The crazy demon]

I think that after this game some people will look videogames like more mature things than before.

 

[Dark Drakan]

I think that after this game some people will look videogames like more mature things than before.

Its certainly aiming to break down some gaming barriers with its release with the genre/new tech and dark/mature gritty atmosphere.

 

[V]

I see. Although I have rarely come across "la noire" before in my use of French. The L.A. was not my first thought for the feminine form, although la ville should've been obvious to me, haha.

I suppose it will be somewhat in the vein of the 'grittyness' of Heavy Rain.

On a side note, I hear PEGI is set to become the UK's main game rating system, which can't be good.

 

[Vergil'sBitch]

I always thought that PEGI were better at rating games than the BBFC. :/

 

[Vergil'sBitch]

I always thought that PEGI were better at rating games than the BBFC. :/

EDIT~ Sorry about the double post. The computer is being a pain... its not mine I'm in a library

 

[V]

Here's the article I read last night

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-04-14-is-pegi-too-tough-article

Later this year PEGI will become the legally enforceable ratings body for games in the UK, completely replacing the BBFC. Wherever creative content is legislated in this way, friction is inevitable. And almost always, controversy arises because a rating is seen to be making it too easy for inappropriate material to reach the jam-stained fingers of our innocent children.

The recent furore over We Dare, Ubisoft's dreary collection of allegedly saucy mini-games, is a good example of what can happen when content and context fail to align. PEGI rated it as 12 because there was nothing in the game itself, according to their guidelines, that warranted a higher rating. Whatever sexy facade We Dare wore came from its advertising, not what was on the screen.

My curiosity was piqued in 2008 when my son fell in love with Castle Crashers, The Behemoth's deliciously silly scrolling beat-em-up. The game featured a few small spurts of blood and lots of poo jokes, but after playing it from beginning to end, I struggled to see why it had been deemed suitable only for 16 year-olds.
It seemed like a ludicrous decision, especially when the only explanation on the PEGI website was that this highly stylised cartoon game contained "realistic-looking violence".

This stood in stark contrast to Naughty Bear, rated 12, a game so sadistic and violent that the PR responsible for sending me a copy actually made a point of saying that it really wasn't suitable for kids. Looking for clarification, the PEGI rating explained that while Naughty Bear also contained "realistic looking violence", it was aimed at "non-human characters".

Seems like the PEGI rating fails to rate properly because it fails to take into account the proper context of the content. Which is pretty important when it comes to the reasoning behind ratings, and the risk posed to kids.

I mean, how much can be edited out of a game or banned or generally misunderstood by a rating system that is so poor? It worries me a little.

It goes on:

Examples have continued to crop up over the past year, suggesting PEGI was perhaps struggling to bridge the gap between 12 and 16. Iron Man 2 and Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, for instance, were rated 16 for 360 and PS3 players - but 12 for Wii owners, despite being virtually identical.

Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed were rated 16, the same rating dished out to grisly foul-mouthed shooters like Metro 2033 and Crysis 2, despite featuring no sex or bad language and only bloodless violence.