Touted as an atmospheric "detective thriller," Noire is a very different beast from publisher and co-developer Rockstar's previous open-worlders. And over the course of Noire's 21 core cases, he’s tasked with confronting and, hopefully, conquering them all. But like Marston and sociopathic ex-soldier Niko Bellic before him, the detective is a product of his blood-stained past deeds. 45, Phelps' most dangerous weapons are his cunning and ambition. Opting for his notepad and pen over a Colt. Confidential's determined Detective Edmund Exley more than Red Dead Redemption's quick-drawing cowpoke, John Marston. Noire's writer and director, paints the detective as a "golden boy" crime buster and war hero at first blush, channeling L.A. Brendan McNamara, developer Team Bondi's founder and L.A. It's this drive that synonymously relates and separates Phelps to and from previous Rockstar-published protagonists. The word I keep coming back to is "driven" - driven by his unshakable morals, driven by a deft intellect, and driven by the demons borne during the events of his tour in World War II Okinawa. I've toyed with "straight-laced," which seems too two-dimensional a descriptor, and I briefly considered "haunted," but it comes across as needlessly tragic. Noire's fedora-clad gumshoe and ostensibly infallible leading man.
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I've been racking my brain this past week for the phrase to best describe Detective Cole Phelps, L.A.