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"I beat Heavy Rain a couple of months ago, and while it was shorter than most of the games I play, it was definitely better than I expected it to be. Yet, that was using the Dualshock 3, and while it had motion controls, they were nothing like playing with the Playstation Move controllers at PAX Prime 2010."
"When it comes to Heavy Rain there are two different types of people: those who think that it’s just a giant quick-time event (more movie than game) and those who understand that it is much more. The latter may or may not have played Quantic Dream’s excellent Indigo Prophecy but the former certainly hasn’t. What this French company is trying to do is reinvent storytelling in the video game medium. With a script of over a thousand pages long, they certainly aren’t slouching in that task. The qu..."
There is a hidden demo of Heavy Rain available on the Playstation Network Store. Explicit Gamer talks about their experiences while playing the demo and reveals how to get the demo for yourself off the PSN Store.
"Jumping straight into the first level, the graphics were amazing and the environment more detailed than anything we’ve seen on the PlayStation 3. Sony’s Lucy Duncan was correct in stating that Heavy Rain “shows off the power of the PS3″. The graphics surpass that of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves and the characters look and move realistically."
"Sony and Quantic Dream had a mission to create a game experience like no other. While Indigo Prophecy offered a truly compelling experience with great characters, David Cage and his team at Quantic Dream have gone far beyond the experience they created in Indigo Prophecy. Expanding on the premise presented in Indigo Prophecy, Heavy Rain will push you to make moral decisions, second guess every choice you made, and really put you in the role of each of the game’s four main characters."
"After spending hours with a preview build of Quantic Dream's Heavy Rain, I've found that it's certainly a difficult title to talk about. One of the most anticipated PlayStation 3 exclusives for 2010, I'm still not entirely sure it's even a game... at least not in the traditional sense.
David Cage, the founder and co-CEO of Quantic Dream, agrees, saying that the gameplay is "difficult to describe because it is based on very different paradigms compared to most games.""
"Sony and Quantic Dream have teamed up to release one of the most unique PS3 games to date with Heavy Rain. Expanding on the concepts found in Quantic Dream's previous title, Indigo Prophecy, Heavy Rain will make your actions in the game affect the outcome of later events occurring in the game. Making a moral decision may not be the best choice in some situations, but that's what Heavy Rain is all about. Just how far will you go to save someone you love?"
"Everything we'd seen up until the point we finally got to play Heavy Rain: The Origami Killer wasn't actually Heavy Rain. It was either an early tech demo ("The Casting") or a gameplay proof of concept ("The Taxidermist"). The one thing present in every version: emotionally charged situations. Quantic Dream says it set out to tell a gripping story, so it developed the technology needed to create game characters that players could actually see as real people -- and environments that look as l..."
It's been awhile since we saw or even heard anything new from Quantic Dream's Heavy Rain, but 1UP have managed to secure a hands-on with the game revealing a new scenario and new characters.
[ Discussion in the Heavy Rain Forum ]
"How far are you prepared to go to save someone you love? For most people in real life, they'd risk life and limb, particularly if the person that you love was in danger of dying. But would you feel the same way with a video game character? Quantic Dream is working hard on trying to blur this distinction by making a title that will play with your emotions, raise the level of story telling and expand gaming. Heavy Rain, their upcoming film noir thriller, will exclusively hit the PS3 sometime ne..."
"Remember Farenheit (or Indigo Prophecy to our overseas readers)? It was the story of a man who unwillingly kills a man in a diner and simultaneously followed the story of two detectives trying to uncover a string of murders across the city. It is, by far, one of my favourite games for the original Xbox, even if the last hour or so were a bit farfetched. It is one of my favourite games because of how original it was, how it was presented and the story itself. The main aim of Farenheit was to i..."
"Quantic Dream's David Cage walked us through a Heavy Rain demo at Games Convention last week, giving us a taste of how the game actually plays. While much of the presentation touched on facets of Heavy Rain's "rubber band" storyline and little things, like motion captured eye movement, Cage paused often to talk up the PlayStation 3 game's control scheme.
We've already written about the driving game inspired character control -- the R2 button moves her forward, with the left analog steering..."
Here is another in depth look at the gorgeously cinematic game Heavy Rain - developed by the creators of Indigo Prophecy. This time a creator interview from the 2008 Games Convention, which promises an emotion journey unlike any other game can offer.
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