There are a million stories in this naked city, but the Naked City story for L.A. Noire is only yours if you preorder the game through GameStop.
Since L.A. Noire’s particular flavour of police investigation action is episodic, standalone cases make excellent preorder gifts. That’s what Rockstar Games is doing with Naked City, which sees Detective Cole Phelps investigating the murder of a gorgeous model.
Preordering the game from GameStop also unlocks the Badge Pursuit Challenge, scattering 20 police badges around Los Angeles for players to collect in exchange for fabulous prizes.
I wouldn’t worry too much about the episode being exclusive for long. That’s far too much work to limit it to a select group of customers.
L.A. Noire is coming in May to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
ThrashTitan
Friday, March 4, 2011 at 11:09 AMI hope your right. I really dislike exclusive game changing content. Im ok with extra costumes for a particular preorder, but not this.
weresmurf
Friday, March 4, 2011 at 11:52 AMThis is yet another horseshit case of having to selectively preorder or buy from a specific place just to get a complete game… friggin hell.
CyK
Friday, March 4, 2011 at 3:33 PMOr worse yet, having to buy 3 games from 3 different retailers to get the full experience.
Tonez
Friday, April 1, 2011 at 1:12 PMSo long as all episodes are available on XBLA for purchase at a reasonable price, I’ll be okay.