Hey man. i know you posted this a loooong time ago, but I just stumbled across it in looking for noir quotes online. Aside from Max Payne, which IS amazing, really really good, both of em, I can recomend 2 more, maybe even more up your alley. They arent first person shooters, or action games. They are adventure games. Like, puzzle solving. Grim Fandango, which is absolutely hilarious, and Discworld Noir, a gritty detective game, set in Discworld (the character was created for the game, but theres about 35 discworld novels written by Terry Pratchett. amazing books, every one.) both games have amazing stories, wonderful environments, great and memorable characters, gritty stories and dialogue, and are both frankly hilarious. The only problem with it is that both games are older, so you may have some problems getting em to run on vista or xp. SHOULD beable to get them to work for xp, might take a little bit of work though. just a heads up. hope that helps, if you're still even interested in finding more noir type games. :)
Seriously. I was thinking this EXACT same thing from almost the second I started playing AC. I mean, I've been blabbering on to all my friends that this game just SCREAMS for a new thief game to be born from it, they all just dismiss it, mainly because they've never played any of the thief games. but OH MY GOD its the perfect engine. add the blackjack, a nighttime setting, and indoor areas with lots of loot to steal, and you have yourself one of the best games of all time in the making. I've heard that Looking Glass Studio, the ones who made Thief, have gone out of business, which definitely sucks, and Eidos is the company who picked it up. They either need to hand the rights over to Ubisoft, or Ubisoft needs to hand over the AC engine, because any new thief game coming out without the AC engine just wont feel right. AC IS Thief. it has to be.
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