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Release Date 2010-02-23

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Description

Experience a gripping psychological crime thriller filled together 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 afterwards his calling card of leaving folded paper forms on victims. Four characters, every together with their own motives, get part in a desperate strive to stop the killer from claiming a new victim.

Heavy Rain is an interactive, single player, action adventure strategy in which each decision players do influences the evolution of a desperate quest to catch a deadly killer poised to strike again. Featuring a advanced and dark storyline meant for mature audiences, the strategy is a PlayStation 3 special featuring a diversity of possible endings, complex crime scene analysis, replayable chapters, four playable characters and the capability to continue have fun as remaining characters in the event of your existing character's death.

Story
How far will you go to save someone you love? In Heavy Rain every player discovers their own answer to this question as they experience a gripping psychological thriller filled together with innumerable twists and turns, where choices and actions can and do outcome in dramatic consequences. Spanning four days of mystery and suspense, the hunt is on for a murderer known only as the Origami Killer - named afterwards his macabre calling card of leaving behind folded paper forms at crime scenes. Even extra chilling is the fiend's well established pattern of killing his victims four days afterwards abducting them. The public is gripped together with fear as the police seem powerless to stop the carnage, and another potential victim — Shaun Mars — has gone missing. Now four characters, every following their own leads and together with their own motives, must get part in a desperate strive 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.
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Gameplay
Heavy Rain is a single player, action/adventure strategy together 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 strategy features four playable characters: a father, a photographer, a FBI agent together with a exclusive skill set and a retired cop turned private detective. Every have different paths, means and motives to ending the reign of terror this the Origami Killer has imposed on their city. As players follow the path laid before their character of choice, they are effective to explore, interact together with and view their surroundings in a diversity of ways utilizing 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, together with the outcome of these choices revealing together benefits and consequences. Benefits can be important to progressing throughout the strategy, while possible consequences can in turn pose a very real danger to characters, counting death. But unlike other games, and for the reason that Heavy Rain features four playable characters this exist independently of every other, yet concurrently inside the same the story arc, this does not end the strategy. Players are instead effective to have fun as one of the other available characters, together with appropriate changes to possible outcomes due to the absence of the deceased character(s).

Key Strategy Features

An evolving action-adventure thriller in which you form the story together with each decision you do.
Action built all-around four playable characters this lets you to continue playing as one of the other characters if your initial character is killed.
Savable chapters this agree to 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 environment this explores great themes.
Spectacular graphics, animation and technology this support an emotionally driven experience.
Accessible gameplay via intuitive, contextual controls and interface.

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Private detective Scott Shelby looking over evidence and packing heat in Heavy Rain

4 distinctive playable characters.
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FBI agent Norman Jayden working a crime scene in Heavy Rain.

Complex crime scene analysis.
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Scott Shelby debating whether to interfere in a robbery in Heavy Rain

Story influencing actions.
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Troubled photographer Madison Paige from Heavy Rain

Spectacular graphics excellence.
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Customer Reviews

Wasn't expecting this. 2010-03-13

By Minerva Reynoso (new york)

This game is one of the most sadness game i ever play until now, also is very created but is very tricky at the same time. This game is like law and order and bones. Is a good game. I would recomment this game to people.

Succeeds as a narrative but ultimately fails as a game. 2010-03-13

By C. Trevarthen (Detroit, MI USA)

Heavy Rain is one of the first games I've played where decisions/actions early-on affect the outcome of the rest of the game. With most games, you might receive two or three different ending sequences, but with Heavy Rain, the entire course of the game can be altered based on an earlier decision (or indecision for that matter).

Unfortunately, the branches that you have real control over - where you make a conscious choice - only affect the story in a minimal way. Most of the critical story branches happen during action sequences. These sequences can determine if a main character will live or die; affecting how the other characters proceed through the story. These action sequences are knock-down-drag-out fights that are indeed exhilarating. But, the fights are really just cinematics that are loosely controlled by the player hitting a button at the right moment ("quicktime events"). This is the most aggravating part of the game for me: the illusion of choice. It is a shame that such crucial story paths are decided merely based on the player's reaction time, and sometimes the ability to hold 6 buttons down at the same time in the right sequence.

While you can go back and replay any chapter (including those you "failed"), you often have to play through the entire chapter to get to the quicktime sequence - which you could quite possibly fail again.

Also, the game is also not without its technical flaws. Upon initial installation, all of the menus flickered so fast they couldn't be read and there was loud static. A reboot of the PS3 fixed this issue, but it still made a bad first impression. Also, when going back to fix "failed" chapters, the quicktime events sometimes skipped ahead to a death scene, even though it was still early in the fight, meaning I had to go back and replay the chapter *again*.

It is difficult to decide whether to recommend Heavy Rain. It has a fantastic narrative with distinct and interesting characters. You really feel like you are part of a serial killer investigation. I think it is because the story is so engaging that I experienced so much frustration when failing a quicktime event when I couldn't mash the buttons fast enough. It is an experience I won't soon forget, and the replay-value is surely high, if you can avoid breaking your controller.

Loved every minute of it 2010-03-13

By S. McNeece (Aurora, CO United States)

I very much enjoyed my first play through. First I want to say I really was needing something different, today all we seem to get more of the same, FPS, and button mashing games. Not that I don't enjoy those too, but I get bored with the same, and always look for something unique.

I didn't have any problems with any crashes or glitches as others have. I was prompted with a large 200+ meg patch when I inserted the disc, on my 7 meg DSL this took about 10 minutes to download. But the entire game played fine.

The graphics are awesome, every scene is full of detail. The music is very well done, and fits the game perfect. The QTE's are well done for the most part, my only grip is I wish the text was a bit bigger at times.

The story was pretty well done, and keeps you guessing who the real killer is right up until the end.

If you're curious, give it a rent, and if you enjoy it please buy it so we see a sequel!

Great storyline 2010-03-12

By Laureena B. (Elizabeth, NJ United States)

At first i was a little weary of the storyline. Its extremely sad. You forget your playing a game
it becomes real. You feel for your charactors. Playing different charactors allows you to get all points of view.

Interactive movie...? 2010-03-12

By Shinigami (Florida)

I'll spare you the hassle of reading some long-winded & self-absorbed review.

I'll just say this: The overall presentation is good, but it's basically an 'interactive movie', not a 'video game'.

If you've seen/read quite a bit of stories/movies/anime/books/plays/whatever in your lifetime, the story won't stand out.

Basically, it felt like I was pressing buttons while watching some special episode of a Law & Order spinoff. At the end, I didn't feel the money spent on this was justified, as far as the story is concerned. Is it a "unique" & groundbreaking type of game? Yes. If more games start taking this type of storytelling method, while using better stories, then I'll have felt that it was a good investment.

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