| Heavy Rain | 
| From: Sony
Category: Video Games
List Price: $59.99
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Rating:  174 reviews
Sales Rank: 21
Platform: PLAYSTATION 3
Genre: action_games
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
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: 711719816423
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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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. 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.
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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| Customer Reviews:
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 Impressive March 19, 2010
Wurms (California)
First off, this isn't really a game. Dont buy this thinking you going to be aiming at bad guys, diving behind cover, etc. What you will be doing is basically watching a movie and your actions depend on what scenes you will see. If you want the character to be angry and forceful toward a person you can do that, if you want to try and talk calmly instead, go for it and then watch what happens. This game is just about watching your decisions unfold. If you make one of the characters kill someone in the game, then you could see scenes later of his remorse rather than an entirely different scene and that could branch off to something else. There aren't a lot of branching paths, especially the first half of the game where your basically just along for the ride with some buttons pressing to give you something to do. But as the story unfolds your giving bigger choices and the ones you make will impact the story greater.
Gameplay: It starts off really slow, so give it time. There is a reason the game makes you drink orange juice and juggle tennis balls, these skills will come in handy when your healing a wound or in a chase scene later on in the game. It also builds up the characters in the game making you actual care about what your going to put them through. When characters talk the game usually gives you something small to do like heal a wound with slow right-stick movements, or grab a object, etc. Something to keep your fingers busy. Other times its twister with the controller making you press and hold like 4 or 5 sometimes 7 buttons at once. Then are really tense moments where you only have a second to decide what to do and that can mean life or death and there are three choices! You will be a master of the dualshock controller by the end of the game. The action scenes are really fun and intense. And there is no losing, you just keep going on with the story.
The game will take about 7-8 hours to get through but then your going to want to try and get a different ending. You go back to whatever chapter you wish and replay it.
Overall, it was a great experience. This game DOES make you care about these characters has much as a good hollywood film does. Graphics and sound are topnotch. If you enjoy thriller movies like Seven, Saw, etc. then you will enjoy this "Interactive Drama".
Great game with a few flaws! March 18, 2010
H. Shaw (MD United States)
First, I loved every minute of this game. I've played it twice already. I plan on replaying some of the major chapters to see what other endings there are. I really got into the story. It was emotional and I connected with the characters. I thought the animation was great and Madison is just beautiful to look at. If you're into action packed or strategy games, this isn't the game for you. This is an interactive story game.
My only complaints are:
The game can freeze up on you. You will have to restart or reboot the game system. However, my saves were still there.
The characters walked very slow. It got annoying after a while. There is no running.
I didn't the control movements such as moving your gamepad up and down really fast to activate a certain action.
There are loopholes in the story.
Overall, it was worth the $55 that I paid. I hope there will be more games like this in the future.
 boring pointless stinkbomb March 18, 2010
taki renzaburo (antarctica)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Heavy Rain is not really a game as it has virtually no gameplay to speak of. Player interaction is limited to wandering around very small environments until a quicktime prompt pops up and tells you what buttons to press. Not very engaging to say the least. What you have left is a boring, ponderous, and lame thriller which is way below hollywood standards. The game clearly wants to be a movie but the embarrasing plotting and cardboard characters ensure that had that actually been the case, it would have been roundly panned and laughed out of theatres. The fact that the game was so well received critically reveals more about the desire of game reviewers to legitimize their field with what they naiively perceive to be narrative sophistication than about the merits of the game itself.
 One of the most intense games ever! March 18, 2010
R. C. Nalley (Ky, USA)
Regardless of the gaping plot holes (i honestly didnt notice it my first playthrough and I had already heard about a plothole) and the 4-5 hour long QTE. It is one of, if not the most, intense games ive every played. Knowing that your actions and mistakes can change the course of the game forever, really adds value to the game and even though it is basically one huge QTE (Quick Time Event) it is actually a fun game. Not so much for replay value though, unless you are grinding for trophies.
Still if you are so inclined and are curious to see every outcome there is replayability.
The first time is the kicker though...
Very Boring! March 17, 2010
Superman (Midwest)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I downloaded this game and tried to get into it but it is so boring, Its like watching day time soaps! You have to press certain buttons to make people talk and you have to listen to it. Like one earlier review said, you probably have to wait till the second hour of play to see any good action but I couldn't wait that long. I will be deleting this game off my system. However the game does have excellent graphics!
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