Vincent Kartheiser Where you've seen him: He was once cast as David Boreanaz unspeakably irritating son Connor in Angel. Did I bring in the wrong guy? This (slightly insane) sense of responsibility for a video game character isn't normal and it's a credit to Grunberg's portrayal that I felt it. Hours after I'd finished his case I found myself thinking about Hugo Moller. Grunberg is so convincing that I failed his interrogation the first time, and had to start the case again. He can't be bothered to defend himself with any gusto, so convinced is he that you're setting him up for a fall, and this makes for a really compelling, memorable character. With his shifty eyes and a history of violence, Moller is hiding something - but what is it? What he brings to the role: Even as the evidence mounts up against him, you can't help but feel sorry for Moller as Grunberg plays the character with an air of world-weary resignation. In LA Noire: Here Grunberg is a working stiff named Hugo Moller, a suspect in a case investigating the death of his wife.
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Like many in the LA Noire ensemble, Grunberg is a US TV journeyman, with roles in Monk, House, Alias and Lost counted amongst his credits. Greg Grunberg Where you've seen him: NBC drama Heroes may have been unceremoniously canned after its fourth lacklustre season, but there is life after the show for Greg Grunberg, the actor behind LAPD police officer/mind-reader Matt Parkman. There are minor plot spoilers after the drop. If you don't recognise at least half of the actors below: you aren't watching enough television. Here's my pick of the thesps you can expect to chase, badger and berate as you play through it.
But there are literally dozens more (maybe as many as fifty) recognisable actors in the game. I'm sure many of you know that, taking the role of detective Cole Phelps (above), the game's star is none other than Aaron Staton (AKA Mad Men's Ken Cosgrove). Happily, the game is replete with recognisable actors, many of whom are from top American TV shows. If the characters weren't "real", the whole enterprise would fall down flat. They couldn't afford to have their characters sound like the cast of a 90s SEGA coin-op. Yet Rockstar needed more than just technology if they were to create dozens of distinct characters capable of displaying a wide range of recognisable emotions - they needed proper actors. This gameplay mechanic wouldn't have been possible without the technology backing it up, as LA Noire boasts frighteningly realistic and often incredibly subtle facial expressions.
This development has enabled Rockstar's Team Bondi to focus the bulk of the game around gauging the facial expressions of crime suspects. But what you most certainly know is that it boasts fantastic, hitherto unprecedented, motion capture for a video game. You just might have heard that it was the first video game to bag a slot at the Robert De Nero's Tribeca Film Festival, back in April. Herschel Biggs: You know, Phelps - you're not the worst asshole going around.If you know anything about video games you'll know by now that LA Noire is a detective thriller, set in 1940s Los Angeles and made by Rockstar - the same guys behind Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption. If you let this creep anywhere near it, I will come looking for you. Make sure technical services bag the evidence. Roy Earle: I got better things to do than argue the rub with you.Ĭole Phelps: Stay with him until the coroner gets here. Your vast corrupt future is draining away as we speak. Roy Earle: You've finally lost it, partner.Ĭole Phelps: I have a pretty good idea why Sheldon is dead, and I know about Monroe. You say one more word about him and I will BLOW YOUR FUCKING HEAD OFF!
He was a better man than you'll ever know. He was involved in the morphine heist, but he has a puncture wound in his jugular, which makes it a murder case. He was either naive enough or dumb enough to get involved in the Suburban Development Fund along with the mayor, D.A., Monroe, and a certain crooked cop. 45 and into places that made the Valley of Death look like a picnic. He served his country! He went out with a medical kit and an Army. Now is the time to be quiet, son.Ĭole Phelps: Courtney Sheldon was a corpsman, Roy.
Herschel Biggs: There's a time to talk and a time to shut up. Patrolman James Mitchell: Hey, Detective? Can we back it off a notch? This is getting out of hand! Roy Earle: I knew this creep was in on the morphine heist. This is my case.Ĭole Phelps: Shut your fucking mouth. Patrolman James Mitchell: Looks like an overdose.
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