Editor’s note: This week sees the re-release of L.A. Noire on PS4, Xbox One and Switch, and to mark the occasion we thought we’d return to Chris Donlan’s piece on playing through the game – still one of the very best things ever published on Eurogamer, he’ll hate me for saying – which first went live back in 2012. Enjoy! Today, I’m going to tell you about the time my grandfather shot a man in the ass. The year was 1949. The place was downtown Los Angeles. The occasion was a robbery with violence. A small store, I think: a tailor’s, or maybe a family-run grocery market? History has not recorded all of the details. It’s recorded some of the details, though. “The guy was getting away,” my dad explained to me the other day. “He was running fast and he’d pulled a gun. In those days, in that city, when somebody pulled a gun on a cop, the cop had to pull a gun in return. The objective back then was that you had to shoot to kill. You never shot to wound.” Dad paused. Blinked. “But dad wouldn’t have been able to live with himself if he’d killed…