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Heavy Rain | 
| From: Sony Computer Entertainment
Category: Video Games
List Price: CDN$ 59.99
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 47
Platform: PlayStation 3
Genre: adventure_games
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Playstation 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.7 x 6.7 x 0.6
MPN: 98164
Model: 711719816423
UPC: 711719816423
EAN: 0711719816423
ASIN: B002CZ38KA
Publication Date: February 2010
Availability: Usually ships within 1 - 2 business days
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| Features:
| • | An evolving thriller in which you shape the story | | • | Mature content, reflecting a realistic world setting that explores powerful themes | | • | Stunning graphics, animation and technology support an emotionally driven experience | | • | Accessible gameplay via intuitive, contextual controls and interface |
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Amazon.ca 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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4 unique playable characters.
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| Customer Reviews:
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 Awesomeness! July 1, 2010
René Bélanger (Chelmsford, ON CAN)
Greatest game I have played in awhile! This is a genre of game that is reletively new to the market, in my oppinion, and they should make more of these. Extremely fun and a must buy for a PS3 owners!!!
Heavy Rain Review July 1, 2010
V. Nguyen (ON, Canada)
Heavy Rain, a game by Quantic Dream, is an adventure game utilizing quick time events (QTEs). Although QTEs can seem repetitive and boring, the way they are integrated into the game along with the storyline exemplifies a seemless transition.
This game has replayability, due to it's multiple endings. Although some parts you would have to play over and over again can be quite tedious to gain trophies and all endings, the game is still enjoyable even on subsequent playthroughs for the most part.
The graphics are top-notch, the sound is excellent, and the overall presentation is amazing.
The only downside is once you finish the game, collect all trohpies and endings, it's unlikely you'll play it again, but then again, you could say that for a lot of single player games.
 Disturbingly enjoyable June 19, 2010
Signal to Noise (Calgary, AB)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Good:
-Story
-Mature theme
-Controls
-Environment
The Not-so-Good:
-Voice acting
-QTE controls
-Final reveal
This game won't be for everyone. Think of Heavy Rain as a hybrid of the movie Saw colliding into the TV series CSI. There are moments that can be emotional or downright put-the-controller-down-and-walk-away-from-the-game disturbing. The game could have simply been called "Heavy". Yet for the right audience the game has the power to hold one's attention and draws the player in to the ultimate conclusion. If anyone played Quantic Dream's previous game Indigo Prophecy then this one will be quite familiar yet darker in subject matter.
The basic controls of manipulating the characters through the gameplay is very fluid and makes for an immersive experience. However, I am not a fan of Quicktime Events (QTE) and found that in heavy action sequences some of the button combinations took my attention away from what was unfolding on the screen story-wise. There were even some situations where the control schemes required a contortionist to execute. I eventually had to dial the difficulty level down a notch to successfully make the QTE work favorably. Also, certain camera angles while moving the character caused disorientation and botched results. The subway and apartment fire scenarios come to mind.
While overall the 4 characters the player gets to control through the course of the game were interesting, listening to them was not so much. There were times the voices sounded disjointed or even a completely different actor's voice was used for the same character. At times it took away from the immersion.
The set pieces and environments were outstanding. Locations are believable and the ambient sounds and effects are top notch. There's plenty of variety in locations too so the player shouldn't find things too repetitive or tedious. Except perhaps for the incessant rainfall,
Not to divulge any spoilers, I will only say that the big reveal of who the Origami Killer turns out to be is a huge disappointment as well as being ludicrous since the player controls that character for a good part of the game. It was a poor decision by Quantic Dream to arch the story plot in the direction they chose. In my opinion there was a better obvious choice of who the killer could have been and that's who should have been used. This flaw alone is what prevents the game from a perfect score from me. I believe there are 8 or 9 possible endings but I think the killer identity is unchanging for each one.
Other flaws include graphical glitches (a disappearing Madison in one scene at the Doc's house, missing katana sword in Jayden's ARI video clue playback), and dumb moments such as in the corner store where the store owner just sits there with a knocked out thief lying on his floor. Call the cops, dude! But those are just quibbles and don't really detract from the overall game. Get through a chapter, digest and ponder what has just transpired for a few moments, and then forge ahead to the next chapter.
Otherwise, on the whole, I can highly recommend Heavy Rain to a gameplayer who'd like to experience more mature themes and a different way of playing through a story. Definitely don't miss out on a thrilling adventure!
Heavy rain is epic May 14, 2010
Trecus (Singapore)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Wad can i say?? Awesome game, it makes me wanna replay a few times to see all the endings, there r like 18 endings for this game, wtf right?? And there are ways where u dun have to play through the whole thing, just the selected chapters to change the ending, i was never the CSI kinda guy, more of a Final fantasy and devil may cry gamer, but this game, it makes me feel very connected with the characters......This game will be in my head for a long long time
A new way of playing games May 1, 2010
Arlon Borges (Brasilia, DF BRA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
You don't know exactly how different Heavy Rain is until you play it... A great game with a deep history and a total new way of walking throug it... A new generation of games is born after this game... a new form of interaction.
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