PC-wise, theres very little new to report. No performance problems I encountered, the mandatory requirement for (mercifully in-game only, no external app this time) Rockstar Social Club is fleetingly annoying, the mouse works in the menus
Getting all the DLC in the meta-box rather than doled out expensively over successive months is helpful, even if the new, standalone cases feel too abstracted from the main game (cf Deus Ex: The Missing Link), but it means a fuller package and more chances to play spot the Mad Men supporting actors. The controls dont feel quite right, primarily because a gamepad rumble function was so fundamental to sniffing out clue locations: driving and the clunksome shooting are fine on the good old mouse and keyboard, comparable to GTA IV, but I did default to a pad in the end for the rumble alone. Of course, real men turn off all the clue prompts and just use their eyeballs, but Im scarcely a real man.
The PC build looks better than the console build without looking dramatically better, primarily due to those clumsy wooden bodies, but its that pointless city that benefits the most. More detail, more draw distance, more brief satisfaction in soaking it all up before moping that theres nothing to do except drive to the next crime scene, where at least youll lose yourself in diligently sniffing at abandoned cigarette packs and gruesomely investigating glassy-eyed bodies for clues. LA Noire is more than capable of being mesmeric, but I wish theyd ditched the pretence of open-world and poured those resources into fleshing out the unrelenting logic system instead.