My sensory organs were out in all their geekish magnificence today as I stumbled upon Rockstar Games’ trailer for their latest project, L.A. Noire.

Visually inspired by the detective film noir genre of the 1940s this looks set to be a tantric climax on methamphetamine for die-hard Rockstar fans. Of course Rockstar brought you franchises such as Grand Theft Auto, Max Payne and Red Dead Redemption.

Expect plenty of gloomily-lit crime, corruption, sex and moral ambiguity from the gaming developers who create open-world features as effortlessly as Tobey Maguire made Spiderman so bloody annoying.

The game is set for release in Spring 2011 (in the USA) and I would imagine buyers will flock to outlets ye olde scrummaging-style to get their itchy thumbs a copy. If it’s anything like the GTA series and RDR you’d expect the game to revolve around a semi-reformed character, out on a personal quest for some sort of meaning, all the while driving into prostitutes and confronting lunatics and heartless mobsters who make Ed Norton’s character in American History X seem like somebody you’d want to go bowling with. Wrong: it appears that in this case you’ll play a cocksure copper out to sweep the streets of L.A. with a bunch of mobsters’ pinstriped backsides.

Here’s the debut trailer, and I’m sure you’ll agree that Rockstar might just know what they’re doing.

[Source : IGN]