Little character quirks, like Ethan’s nervous jaw wiggling, make them strangely human, and ultimately more lovable to you in the end. Around a third of the way in, I really came to care about my four characters and I felt personally invested in keeping all of them alive. It’s a totally immersive experience with an attention to detail that has never before graced my Play Station 3. You truly are the driving force behind what happens. The more precise and delicate actions, like climbing beneath electrical cables, find your fingers twisted across three, four and sometimes five buttons.Īll told, playing Heavy Rain is less like playing a traditional video game and more like acting out a film. How quickly your thumb moves determines the speed of the in-game movement, and it feels so natural that the actions quickly become an extension of you. To manage the complex array of ways you can interact with the environment, a box appears indicating which direction to arc the joystick in order to complete a task, like opening the fridge or wrapping a bandage. And that’s kind of a big deal when you’re in any number of life or death situations.īut happily, beyond walking around, the rest of the controls are pretty intuitive. With the awkward navigation system, I often found myself overstepping or running into stuff when trying to maneuver into the right position to trigger an action. While conceptually Heavy Rain is steeped in realism, the gameplay unfortunately isn’t quite as fluid as real life. I guarantee, when faced with an in-game decision, you’ll spend a chunk of time weighing the options. And not only do you lose the character, but also whatever unique mysteries await in their plotline. The game, much like reality, carries on without them. If you f*ck something up and kill one of your characters in the process, they, uh, don’t come back. “I guarantee, when faced with an in-game decision, you’ll spend a chunk of time weighing the options. And let’s hope your instincts are good: every choice you make directly impacts the course of the game, and there’s no going back. You’ll be running on instinct and adrenaline alone. This is high realism: there are no regenerating enemies, no ammunition caches. That’s largely because the game invents a genre of its own, eschewing existing gaming conventions altogether. While the cast of characters might sound straight out of Law and Order: SVU, Heavy Rain is the polar-opposite of formulaic. Your protagonists are Ethan Mars, a broken man trying to keep his son Shaun from becoming the next victim Madison Paige, a sexy journalist hunting down clues Scott Shelby, a private eye hired by the victims’ families and Norman Jayden, a drug-addicted FBI profiler in town to give the local fuzz a hand. You steer four characters as they investigate the case of the “Origami Killer,” a rampant murderer who drowns his young victims in rain water before abandoning them with an origami figure in their hand. The game, in cinematic fashion, begins like a noir crime drama. Hopefully the rest of the industry is taking notes. Heavy Rain demolishes the conventions you take for granted in other games, like save-points, extra lives and a linear story, but in doing so constructs something exhilaratingly new. Unless you’re familiar with Indigo Prophecy (Quantic Dream’s 2005 psychological thriller), Heavy Rain will take your expectations of gaming by storm. You haven’t played anything like this before.
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