Point in fact, you just don’t get great lines like this in the majority of games on the market; “We scraped along like rats, but now we will soar like eagles…eagles on pogo sticks!

LA Noire got me thinking about another great Noir Game: Grim Fandango. I reviewed it 8 years ago for Adventure Gamers (have I really been writing for them that long!?!).

It is still considered an absolute classic. With witty dialogue, winning characters, and a fantastic story line it makes you miserable that is one of the last great adventures from Lucas Arts. Before they forsook their God given place as Adventure Game Gods, and decided to just turn out rote Star Wars games. So sad. I guess we are just going to have soar like eagles on pogo sticks all on our own.

My friend Derek turned me onto this game. Won't be released until Sept 2010, but it looks FANTASTIC. When I saw the street view in the trailer, I could just imagine playing on my big screen and being in my own private LA Confidential.Only thing I can't tell from this trailer or the sites info is if there is going to be a femme fatale, I hope they include one, half the time its the women that make Film Noir great.

For those of you not in the know, I am a Film Noir fanatic. Watched them all, or as many of them as I could get my hands on, they are not always so easy to come by. Have read everything by James Ellroy, the Demon Dog of current Crime Fiction and Noir. If you haven't, you should start with his LA Quartet. I aways say to people reading Ellory is like being punched in the stomach then slapped in the face. His writing is punctuated, biting, unremorseful, and totally addictive. He gives steamy underbellies a good name.