Noire remains a game that is fundamentally at odds with itself—but I kind of love it anyway. In an era plagued by busywork-infused "map games," L. Noire is an outlier—strange and misshapen and fundamentally unlike any other triple-A title released before or since. And when the case ends, you get a detailed report that runs down every embarrassing error you made along the way. On one early case , I chased down a man with schizophrenia who had attacked another man in broad daylight.
Case closed, I guess. And then I looked up the case online, and discovered that it was actually possible to catch and detain the schizophrenic man before he leapt from the roof. I had failed, but L.
I just had to live with being the L. It should be hard to be a detective—confusing and frustrating and often unpleasant, and the game's smartest flourishes and dumbest flaws somehow combine to create that effect. The game uses a distinctive coloring style, as well as including the choice of a grayscale filter, in homage to traditional film noir.
The post-war setting is the backdrop for plot elements that reference history and detective films of the time, such as corruption and veteran trauma, accompanied by a classical jazz soundtrack. The gameplay of L. Noire is similar to that of other crime-based adventure and third-person action games. However, the roles are reversed.
By finishing cases , Phelps rises through the ranks of the LAPD , from a regular patrol officer all the way to a widely respected Vice detective. Supplementary modes of play include driving, shooting and hand-to-hand combat, but the bulk of the game is comprised of investigation , which can require combing through crime scenes , following leads, solving puzzles or tailing suspects, and the signature interrogation mechanic, for which the game's proprietary MotionScan facial animation technology was developed, which allows the player to read each character's exact expressions when attempting to deduce the veracity of their statements.
The main story campaign is largely linear and mission-based, but the open world every chapter takes place in can be freely explored at almost any time, with various collectibles and side missions scattered throughout; for these, the game additionally includes a free-roam mode, The Streets of L.
In , working with his partner Ralph Dunn Rodney Scott , Phelps successfully and almost singlehandedly solves a murder case, impressing the captain of the Homicide department, James Donnelly Andrew Connelly , who helps promote him to detective. Around this time, he begins falling for German lounge singer Elsa Lichtmann Erika Heynatz , and eventually has an extramarital affair with her. Unknown to him, Roy Earle Adam J. Harrington , his partner in Vice and a corrupt cop, uses this information to help several prominent figures in the city cover up a major scandal by making him a distraction for the media, in exchange for a place in a syndicate known as the " Suburban Redevelopment Fund " SRF —an illegitimate development program that claims to supply housing for homecoming WWII veterans.
When his adultery is exposed, Phelps becomes disgraced within the LAPD, hated by Los Angeles at large, is demoted to work in Arson , and his wife kicks him out, leaving him to go live with Elsa. Just prior to this, Phelps discovered that several Marines of his former unit had been selling morphine syrettes stolen from the ship that had taken them home, the S.
Coolridge , which later led to most of them being assassinated by mobsters working for Mickey Cohen Patrick Fischler , who held major control of the drug trade and resented the competition; most of the stolen drugs remained unaccounted for by the time he was demoted, after which he was unable to pursue the case any further. While investigating a pair of suspicious house fires with his partner in Arson, Herschel Biggs Keith Szarabajka , Phelps notes a connection between them and the housing company Elysian Fields , but is explicitly warned by Earle not to investigate it's founder and CEO, tycoon land developer Leland Monroe John Noble.
Cole doesn't go ask himself, not just due to the legally dubious nature of a police detective outsourcing an unauthorized investigation to an outside party, but also because of their complicated and unsavory personal history from serving together in the war. Kelso quickly discovers that the development is using unsuitable building materials for the houses, which could potentially indicate an intent to quickly destroy them later.
After escaping pursuit from a bevy of Monroe's goons attempting to keep him from the truth, he is given an offer by Assistant District Attorney Leonard Petersen Larry Sullivan to become a D. Investigator, to which he accepts. Kelso and Phelps eventually learn from their investigations that the Fund is merely a front for an entirely different objective: to defraud the US Federal Government. Run by several local businessmen, dignitaries, as well as Monroe and Chief of Police William Worrell Ryan Cutrona , the syndicate had learned the proposed route for the Whitnall Parkway that was to go through the Wilshire district of the city, and thus bought the land it would run through.
Further investigations reveal that Courtney Sheldon Chad Todhunter , another corpsman of Phelps and Kelso's former unit, had been involved in the theft of the morphine Phelps was investigating while in Vice. Sign in to add this item to your wishlist, follow it, or mark it as ignored.
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