I'm currently a few of cases into the 'homocide' desk rank (9 or so hours in and 41% story done) and it's shaping up well, despite my reservations.
I wish there were more lines of interrogation you could persue with the characters, as most seem to have 4-5 questions you could ask. You'll be mainly be using 'Truth' and 'Doubt', as if you use 'Lie' you really want to have evidence to back up your statement, if you know they're blatantly telling porkies. I tend to be more bad cop-bad cop routine more than most, which doesn't help. Zero tolerance and all that. I wish there was an option for uneccesary roughness.
Apart from the main story arc, you can do very minor side missions during a case (which you get calls from the station from, providing you're in the right car) which mainly boil down to:
There is an odd one
but they're not as frequent, and these side missions don't last very long. A few minutes at most.
At the heart of the game you're still following a paper trail to get further down the rabbit hole, but it's not been done as cinematically as this. Apart from the so-so side missions between the meat of the investigation/ interrogation sequences, it does have a lot of atmosphere which catches a different side to 1940's Los Angeles e.g not mafioso inspired 1940's.
I just wish BioWare will take note of how to do facial animation tech for Mass Effect 3 as it really is the business.
I wish there were more lines of interrogation you could persue with the characters, as most seem to have 4-5 questions you could ask. You'll be mainly be using 'Truth' and 'Doubt', as if you use 'Lie' you really want to have evidence to back up your statement, if you know they're blatantly telling porkies. I tend to be more bad cop-bad cop routine more than most, which doesn't help. Zero tolerance and all that. I wish there was an option for uneccesary roughness.
Apart from the main story arc, you can do very minor side missions during a case (which you get calls from the station from, providing you're in the right car) which mainly boil down to:
- kill thugs
- chase thugs
There is an odd one
but they're not as frequent, and these side missions don't last very long. A few minutes at most.
At the heart of the game you're still following a paper trail to get further down the rabbit hole, but it's not been done as cinematically as this. Apart from the so-so side missions between the meat of the investigation/ interrogation sequences, it does have a lot of atmosphere which catches a different side to 1940's Los Angeles e.g not mafioso inspired 1940's.
I just wish BioWare will take note of how to do facial animation tech for Mass Effect 3 as it really is the business.
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