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I'll bite. I recently played L.A. Noire on the PC. It's kind of like GTA with the ability to drive around in free roam, but it's more story driven, as you're always in a mission. The game takes place in the 1940's and you're a detective in the LAPD after serving in World War II. The storyline is built around the drug scene in LA, and also how you and your fellow marines from WWII come back to LA and fit back into society. The game came out in 2011 I believe.
Storyline: Absolutely amazing and the reason to play the game. The story is soooo good. You have the ability to interrogate people, and actual actors (a lot of them are from Mad Men) did not just voice acting, but actual acting for characters. So during an interrogation you can look at someone's eyes or how their acting and determine if they're lying or not. The acting throughout the game is absolutely amazing and made me want to watch the cut scenes, which I normally skip. You solve arson cases, traffic cases, homocides, and other stuff. The game can be pretty graphic, even if it's just a video game, it's still gory as hell, so if you're not interested in that stuff you might not wanna play it. Many of the cases are based off of real life, which is both fascinating and absolutely horrifying that real people did this stuff.
Challenge: The game is pretty easy, because even if you mess up an interrogation and miss some clues on a crime scene, you pretty much always have enough evidence to continue. There's some gun fights and car chases mixed in but they're all pretty easy. The only missions I really struggled with are the GTA car-trail mission where you have to follow someone, but stay out of their sight, and I struggled because I'm impatient as hell.
Replayability: I think maybe a year from now I'll want to play it again. There's collectables throughout the map, and you have the option to replay any mission you want, but the story is more interesting than the actual missions.
Graphics: The graphics are pretty normal, except for the acting and interrogation scenes which are phenomenal.
Online functionality: There are DLC's which I didn't play. Also, when solving a case, you can use a "lifeline" where you see how everyone else in Rockstar's Social Club did. There's no online mode so that's pretty much all there is to it.
Downloadable content: Again, there's DLC's but I didn't play them.
AI / NPC's: The AI is nice, you can actually have your partner drive you everywhere which is cool. The NPC's are typical Rockstar NPC's, they say random funny quotes and just walk around. There's not much else to them though.
Price: I got it in the Steam sale a few years ago for like $5, so I'd wait till it goes on sale again when it'd cheap.
Length of gameplay: I beat the game in 3 days, it's not very long. However, this is the type of game you should play in tiny bursts. If you play it all at once, kinda like me, the missions can be kind of repetitive and lose their luster. If you play it over a few weeks or a month, I guarantee they'd be much more fun. However I was so into the story that I wanted to beat it just to find out how it ended.
Overall, I'd give it an 8 of 10. I was really impressed by this game and really hope that a sequel comes out.
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