| Heavy Rain | 
| From: Sony
Category: Video Games
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Rating:  345 reviews
Sales Rank: 148
Platform: PlayStation 3
Genre: military_and_espionage_action_games
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
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Number Of Items: 1
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Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: PlayStation 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.7 x 6.7 x 0.6
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MPN: 98164
Model: 711719816423
UPC: 711719816423
EAN: 0711719816423
ASIN: B002CZ38KA
Publication Date: January 31, 2010
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| Features:
| • | 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. |
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Heavy Rain PS3
Amazon.com Product Description
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.
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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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Engaging, but has some glitches September 4, 2010
Hi (California)
I just wanted to mention the glitch problems I had while playing Heavy Rain. Thankfully it only happened once, but apparently similar things have happened to others after release of the Heavy Rain patch. I was on the "Butterfly" mission where Ethan crawls through the tunnel in the dark. Suddenly the screen went black and the audio was screeching. It sounded terrible and I couldn't get it to stop until I turned the PS3 off.
That aside, Heavy Rain was a very intense game with a good story. There are not enough of these types of story rich games. The beginning is somewhat boring and slow, and it feels more like an interactive movie than an actual game. You have choices but they feel very limited, and often times your options on-screen are hard to see and you end up choosing the wrong one (at least I did). The words were also vague and sometimes ended up doing things entirely different from what I imagined.
But Heavy Rain was half of the reason I finally bought a PS3. I was a big fan of Indigo Prophecy on PS2 and really wanted to play the team's latest game. Needless to say, my expectations were almost all fulfilled. The story was very exciting towards the end. I had absolutely no idea who the killer really was until it was revealed. The game gives you hints and plants things in your mind, but you're never really sure until it's confirmed. Overall it was excellent and has some replay value if you want to go back and experience different endings based on your choices. The game was fairly short though. I finished it in about a day and a half, and I didn't even play it the entire day. Bottom line, I'm eagerly waiting this team's next game.
not bad September 1, 2010
Brad
it's a short review... my biggest problem is how fast it plays, more like DVD Clue than like Medal of Honor (if you will). Meaning that to control things or maintain a fight sequence, the screen cues you to push square, circle, ex, triangle etc. Not exactly what I was looking forward to BUT if you dont mind some "coached" interaction, it is a nice game to play... perhaps just not my style of suspense.
Engaging, but slow. August 31, 2010
game play addict (U.S.A.)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This game is unique, unlike any game I've played. Its engaging, but maybe too much. For example, having to find medicine in the bathroom or changing diapers. I would have given this a strong 5 star, but its a very slow paced game requiring lots of patience. Due to its unique gameplay I would say its worth playing. This has graphic nudity scenes and can be very harmful for bipolar depressive people.
Madisons boobs stretch from the 'E' to the 'Y'... August 30, 2010
Derek Huwe (USA)
Good for one time play though, then you can just go back to each chapter and play the individual scenes, to acquire the trophies (if so desired). Good plot, vivid characters, great story, open-ended choices make this movie.. er I mean, game ideal to rent or borrow.
 A unique experience. August 26, 2010
J. Defreitas (Tampa, FL. USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
In a word: Interesting.
In a sentence: This game takes some getting used to but once you give it a chance the story runs the show, which is critical to a good game, movie, or book.
In a paragraph: I thoroughly enjoyed playing this game, it's setup a lot like a movie, and thus their are some lengthy but beautiful scenes to watch. Overall I thought that this game broke new ground mainly by doing something different, being different takes guts. This game is considered the king of quicktime events, these are actions you must replicate onscreen or you can't move forward in the story or if you fail to replicate correctly your character fails. Quicktime events have never to my knowledge been used so heavily in game before. Truth be known this game was really constructed with Sony's motion control add on device in mind, however the game was finished much too early to wait for this new device to be released in time, so they released it to be compatible with the standard controller. Here in lies the reason why so many people hated this game, they found it difficult to control the main characters, they didn't care for QTE's or they found the story to be non-compelling. Those critics who didn't think the story was engaging are most likely the younger generation those born in the 1990's and up. I would venture to say that 90% of those born in the late 70's and early 80's who have children of their own would certainly appreciate the mature storyline.
One critique: Why did the character they we feel compelled to love have to be the character that we learn to hate?
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