James Noir's Hollywood Crimes

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James Noir's Hollywood Crimes
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Developer(s) Ubisoft Montreal
Publisher(s) Ubisoft
Platform(s) Nintendo 3DS, iOS
ReleaseNintendo 3DS
  • NA: November 1, 2011
  • AU: November 24, 2011
  • EU: November 25, 2011
iOS
June 21, 2012
Genre(s) Puzzle

James Noir's Hollywood Crimes (known in Europe as James Noir's Hollywood Crimes 3D) is a puzzle game developed by Ubisoft for the Nintendo 3DS [1] and iOS. The game is set within a TV game show in the 1960s and the player must solve puzzles to defeat a mysterious criminal mastermind. The player takes on the role of a contestant working their way through 6 stages of a game show as Hollywood becomes the staging ground for a set of gruesome crimes. The game stars Elias Toufexis who played Adam Jensen in Deus Ex: Human Revolution . [2]

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Reception

The game received "mixed" reviews on both platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [3] [4]

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