| Subcategories |
 |
Video Games |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Heavy Rain
Studio : Sony
by Sony
Brand : Sony
Model : 711719816423
Platform : PlayStation 3
Release Date : 2010-02-23
Publisher : Sony
Released : 2010-01-31
Minimum Age : 17.0 Years
Maximum Age : 20.0 Years
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 0711719816423
UPC : 711719816423
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 347 reviews)
List Price : $59.99
Our Price : $43.50
|
|
| |
-
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.
|
|
| |
|
Product Description |
|
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. |
| |
|
Webanix.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.
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. | | | |
| |
|
| |
|
represents an entirely new genre |
Heavy Rain is touted as being "interactive drama" - a game defined primarily by story and choices, rather than combat. While the degree of "interactivity" may be questionable, there's no doubt that as a game this represents an entirely new genre - not quite open-ended, but still offering results for the player's actions.
Heavy Rain tells the story of four characters: The single father, Ethan, the detective, Scott, the journalist, Madison, and the FBI agent, Norman. Their stories are told as short vignettes - the perspective will start at Ethan, switch to Scott, then to Norman, and so on as the story warrants. Their stories center around the Origami Killer, a serial killer so named because of the figures he leaves on his victims. Each character is trying to investigate the killer for different reasons, and while their investigations start out entirely separate they inexorably end up caught up in each others' stories.
The game is carried out through what are basically quick-time events. In some segments, the player character will be allowed to walk around and interact with their environment by making the appropriate movement when near an object. In action sequences, the player simply has to hit the buttons (or do the appropriate motions) when the icon for it pops up. Both try to have actions be fairly intuitive based on the motion. The game's use of occasional motion controls, as well as making the button display shakier in times of stress or crisis, both add atmosphere and player connection to the events of the game.
The game's "choice" varies between the two kinds of sequences. In free-moving sequences, the player is allowed to make an occasional decision that will affect the development or ending of the game. In action sequences, the player's goal is simply to survive - messing up too many quick-time events (or one important one) will actually kill the character off permanently. For that reason, there's always a really impressive sense of weight and drama during these scenes, instead of annoyance or irritation on having to retry if you fail. There's a chapter select, so it's possible to go back and retry failed scenes, but the real drama of the game comes from trying to get it all done on one playthrough without having any characters die or do the wrong thing. Personally, I became more concerned for my success than I had in any other game simply because of this fact.
The main problem I could see with the game is that, while the game's a murder mystery, you're never really given the opportunity to try and solve it per se. While you, the player, might guess at it based on clues you find, there's no part of the game that's actually about going out and getting clues. The characters investigate, but in a linear, pre-determined manner. While on the one hand I found this kind of annoying, the fact that the game has to go on no matter who dies - even if all the playable characters die - kind of balanced it out. There's simply so many scenarios already that making it open-ended on top of that would've been much more difficult.
On the whole I really enjoyed Heavy Rain, primarily because of the aforementioned life-or-death struggles. However, it was only really good for one playthrough - it's not the kind of game that one really replays to find out what happened. The game is about your one story, and going back and doing it again takes away a lot of the pressure, and therefore the drama, of the game's system. It's essentially an extended movie where the player's failure can change the ending. It's worth a playthrough, but might not be worth holding onto.
8/10.
We purchased this game with our own money from a game store. |
| |
|
new gaming style |
well this is a new gaming style it will take u to live in it and feel it i actually found it shockingly brilliant and cleaver and i say it was a cool awesome experience took for me a time in a good new style gaming.
i give 5 out of 5 and strongly recommended |
| |
|
Engaging, but has some glitches |
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 |
|
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. |
|
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. |
| |
|
|
|
