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Heavy Rain

 
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platform: Playstation 3
publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
developer: Quantic Dream
published: February 23, 2010
genre: Adventure
players: 1
 
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Abstract

Heavy Rain is an evolving thriller in which you shape the story.

ESRB rating

Strong language
Use of Drugs
Intense Violence
Blood
Nudity
Sexual Content 


Full description

Heavy Rain is a cinematic and evolving thriller from Quantic Dream, the developer behind the critically acclaimed Fahrenheit. Dealing with a range of adult themes, the game revolves around a sophisticated plot and strong narrative threads that explore a complex moral proposition. You assume the role of multiple characters, with very different backgrounds, motivations and skills, in a world shaped by Bending Storylines - a dynamic narrative design where your actions and decisions will shape your story.

Editorial review

Source: Amazon

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.

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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.

Shaun and Ethan Mars from Heavy Rain
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 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.
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Private detective Scott Shelby looking over evidence and packing heat in Heavy Rain
4 unique playable characters.
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FBI agent Norman Jayden working a crime scene in Heavy Rain.
Advanced 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
Stunning graphics quality.
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Special features

  • An evolving thriller in which you shape the story
  • Mature content, reflecting a realistic world setting that explores powerful themes
  • Stunning graphics, animation and technology support an emotionally driven experience
  • Accessible gameplay via intuitive, contextual controls and interface
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