8 Video Games With Cut Content That Would've Been Awesome

4. Burglary And Bunco Desks - L.A. Noire

L.A. Noire may be a proper classic of the last generation of consoles, but it had a fairly notorious development cycle. Crunch culture was endemic at Sydney-based Team Bondi and there was further fallout when it emerged numerous developers who worked on the game weren't listed in the credits. The surrounding controversies effectively destroyed the studio's working relationship with Rockstar, which was already in a rocky place after multiple clashes between the two companies during L.A. Noire's rocky development.

Even so, the game was a major success, scoring praise from outlets and selling millions of copies in the process. The finished product - while not without its flaws - boasts a well-crafted story and a decent enough running time, clocking in around the 20-hour mark. One thing players may not realise though is that the game was actually meant to be longer too, with Bondi co-founder and L.A. Noire director Brendan McNamara having revealed that burglary and bunko (fraud) desks were also meant to be included.

Bunko and Burglary are both mentioned in game, and would've supposedly brought an additional 11 investigations to the title. The reason why they weren't included? Well, according to McNamara, it was because they wouldn't have all fitted onto one Blu-ray disc.

"We had a Bunko and Burglary desk - bunko is fraud and burglary is just people robbing houses and stuff... We had 11 full cases for that, which we wrote and did the design for to a certain extent - we even did the art for them too, but it just got to a point where we were never going to fit it on one Blu-ray."

It's a shame they never made it for the final cut, but given L.A. Noire originally shipped with THREE discs anyway, it's understandable that they were reluctant to add another.