- Publisher: SCEA
- Release Date: Feb 23, 2010
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- Developer: Quantic Dream
- Genre(s): Adventure Games
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 99 out of 107
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Mixed: 5 out of 107
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Negative: 3 out of 107
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Heavy Rain is a rare experience that can be enjoyed by a watching audience and not just the person with the control pad. It's also one that you'll certainly want to play through at least one more time just to see what you missed and perhaps reach a better outcome.
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71Ultimately, the technical issues tainted the experience beyond what I'm prepared to take, which is a terrible shame considering the level of effort that has been put in to craft an engaging and thrilling storyline. Offering a multitude of endings is redundant if I don't want to go back and play through the game again, and I had a strong desire to see this work. In a way, I still enjoyed my time with it and can definitely see myself returning to any similar games that come along, and with smoother controls and no technical issues, there is every chance that future titles could become masterpieces.
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Heavy Rain looks amazing and it puts in an outstanding effort to further how video games can be used to tell a story, but it's not good enough. David Cage - the game's Creative Director - has argued that Heavy Rain isn't a video game, it's an interactive movie. If you were to remove the interactive part of Heavy Rain and focus on the plot, characters and acting you'd come away disappointed, and by misunderstanding fundamental elements of character representation in interactive media it fails to utilise interactivity to its advantage either.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 121 out of 170
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Mixed: 18 out of 170
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Negative: 31 out of 170
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