Team Bondi director Brendan McNamara thinks that the MotionScan technology used in L.A. Noire is powerful enough that it will even make Hollywood stand up and notice. He thinks its a sign that games can compete head on with TV and film for storytelling.
“If you take all the strengths of what’s great about a video game and you take all the strengths of what’s great about cinema and film you can get this amazing new product and what that means is video games become the pre-eminent entertainment form for the 21st century,” said McNamara, who added, “We’ve had all sorts of approaches from different people wanting to use it for medicine and for security and people like law enforcement wanting it for lying simulators to show operatives how to read faces.
Source: BBC
