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If it seems like I'm stressing those words a little too hard, let me fill you in on L.A. In it you play a detective who's supposed to be solving crimes.

So when we get to the last mission of the game, and cops are swarming the streets of Los Angeles (and possibly the sewers), desperate to murder Jack Kelso and Cole Phelps, we're left wondering where all these dirty cops have been for the rest of the game.

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He just reveals a morally questionable thing that Cole actually did of his own free will. That's right-the game's worst cop doesn't even frame Cole. He's the epitome of corruption on the police force in the game, and literally the worst thing he does is rat out Cole for cheating on his wife, so the higher ups will have something to feed to the newspapers, which they hope will be sensational enough to knock coverage of a prostitution scandal off the front page.

The only proof we have that he's even actually corrupt is that John Noble (ridiculously) keeps a ledger with the real names of all the people he's bribing on it, along with the day and amount of all the payments. We never see him frame anyone, kill anyone-even slap someone around. But he literally never does anything questionable. We're supposed to dismiss him as corrupt because he has a nice car and is on speaking terms with a mob boss. See this guy? He's Roy Earle-Cole corrupt partner. Of Cole's four partners in the game, two are completely honest paragons of virtue, and one is just so profoundly lazy that he doesn't care who gets thrown in jail, so long as he can go home early and grab a drink.There are only two scenes in the game demonstrating actual corruption so how are we supposed to see it as a major threat? It's a vision of 1947 Los Angeles policing that's so sanitized that it's almost insulting. No one visibly takes a bribe, no one is ever framed out of malicious or corrupt intent-a cop never so much as lays a hand on a suspect who didn't start a fight. Oh, sure, there are comments here and there about people being on the pad, and Dudley at one point mentions the possibility of beating a confession out of someone, but no evidence of those things turns up in the game, save a ledger of payments that have happened in the past-basically the most passive way imaginable to get that information in. Noire features absolutely no police corruption at all. In fact, apart for one mission at the very end of the game, where dozens, if not hundreds of dirty cops suddenly burst out of the woodwork, L.A. Noire without any preconceptions about how the town operated at that time, as I assume a decent number of people playing the game are going to, you'd find a police department that doesn't seem to have any major problems with corruption at all. Noire seem so comfortable with this stereotypical depiction of Los Angeles as the most corrupt law enforcement town in America that this corruption is treated as a fait accomplit. It's a reputation that's continued down through the years, where even today the LAPD are thought of as alternately massively incompetent or completely corrupt.

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Why, it's amazing they got any policework done with all the time they spent doing drugs with movie stars and palling around with flamboyant mobsters. has taught us (I'm looking at you, novel version of The Black Dahlia), it's that the police department was almost unbelievably corrupt. If there's one thing that fiction about cops in 1940s L.A. Tomorrow I'll be covering the game's bizarre character problems, and the day after that will be devoted to minutiae and oddness. Today, I'll be dealing with the story, structure, and presentation problems that make this mystery game fail as a mystery, or even as a story, really. Over here in the blog section, however, I'm free to be as spoiler-y as I want, so I've put together an article detailing some of the ways in which the game doesn't measure up.Īrticles, actually, since this was getting far too big, I've broken it up into three sections. So many, in fact, that I couldn't risk talking about them in my review of the game lest I completely spoil the story for anyone who hasn't played it yet (and still wants to).

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