the recent detective thriller L.A. Noire that released last month actually had been in development for quite some time. In fact it was seven years and it wasn't a Duke Nukem kinda thing the game was in production the whole time. during its development it had changed publishers midway through from Sony to Rockstar.

There were many reasons that it took so long to make but much of it was that the game had been the biggest project for any developer in Australia, and the force behind the production were mostly new and had this as their first project. Some of the other reasons that were stated said that the management had been terrible in a variety of different ways from abuse to insane money spending on the project.

After the projects boss spent a reported "tens of millions" on equipment in just one year the publisher at the time Sony had decided to drop the title even though they had great faith in the title after their last project. The decision had been made solely because the price tag had far exceeded what Sony wanted to pay. This event hurt the company's ability greatly and caused many more problems with the development but they were able to be brought back up by a new publisher Rockstar Games.

Rockstar had been determined to make sure this game was great. They even spent more that Sony had just to be sure the game would turn out. While under Rockstars wing the games had been ported to other systems, revamped, and even went through four different delays.

Ultimatly in the end of it all Rockstar had been right as the game had been a total success. with its release in May the games has had roughly three million sales world wide and just under 900,000 in its debut.