Heavy Rain Impressions

This weeks GTTV focused on a very exiting psychological thriller called Heavy Rain that’s coming exclusively to the PlayStation 3. To be honest, I don’t think many people reading this blog will not know about Heavy Rain. Anyways some new light has been shed on the game which has boosted the game up to my top three most anticipated games of 09.

So first thing that I found well… a fantastic idea is that there are no game over screens. Once you die the story moves on to the next character. There are four character’s in total but only two have been seen. The first one is the woman with short hair, that we saw at last years E3. Well now she’s been confirmed as a journalist who is looking for the scoop of the Origami murders. And the second character is a guy from the FBI who’s investigating the murders (Se7en anyone). I found the, if you die your dead aspect amazing. It’s a mechanic that will work perfectly for a psychological thriller.

They (the developers) also said that there will be a lot of sex and violence in the game. They even showed off footage of the journalist in just her undies dancing round for some guy, which was… strange. But what’s even stranger is that the first footage we saw, which was the journalist breaking and entering someone’s house to snoop around, well all that bit isn’t in the game. No you wont see it. But it showed what to expect. I think the developers should add it in a directors cut material or something along those lines. Anyways the gameplay as far as I know mainly consists of press X to not die scenarios. They showed off the FBI walking around but whether gunplay will come in is a different matter.

The poster (above) for this game even looks good. If the game turns out to be Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophesies, original title) and Metal Gear Solid 4, then I’ll be happy? Hell if it’s mainly press X to not die cut scenes I’ll be happy as long as it’s consistent and doesn’t turn out like the ends of Fahrenheit and more importantly Condemned 2: Blood Shot.

That last thing I am going to say, is how much I am starting to love the sound o this game. You can call it a movie but I love how different factors with change the end of the story. Dead rising on the 360 did this, but I know Heavy Rain will perfect it. I love the direction the game is heading and being a screenwriter myself it’s games like this that are bursting with creativity and inspiration. It is definitely a game in going to get and I hope it comes out this year. Fingers crossed at E3 they sort out a release date (and Batman: Arkham Asylum).

GTTV - episode 213, source material

P.S. I apologies with the paragraphing. Blogspot are in desperate need to work on it because it keeps messing up on both my blogs.

Oliver Hunt