Just finished playing through the Heavy Rain demo, and though it tills nothing about the story of the game (with the exception of the stuff we already knew), I am completely hooked. This really feels like a truly adult game, there is no candy coating, it's hard hitting neo noir, with interaction.
The breakdown is thus: you play as several different people all with the same goal, stop the origami killer from striking again, but all the motives are very different. You play as an FBI agent, a private detective, the father of a victim, and a woman who's connection is yet unknown. Each story is different and depending on what choices you make during the game directly affect the outcome of the story. If one of your characters dies you will have to play the game again to learn what could have happened to him, there is no extra lives, there is no life bar, if you can't do it, you either try again because failure couldn't kill you, or you die. The controls are minimal, there is NO hud (heads-up display), and keen observation and persistence are your only allies.
The only downside is that the game is only on the Playstation 3.
Nevertheless, if you get a raging hard-on for neo noir, and need to mainline pulp-cop-drama, this game is what you NEED.
God damnit... I may really need to buy a PS3,
ReplyDeleteThey released a Blade Runner game for PC like a decade ago, and I think they were trying hard to do something similar... it just didn't work, though. I think because of a combination of sucky technology and poor developer choices. It sounds like maybe they finally got it right.
This is the 4th game in this style form this developer, I've played all the others, and while they where good, they didn't have the visuals. So this really is the convergence point of what they where trying to do, might they do a better one down the line sure, but this is a wagon I wanna jump back on.
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