Heavy Rain

Heavy Rain Review

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ok i'm a fifteen year old girl who first saw this game by watching my older brother play it. i thought the game was absolutely amazing and i wanted more after i watched it. i felt so close to the characters that i felt their pain and other feelings. well a few days after i watched it, i had a sleepover with all my friends. now these are all girls that just think about boys, sports, and makeup. none of them are even interested in video games. earlier in the week i told them about the game and they seemed kind of interested in it. so i showed them the trailer and they wanted to see me play it so i started the game with all of them cramped in my brother's room they immediately got sucked into the game. we pulled an all nighter and played the entire game in one night. 10:30 pm to 6:00 am. all of them stayed up for at least half the game but 6 of the nine people actually stayed up for the entire thing. the other 3 fell asleep just because they were tired. my friends would jump at scary parts and they all felt they were watching a movie. they would guess who the killer was and explain why they thought so. (none of them got it right) they all were so absorbed into the game. they all agreed ethan mars was their favorite character. mine is ethan and norman jayden.
they told me in the morning that they thought the game would be boring but they absolutely LOVED IT!! they said it didn't even feel like a video game!! if this game can entertain a bunch of teenage girls for a WHOLE night it has to be a great game. THANK YOU QUANTIC DREAM FOR MAKING SUCH A GREAT GAME!!

P.S. they all thought it was funny how the characters looked exactly like the voice actors. constantly during the game they said that this would make an amazing movie and i agree. but i dont know how they can make a movie out of a video game that has like 18 endings!

Heavy Rain Feature

• A PlayStation 3 exclusive featuring accessible gameplay via intuitive, contextual controls and interface.
• An evolving action adventure thriller featuring mature content, reflecting a realistic world setting and powerful themes, in which you shape the story with every decision made.
• Action featuring four playable characters that allows you to continue playing as one of the other characters if your initial character is killed.
• Savable chapters that allow you to replay the actions of the past, while maintaining the continuity of the events of earlier chapters.
• Stunning graphics, animation and technology support an emotionally driven experience.

Heavy Rain is an interactive, single player, action adventure game in which every decision players make influences the evolution of a desperate quest to catch a deadly killer poised to strike again. Featuring a complex and dark storyline meant for mature audiences, the game is a PlayStation 3 exclusive featuring a variety of possible endings, advanced crime scene analysis, replayable chapters, four playable characters and the ability to continue play as remaining characters in the event of your current character's death. Story How far will you go to save someone you love? In Heavy Rain each player discovers their own answer to this question as they experience a gripping psychological thriller filled with innumerable twists and turns, where choices and actions can and do result in dramatic consequences. Spanning four days of mystery and suspense, the hunt is on for a murderer known only as the Origami Killer - named after his macabre calling card of leaving behind folded paper shapes at crime scenes. Even more chilling is the fiend's well established pattern of killing his victims four days after abducting them. The public is gripped with fear as the police seem powerless to stop the carnage, and another potential victim — Shaun Mars — has gone missing. Now four characters, each following their own leads and with their own motives, must take part in a desperate attempt to prevent the killer from taking yet another life. Discover how far you will go to protect a loved one as you join the search for the Origami Killer. View larger. Gameplay Heavy Rain is a single player, action/adventure game with a particularly strong emphasis on a player-influenced storyline as a means of facilitating the evolution of action towards one of many possible conclusions. The game features four playable characters: a father, a photographer, a FBI agent with a special skill set and a retired cop turned private detective. Each have different paths, means and motives to ending the reign of terror that the Origami Killer has imposed on their city. As players follow the path laid before their character of choice, they are able to explore, interact with and view their surroundings in a variety of ways using their controller's left and right sticks. At crucial times players are given a series of choices relating to how to proceed in various situations, with the outcome of these choices revealing both benefits and consequences. Benefits can be important to progressing through the game, while possible consequences can in turn pose a very real danger to characters, including death. But unlike other games, and because Heavy Rain features four playable characters that exist independently of each other, yet simultaneously within the same the story arc, this does not end the game. Players are instead able to play as one of the other available characters, with appropriate changes to possible outcomes due to the absence of the deceased character(s). Key Game Features An evolving action-adventure thriller in which you shape the story with every decision you make. Action built around four playable characters that allows you to continue playing as one of the other characters if your initial character is killed. Savable chapters that allow you to replay the actions of the past, while maintaining the continuity of the events begun in earlier chapters. Mature content reflecting a realistic world setting that explores powerful themes. Stunning graphics, animation and technology that support an emotionally driven experience. Accessible gameplay via intuitive, contextual controls and interface. Additional Screenshots: 4 unique playable characters. View larger. Advanced crime scene analysis. View larger. Story influencing actions. View larger. Stunning graphics quality. View larger.

Experience a gripping psychological crime thriller filled with innumerable twists and turns, where even the smallest actions and choices can cause dramatic consequences. The hunt is on for the Origami Killer, named after his calling card of leaving folded paper shapes on victims. Four characters, each with their own motives, take part in a desperate attempt to stop the killer from claiming a new victim.

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Customer Reviews

People tend to overlook the effort and detail put into this game - Jorge Alberto Reza -
First off, this is not a perfect game.... (is there a perfect game out there?) It has its share of flaws (slow loading times, huge and slow install etc)
But once you get started, you will not want it to end...

I've played my share of games... I own a Xbox360, a WII and a PS3. I can safely say that this game definitely is a "BUY OPTION" and ranked on my top 5 games list.

I've played the game two times. The first time I used the "Easy setting" and the second time I used the intermediate setting and it blew my mind.... Now you can actually kill the main characters if you are not careful enough.
I guess that you have to play it yourself in order to make your own opinion about it.

Id also like to point out that most people who played it don't consider the plethora of languages the game can be played in:

Being a Native American, with Italian and Mexican mother and father respectively, it was mind blowing to play this game in English, Spanish and Italian.
Its very impressive how the game can be played in any language and the story will be the same. Nothing got lost on the translation.

Thats an added value for those who know another language. =)

P.S. This is the first game I have played that has the right amount of nudity to be a mature game, but not much that it has to be a porn game.
;)

Most Impressive Game I have Played in a Long time - Bryan Di Fatta - Baltimore, Md
Heavy Rain is something so completely different than every other game that I Have ever played. Its an interactive movie. Its not perfect but they an amazing job with trying something different than your typical game. Highly Recommended.


Jul 07, 2010 16:43:07