Team Bondi ponders Fraud, Burglary for LA Noire DLC

LA Noire will offer four police desks to work on plus a short stint as a foot patrolman, but Team Bondi already has ideas for further work for protagonist Cole Phelps.

Over the course of the game Phelps will work on the Traffic, Homicide, Vice and Arson desks – but this notably leaves two other important areas ignored, as Team Bondi founder Martin McNamara mentioned in an a recent interview with 1UP.

“…As I said earlier, we’ve got two full desks – burglary and bunko [fraud] – that never made it into the game, so we’ve been thinking about those and whether we’ll do them.”

McNamara also stated that his studio had already begun work on their next game: “We’re actually working on a new project idea now, so we’re kicking that around as well. Most of the team are on holiday, to be honest.”

Yesterday news surfaced of a Day One DLC “Rockstar Pass” for LA Noire – although no-one knows what that is yet.

Burglary and bunko could both make excellent additions to the game, and since each desk represents a hefty selection of cases, it would be easy to imagine these jobs featuring as a major DLC add-on. That said, it seems unlikely that the developer would cut a massive chunk of near-complete content; it’s more likely that the desks were planned or discussed and then left out, rather than being crafted and then cut.

After the epic expansions for GTA IV, Rockstar seemed keener on releasing smaller dollops of DLC for Red Dead Redemption – Undead Nightmare was the only add-on to provide major single-player content. All the same, we’d be amazed if downloadable cases don’t eventually pop up in some form or another.