At some point in the development of this game, the developers started to look at it less like a game and more like a movie. When you look at it from the outside, it looks like a GTA or Mafia game, but once you start playing it, you immediately realize that there are serious differences. Unfortunately, none of these differences are good. The gameplay is way too difficult. The detective mechanics are too complicated and you get bored of the game very quickly. One of the other biggest reasons for the game's lack of success was the developers' insistence on using the most advanced facial animation rendering technology available at the time. L.A Noire would have been a much more memorable and popular game if they had focused on other aspects of the game instead of spending so much time on this, and probably the development company would not have been shut down. In short, L.A Noire was a boring, unsuccessful and average game for me, with a good story but overly difficult and complex gameplay.