Game and books - the best of all worlds?
Will
with Mulholland Books and eight of the thriller genre's best writers.
'L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories' features eight short stories from
renowned authors Megan Abbott, Lawrence Block, Joe Lansdale, Joyce
Carol Oates, Francine Prose, Jonathan Santlofer, Duane Swierczynski
and Andrew Vachss, many of which revisit the characters and cases in
the game, providing a new spin to tell the tales of emotionally torn
protagonists, depraved schemers and ill-fated victims - with new
stories appearing on the L.A. Noire official site leading up to and
through the May 17th release of L.A. Noire. The complete collection
will be made available for digital download on June 6th through all
major eBook retailers
http://www.rockstargames.com/lanoire/news/
Cross,Carl (Cultural & Community Services)
The experience of playing text adventures like Colossal Cave Zork is
very close to reading a book. Games have been bundled with books which
reward reading them with a richer or easier playing experience like
Melbourne House's the Hobbit and there were even some which demanded you
buy your own copy of the book like The Colour of Magic. I defy anyone
who has not read the book to survive the infamous "up a tree" sequence
in the latter!
But what this really reminded me of was this the Dark Wheel by Robert
Holdstock bundled with my copy of Elite:
http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/dkwheel.htm
Perhaps the first bit of proper SF that I ever read and it certainly
made the resulting game a much more immersive experience for me.
We've already got loads of videogame derived novelisations on our SF
shelves but with this and thriller Alan Wake pushing into more
mainstream crime/thriller territory how long before "normal" crime fans
find themselves reading about characters from videogames? Will it
encourage them to try the game? How often do you read these "extended
universe" novelisations?
I wonder if these stories will intersect with the game in anyway? To
offer clues or simply flesh out the backstory and will that make for a
richer experience?
Carl.
http://www.rockstargames.com/lanoire/news/
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characters, both in TV, film, books AND games, and believe it or not,
SOME of it is pretty good! I've read stuff with a good character and
then gone out and bought the game.
On May 6, 3:26 pm, "Cross,Carl (Cultural & Community Services)"
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