He is equally unknowable to the player outside of the persona he wears as a cop. At the end of Vice desk, Cole, who is married and a father, follows a nightclub singer named Elsa back to her apartment and sleeps with her. It comes without much warning. Players are made to walk down the hallway to her apartment with only a vague sense that this will not further the case.
Phelps is not an avatar that players command, he is a character with his own agenda. This moment of weakness leads to a formal charge of adultery and demotion to Arson desk. Arson is L. Phelps and his new partner Herschel Biggs investigate house fires, all seemingly linked to a major real estate mogul with powerful friends, including the mayor and chief of police.
Phelps is a man beholden to the system of law. Unable to do anything from his weak position in the police force, he asks Elsa to rope in his former war comrade Jack Kelso into investigating the conspiracy.
Jack Kelso is the hero of L. When Elsa walks into his office with a mysterious case to solve, the game changes from police procedural to proper noir.
It shifts from Homicide: Life on the Street to L. He was scored on a mixture of his preexisting personality, that is, the one that Team Bondi and Rockstar created and could not be changed; and his potential personality, that is, the one that could be changed through player action. Phelps simply uttered a final goodbye to his friends before being killed by the violent torrent of water. Brendan McNamara, the former studio head of LA Noire developer Team Bondi, believes his studio ultimately closed down due to bad press surrounding the company.
Team Bondi, which over the summer had become engulfed in a working practices scandal, was ultimately liquidated at the loss of scores of jobs. Noire is a neo-noir detective action-adventure video game developed by Team Bondi and published by Rockstar Games.
Extensively marketed, L. Noire was the first video game to be shown at the Tribeca Film Festival, and received widespread critical acclaim for its advances in storytelling, presentation, and facial animation technology. It had been reported to ship over five million copies worldwide. You can never fail a case , regardless if you fail all the interrogations during the case, regardless if you find all the clues or not, etc, the game will always hold your hand and take you right to the end of the case so you can move on.
Leland Monroe is one of the two main antagonists along with Harlen J. Fontaine of the video game L. Phelps swiftly rose through the ranks and became a Detective. Phelps was born in San Francisco in , where both his father and grandfather ran a shipping company. He attended Stanford University. Before the war, he married a woman named Marie and had two daughters with her. He befriended Hank Merrill and developed an intense rivalry with Jack Kelso. In the days following his recruitment, he was given top honors for his bravery.
Some of his men greatly respected Phelps, claiming tales of his almost supernatural stealth, killing Japanese soldiers without ever being seen. In his time with the Corps, many of his troops disapproved of his actions during combat. He was part of a scout team in the Okinawa campaign before being moved to the infantry division when a high-ranking officer at the time needed to push through the enemy line into enemy territory.
During the battle for Sugar Loaf Hill, when it was time to push through enemy lines, his battalion and C. As a result, Cole wanted to fall back despite the protest of his close friend, Hank Merrill.
Shortly afterwards, he witnessed Hank get blown to pieces by an explosion after they had taken cover in a foxhole, after which went into shock. The next morning, he was found by other USMC servicemen, covered in soot, lying next to Merrill's remains, largely uninjured. As the sole survivor, he was promoted to First Lieutenant and received the Silver Star, the third highest commendation he could achieve.
Cole would forever be haunted by his experience and guilt-ridden for being honored for his "lack of courage. Near the end of his service, he was dispatched along with many other troops to clear out settlements and caves for any signs of enemy forces during the battle of Sugar Loaf. Cole, being under strict orders, wanted to clear out every sign of the enemy in the caves and villages, though this caused them to fall behind other squads.
Cole's meticulous attention to detail and insistence on clearing out each and every cave eventually caught up with him; his squad fell far behind other units, and Cole eventually rushed his men into an ambush. This is contrasted with Kelso's approach, where he ordered Cole's squad to carefully approach a cave complex and simply seal the entrance, trapping any and all Japanese, whether civilian or soldiers, within.
Ira Hogeboom , armed with a flamethrower and following Cole's orders, surged forward past the ambush and set the cave ablaze; only afterward do Cole and his unit realize the cave was filled with civilians, specifically women and children, who while badly burned, many remain alive and in agonizing pain. Cole's unit, terrified and distraught about what had just happened, looked to Phelps for an answer as the badly injured women and children writhed in agony around them.
Panicking, Cole ordered his men to end the victims' suffering and execute the burned women and children. Protesting loudly, and finally pushed to the breaking point by Cole's orders, Courtney Sheldon shot Cole in the back, taking out his frustration and anger at Cole's hypocrisy. Kelso arrived, taking command of the situation and ordering the Marines out of the cave, ordering them to never speak of the incident again. After receiving treatment for his wound at an army hospital, Phelps was honorably discharged from the Marine Corps.
Starting out as a patrol officer, Phelps demonstrated high potential as an officer, from solving the murder of Scooter Peyton to foiling an armed bank robbery and arresting Wendell Bowers. Phelps was soon after promoted to Detective in the Traffic department and partnered with Stefan Bekowsky.
Together the two solved a string of intriguing cases, such as uncovering acts of conspiracies, fraud and even murder, while generating good press for the department. For his hard work and dedication he is transferred to the burglary division. Six months later, Phelps was promoted to Homicide and partnered with Rusty Galloway.
Phelps and Galloway were assigned to a series of gruesome and brutal murders. Unlike a lot of the characters on this list, there was never any guarantee that Cole Phelps would make it out of LA Noire alive. After all, the kind of stories the game was sending up revelled in surprise deaths of protagonists and subversive, downer endings that saw corruption, crime, and politics all win out in the end.
With that said, it still didn't prepare anyone for how Cole would actually bite the dust.
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