Sometimes I think I'd like to see a cops 'n' robbers game that, essentially, just stole wholesale from The Wire - where you're trying to catch criminals by making sure witnesses survive long enough to get the case to court, making wire-taps, tricking suspects into signing confessions, etc, instead of just shooting your way through a warehouse full of them and then killing the gang leader in a boss fight. A game where you get to know and study the various villains you're up against for longer than a couple of taunting audio recordings and a cutscene. Headshotted that drug dealer like a badass? Maybe you'll avoid investigation and prosecution, if you've got a friend in the higher-ups or one of your fellow grunts is prepared to lie for you and help you move the body out onto the street. Do you beat the shit out of the knuckleheads on the corner, help yourself to the drug money during raids, even pass confidential police information on to criminal contacts, or do you become the sickly-sweet-and-caring community officer who tries to get the kids off the streets? Stick to your increasingly strained principles or rise through the ranks through networking, lies, backstabbing, and taking the credit for other peoples' work?
...yeah, it'd never happen in a thousand years.
