Thu, Aug 30, 2012 | 14:37 BST

Whore of the Orient: LA Noire team’s new PS4, Xbox 720 game detailed

Whore of the Orient is the next game from LA Noire developer Team Bondi. It’s heading to next-gen consoles. The team has also revealed the game’s first screenshot.

A statement on the official Whore of the Orient website reads: “Shanghai, 1936. Whore of the Orient. Paris of the East. The most corrupt and decadent city on the planet, where anything can be had or done for the right price. Plaything of Western powers who greedily exploit the Chinese masses. Boiling pot of Chinese nationalism, with the Kuomintang ruthlessly trying to suppress Communism and the labour movement. Home to the International Police Force, a group of Western cops hopelessly trying to keep the lid on and keep the peace.”

“From the development team who brought you L.A. Noire and The Getaway, along with the Academy Award winning film production team of Kennedy Miller Mitchell comes a completely new and original IP being developed for next generation games consoles and PC.”

Whore of the Orient was first revealed in November last year, and is to be published by Warner.

Thanks OPM.

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39 comments

#1

earlyrock
30/08/12, 1:27 pm

And that’s probably all we’ll get for about 7 years.

#2

Hunam
30/08/12, 1:36 pm

I honestly can’t see myself buying a game with the word Whore slapped on the front of it.

#3

loki
30/08/12, 1:39 pm

pc fail

#4

Hunam
30/08/12, 1:42 pm

:D

I fucking love you loki.

#5

Moonwalker1982
30/08/12, 1:49 pm

Oooooh now this is interesting!!!

#6

YoungZer0
30/08/12, 1:49 pm

As long as Brendan McNamara is not attached, the project could actually see the light of day in this decade.

#7

Erthazus
30/08/12, 1:50 pm

Not interested at all.

L.A. Noir concept was fantastic, but in the end the game was a mediocracy although facial animation was great and stuff.

#8

mad1723
30/08/12, 1:52 pm

It’s funny how Loki just fails horribly at trolling. It says that it also comes to PC, because anyway PC is now the new platform for the next-gen developpment anyway while Microsoft and Sony are stuck with 7 year old hardware ^^

#9

YoungZer0
30/08/12, 1:54 pm

@7: I’d actually say that the game was a complete disaster.

#10

DSB
30/08/12, 1:59 pm

McNamara is a good writer, but he does suck at making games.

@2 We both know that’s not true.

#11

Moonwalker1982
30/08/12, 2:00 pm

LA Noire a complete disaster? Hell no. I enjoyed that game alot!

#12

Fin
30/08/12, 2:09 pm

Not a fan of having the word Whore in the title… Seems unnecessary…

#13

Triple-H
30/08/12, 2:12 pm

That awkward moment when they start revealing new IPs for still to be revealed consoles

#14

Strange Sultan
30/08/12, 2:15 pm

the game will not be sold in my country with the word WHORE on the box.

#15

Gheritt White
30/08/12, 2:19 pm

I like the title, but they should push the envelope.

Sluts of the Orient would be *way* more marketable.

#16

ManuOtaku
30/08/12, 2:21 pm

I got the feelling this will not be the retail name for this title.

Having said that, i did like L.A Noire and i will be looking torwards their next game, i did like it more than Heavy Rain.

#17

Old MacDonald
30/08/12, 2:26 pm

Whore of the Orient is an actual term, guys. It refers to Shanghai.

#18

TD_Monstrous69
30/08/12, 2:30 pm

Loved LA Noire, so can’t wait to see more on this. Hopefully, this doesn’t take 7 years, and the broken wills of ex employees to do it.

#19

KrazyKraut
30/08/12, 2:32 pm

“so….to know how a whore feels at work, McNamara will watch over this project”

#20

OwnedWhenStoned
30/08/12, 2:34 pm

In this case, Loki is probably right. I bought LA Noire in the Steam sale and have never been able to play it. Can’t even get past the title screen.

Won’t be buying this, that’s for sure.

#21

freedoms_stain
30/08/12, 2:39 pm

@20, pretty doubtful that they’re using RAGE or any other Rockstar technologies, so pretty irrelevant.

#22

OwnedWhenStoned
30/08/12, 2:56 pm

@21

Maybe. Still makes me think twice before going anywhere near it. They haven’t exactly got a great reputation for work on the PC…

#23

ToxicCrusader
30/08/12, 5:09 pm

Looks interesting.

Name will probably get changed before it releases though.

#24

ejams
30/08/12, 5:21 pm

Didn’t Team Bondi get shuttered after LA Noire? I know I’m missing something here

#25

DSB
30/08/12, 5:26 pm

@24 Nah, they got dumped by Rockstar as I recall? And a lot of people left because McNamara is a cunt to work for.

#26

ejams
30/08/12, 5:38 pm

Oh, okay. I thought they got into a huge debt from that special tech for fancy facial expressions and had to close down.

But this is interesting. I too don’t imagine that being the final release title, just because the word ‘whore’ presses some of the wrong buttons for people (even if it does have a meaning).

#27

Phoenixblight
30/08/12, 5:39 pm

@25

Not true Team BOndi was bought up by another company and McNamara went with them along with most of the team.

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/08/09/report-team-bondi-sells-assets-to-mad-max-studio-kmm-staff-of/

#28

DSB
30/08/12, 5:53 pm

@27 Oh right, okay. Close enough.

#29

Phoenixblight
30/08/12, 5:57 pm

This is also Brendan McNamara’s second game he spoke up about the concept in an interview.

#30

YoungZer0
30/08/12, 6:04 pm

@29: Fail. No way this is going to get done. Ever. If so, it’s probably going to be just as bad as LA Noire.

#31

DSB
30/08/12, 6:07 pm

@29 Well, he also lead development on The Getaway.

#32

Phoenixblight
30/08/12, 6:13 pm

@31

I know that but he spoke about a game that he wanted to do in China during the 30′s, this would be it.

@30

KMM wanted Brendan that was part of the deal.

#33

YoungZer0
30/08/12, 10:17 pm

@32: Just goes to show what kind of company they are, that they don’t care about things like ‘work environment’.

#34

Phoenixblight
30/08/12, 10:44 pm

@33

Well there is a way of controlling that aspect like removing the amount of control he has and just make him part of the concept crew. He could have power over what the game is about but no power over the resources. THere are more people like this in the industry than there are otherwise. Most of the time the companies put them in a remote area in the studio at least that’s what I have seen in my experience. Team Bondi in LA Noire just didn’t have a way to keep him in check since it was his studio.

#35

absolutezero
30/08/12, 11:05 pm

I hope theres even more character breaking moments of sheer lunacy like the interview segments of LA Noire. Getting them wrong on purpose is more fun than the actual game itself.

#36

DSB
30/08/12, 11:07 pm

Why did I never think of that?

Usually when you did what the manual suggested you got it wrong.

Because maybe they knew that you knew about the flickering eyes, or maybe you knew that they knew, that you knew…

That’s great logic for a videogame :P

#37

absolutezero
30/08/12, 11:13 pm

Theres some truely staggering segments as Cole bellows in innocent peoples faces.

He keeps on getting promoted though, Cole Phelps the worst best cop in the city.

#38

DSB
30/08/12, 11:59 pm

@37 That part feels totally realistic to me. It’s a police force, not a meritocracy :D

#39

Christopher Jack
31/08/12, 1:50 am

They’re going to have to change the name.
By the way, I enjoyed L.A. Noire. Not the greatest game ever made but still a good one.

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