10 Most Unique Mystery Video Games Ever
4. L.A. Noire
The opportunity to solve a mystery as a hard boiled film noir detective is too good to pass up. Set in the Golden Age of Hollywood - when the noir mystery genre was born - LA Noire has you solving one of the most grisly and notorious homicide cases in history: The Black Dahlia.
In 1947, a young woman named Elizabeth Short was killed in a brutal fashion. Despite hundreds of suspects and years of police investigation, her killer was never found. In L.A. Noire, however, the Black Dahlia killer didn't stop with Elizabeth Short, he continued brutally murdering a number of women in the Los Angeles area. Along with a slew of other cases, L.A. Noire puts you in the shoes of Cole Phelps as he attempts to solve the case of the century.
Team Bondi's L.A. Noire is known for being one of the first successful motion capture games ever created. Although there is some disagreement upon whether or not it's a good game, the details of the story and the atmosphere can only count as positives. If you enjoy the feeling of nostalgia for post-WWII America, you should absolutely take some time to try L.A. Noire.