Tom Crago: L. A. Noire will take another year, also coming to Xbox 360
Whatever happened to Rockstar Games and Team Bondi’s L.A. Noire? It’s been quite a while since we heard anything about it. Well thankfully, the silence has been broken by Tom Crago, president of Game Developers’ Association of Australia. He’s got a prediction and lots of high hopes for the game, and at least for now, it’s enough to reassure us that this game has not been dumped in the vaporeware bin.
It’s been a while since we heard anything on Rockstar Games and Team Bondi’s next-gen adventure title, L.A. Noire. That’s about to change today, though, as we picked up on updates from no less than Tom Crago, CEO of Tantalus and president of Game Developers’ Association of Australia.
Speaking at the GC Asia 2008 yesterday, Crago said “it’s got – I’d suggest – another year or so to go.” He also predicted that it may very well be “the biggest budget videogame in development in the world. It would certainly… in terms of console titles, be in the top ten… L.A. Noire is a massive massive project.”
If that’s the case, then it’s starting to make sense why the devs have been keeping mum about it. Although, despite this whole secrecy going on, there still have been a lot of rumors going on about the exclusivity of the said title. It was originally announced to be a PS3 exclusive title, however, unconfirmed reports surfaced early this year that it will also be brought over to the PS3.
Crago’s statement on this does little to quiet the rumor down as he mentioned that it will be coming to both the PS3 and the Xbox 360. Neither Rockstar nor Team Bondi have said anything about this, however.
Regardless, L.A. Noire is being looked at as the game that will put Australia back in the videogames development map.
It’s one that we hold huge hopes for. It has been said about Australia that we’ve not been successful putting out a title that really has set the world on fire; a big budget title that’s sold multiple million copies and that has really put us on the map as a hub for videogame development. There are plenty of people who are hoping that L.A. Noire will be that title.
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