Inside the Cancelled LA Noire Sequel
4,578After the release of LA Noire in 2011, its developer Team Bondi crumbled while in the midst of developing a sequel, unfortunately, named "The Whore of the Orient." This is its story.
Special Thank You to Scott from Scott's Game Asylum and Josh from Panels to Pixels for lending their voices:
Scott's Game Asylum:
https://www.youtube.com/c/ScottsGameAsylum
Panels to Pixel:
https://www.youtube.com/c/PanelstoPixels
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Sources
Team Bondi: The First Interview
https://web.archive.org/web/20040311184049/https://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=54626
Rockstar Gets LA Noire
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/rockstar-gets-la-noire/1100-6158595/
LA Noire Motionscan Overview
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-13507355
Why Did LA Noire Take Seven Years to Develop?
https://www.ign.com/articles/2011/06/24/why-did-la-noire-take-seven-years-to-make
How LA Noire Recreated 1940s LA
https://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-05/using-extreme-aerial-photography-1920s-roc
kstar-rebuilt-1940s-los-angeles-la-noire/
Nobody Wants to Work With Team Bondi
https://kotaku.com/nobody-wants-to-work-with-la-noires-developers-boss-in-5827579
George Miller, KMM Interactive
https://web.archive.org/web/20120213182831/http://afr.com/p/george_miller_new_script_q1wYu1EFjLM0cyZa4s97fI
Brendan McNamara Eurogamer
https://www.eurogamer.net/brendan-mcnamara-is-making-the-video-game-of-the-greatest-untold-story-of-the-20th-century
Playstation Magazine Games “Whore of the Orient”
https://web.archive.org/web/20120207082906/http://www.officialplaystationmagazine.co.uk/2011/11/28/next-game-from-la-noire-director-called-whore-of-the-orient
Kotaku First Look
https://kotaku.com/here-s-the-first-look-at-whore-of-the-orient-the-next-5939199
Development Ongoing
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/team-bondis-whore-of-the-orient-hitting-next-gen-consoles-pc/1100-6393926/
Playstation Magazine Games “Whore of the Orient”
https://web.archive.org/web/20120207082906/http://www.officialplaystationmagazine.co.uk/2011/11/28/next-game-from-la-noire-director-called-whore-of-the-orient
Funding
https://www.gamesradar.com/whore-orient-production-gets-200000-funding/
Bulletpoint’s Report on the Interactive Media Fund
https://www.bulletpoint.com.au/interactive-media-fund/
Screen NSW:
https://www.screen.nsw.gov.au/funding/incentives/nsw-digital-games-rebate
Projects for NSW:
https://projectmanager.com.au/nsw-government-funds-7-new-media-projects-08122011/?fbclid=IwAR31bjFFtgGn8JugWMXlOInVrP8aSXSuoerRvTqhmmDdXss5ETJrFdP-F5w
Alex Carslyle’s New Digs
https://www.facebook.com/IntuitiveGameStudios/
Intuitive Game Studio
https://www.polygon.com/2013/5/28/4371962/former-la-noire-devs-establish-a-new-indie-game-dev-studio
Single Screenshot:
https://web.archive.org/web/20130421232705/http://www.mcvpacific.com/news/read/ephemeral-whore-of-the-orient-info-briefly-appears/0102136
Team Laid Off?
https://web.archive.org/web/20130421140603/http://www.mcvpacific.com/news/read/whore-of-the-orient-developers-laid-off/0114296
Alex Carlyle Interview
https://pixelenemy.com/l-a-noire-design-lead-alex-carlyle-talks-about-his-new-indie-studio-whore-of-the-orient-next-gen-and-more/
Layoffs, Broken Hyperlink
https://www.gamesradar.com/whore-orient-production-gets-200000-funding/
Leaked Footage Article:
https://www.videogamer.com/news/whore-of-the-orient-leaked-gameplay-footage-revealed/
Leaked Video Footage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDeejL6OPyA
Interview with Alex Carlyle (doesn’t know what Rockstar is doing with the franchise, game leak was “unfinished”)
https://pixelenemy.com/l-a-noire-design-lead-alex-carlyle-talks-about-his-new-indie-studio-whore-of-the-orient-next-gen-and-more/
Cancellation Podcast Interview w/ Derek Proud June 2016
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/derek-proud-garoo-games/id1073417631?i=1000371019007
Cancellation Article
https://web.archive.org/web/20160701095239/http://www.finder.com.au/whore-of-the-orient-cancelled
KMMIE Project Cancelled
https://www.polygon.com/2016/6/24/12023722/whore-of-the-orient-canceled
Video Game Deluxe LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/company/video-games-deluxe/about/
Video Game Deluxe doing San Andreas VR
https://80.lv/articles/video-games-deluxe-will-be-developing-gta-san-andreas-vr/
Don’t Count Out LA Noire 2
https://www.destructoid.com/rockstar-dont-count-out-another-l-a-noire-game/
LA Noire 2 From Rockstar
https://gamerant.com/la-noire-2-rumor/
LA Noire 2 Not GTA VI
https://metro.co.uk/2020/03/18/la-noire-part-2-rumoured-secret-rockstar-game-not-gta-6-12415750/
LA Noire 2 Rumor
https://vreviewblog.wordpress.com/2020/03/17/l-a-noire-part-two-likely-in-development/
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