Powerful and emotionally engaging narrative, Story continually adapts to your actions, Unique controls convey drama and tension, Highly detailed characters and environments, Stirring soundtrack
Plot holes and heavy-handed villains, Technical issues break immersion, Poor movement controls
This deeply moving adventure adapts to your every action and is not to be missed....
Abstract: Heavy Rain is not the easiest video game sell. It's a dreary adventure gameplay about depressed people, origami and a serial killer. And there's rain ... lots and lots of rain. This is not the uplifting game of the year. You will not be inspired by...
Emotional experience that pulls you in, Choices have weight and consequences, Trivial details may come back to haunt you, Characters can actually die, and the story continues on, 10-hour play time, but you'll want to play through more than once to make di
Voice acting can be weak, and heavily accented, Game can be short if you only play once, It may sound weird or aloof, but much of the emotional punch may be missing if you don't have children, A few subplots seem to peter out to nothing. at least in my
Abstract: Quantic Dream would have you believe that Heavy Rain is not a videogame. The studio has long-standing fantasies of being in the film industry, to the point where its last game, Fahrenheit, completely masqueraded as a movie. Director David Cage even p...
Heavy Rain is a hell of an experience. Its controversial control scheme actually works really well in allowing the fantastic story to dictate how events play out, and many of the game's scenes will keep you on the edge of your seat. It starts slow and...
Abstract: When discussing the evolution of video games as artistic entertainment, commentators and pontificators alike have asked a simple question: "Can a game make you cry?" Let's get this out of the way first: Heavy Rain will most likely not make you cry. It ...
Abstract: Quantic Dream's much-discussed opus is a difficult game to review. The inspiration drawn from previous David Cage titles like Fahrenheit is obvious, but the game perhaps owes a larger debt of gratitude to Hollywood. In an era that sees games moving int...
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Published: 2010-01-01, Author: Anthony , review by: gamespy.com
Fantastic use of quick-time events; wonderful narrative; your choices matter; immense replay value.
Clunky movement controls; the characters' beautiful faces are firmly entrenched in uncanny valley territory.
