Since there’s been posts asking about desired sequels, I thought it would be fun to brainstorm what they could do with one set in Chicago.
For me, I have a few ideas.
You play as either a prohibition agent, or detective who works with one going up against Al Capone, who is the main antagonist. Or if not Al Capone, a clear stand in, though they did use at least a few names of real people in LA Noire.
Maybe instead of a straight arrow like Cole was, the protagonist partakes of the demon drink, so either during or between cases you get to go into speakeasies.
Going back to Capone, they could have you meet him, and maybe do something to show off just how dangerous he was irl, rather than the stuff they tend to do in movies. Like one thing I remember reading a while back was Capone did not question it if there was even a hint one of his men were ratting him out, and even carried out some of the executions himself. Though this wasn’t something he obviously did in broad daylight.
So we get one case that starts with us meeting one of his associates, maybe he doesn’t even snitch, it’s the police trying to strong arm him, and then later on, because he was seen talking to us, we find his body and he is just cut to ribbons, and we learn it was Capone who did it personally, but we can’t prove it for an arrest.
Maybe in the final case, or close to the end, we get to be part of the squad that goes in to arrest him for not paying his taxes.
OR
Maybe if they don’t want to use Capone at all, they could have it set AFTER his arrest, and we’re dealing with the violence caused by the power vacuum as the mobsters fight for power, and our big arrest of the game is his replacement, a fictional mob boss.
All the while we’re dealing with stuff surrounding the Prohibition, like the riots and protests. Maybe we get to meet the people involved like Carrie Nation.
lol she pulls her axe on us or some mobster.
“Miss Nation no!”
“Miss Nation yes!” She says as she rushes some terrified gangster not prepared for this little old lady with an axe.