{"id":1558,"date":"2011-12-12T13:28:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T21:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=1558"},"modified":"2011-12-12T13:44:20","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T21:44:20","slug":"la-noire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/2011\/12\/12\/la-noire\/","title":{"rendered":"L.A. Noire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not a video gamer. No, no, no! Not at all! But to my great surprise there is now a computer game I could see myself getting excited about: <a title=\"L.A. Noir\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/L.A._Noire\" target=\"_blank\">L.A. Noire<\/a>.\u00a0Its simulation of 1940s Los Angeles is simply stunning and mindboggling.<\/p>\n<p>This is not an invented landscape! This is a representation of the authentic streets, buildings, landmarks and vehicles which really existed at the time, and the players navigate on a true map of the city.\u00a0Here is a simulated police chase through downtown Los Angeles, circa 1947:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"450\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wdm2uFxFWHY?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"450\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wdm2uFxFWHY?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I never thought I&#8217;d say this, but this has gone on my &#8220;must try&#8221; list. Not that I&#8217;d really want to &#8220;solve a crime&#8221; or actually play the game &#8212; I&#8217;d be content with cruising around vintage Los Angeles for hours and hours.<\/p>\n<div id=\"apf_post_footer\">\n<h4>Related Articles:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3449\">A Space Poster With Mysterious Origins<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3445\">Coat And Hat Stands<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3299\">Life Magazine Covers<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3274\">A Los Angeles Roadmap From 1917<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3230\">The Garden Of Allah<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not a video gamer. No, no, no! Not at all! But to my great surprise there is now a computer game I could see myself getting excited about: L.A. Noire.\u00a0Its simulation of 1940s Los Angeles is simply stunning and mindboggling. This is not an invented landscape! This is a representation of the authentic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,29,1,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americana","category-los-angeles","category-uncategorized","category-vintage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1558"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1561,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions\/1561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}