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Award: Editor’s Choice February 2010
February 2010
 
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The editors liked

  • Epic story
  • Tons of options to choose from
  • And impressive design
  • 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
  • Simply put
  • One of the most beautiful games on any system
  • Ever
  • Heavy Rain has a fascinating story
  • It is dark
  • Chilling and better than most modern thriller films
  • The sheer volume of art
  • Dialog
  • And animation is this game is hard not to be impressed by
  • At times Heavy Rain feels more like a good film than a game
  • Heavy Rain deserves props for boldly taking on adult content in a meaningful way
  • Fantastic use of quick-time events
  • Wonderful narrative
  • Your choices matter
  • Immense replay value.
  • Powerful and emotionally engaging narrative
  • Story continually adapts to your actions
  • Unique controls convey drama and tension
  • Highly detailed characters and environments
  • Stirring soundtrack
  • Incredible facial animations
  • Plot changing gameplay
  • Invokes emotion
  • Fantastic narrative
  • Amazing suckerpunching narrative mechanics made to draw you in
  • Emotion inducing storytelling and some of the best visuals in a game to date.

The editors didn't like

  • The movement controls are funky and the voice acting is often horrible.
  • 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
  • Heavy Rain is too filmic
  • One has to wonder why they didn't make an animated film instead of a game
  • Wonderful story aside
  • Heavy Rain feels more like playing simon says than a deep adventure game
  • I still don't understand why I have to hold a button to walk
  • And why I can't run at will
  • Heavy Rain is simply to slow to enjoy thoroughly
  • Heavy Rain's attempt to create interactive fiction compromis
  • Clunky movement controls
  • The characters' beautiful faces are firmly entrenched in uncanny valley territory.
  • Plot holes and heavy-handed villains
  • Technical issues break immersion
  • Poor movement controls
  • Clunky walking
  • Screen tearing and frame rate issues
  • Small
  • But numerous technical issues breach immersion sometimes
  • Control scheme not for everybody
  • Some character animations can seem robotic at times and voice acting has some accent cracking.

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  Published: 2017-04-24, Author: Matthew , review by: cheatcc.com

  • Abstract:  Can video games be a valid art form or cultural entertainment? Or more simply put, can they evoke an emotion in a player the same way a feature film or book can? While gamers and journalists alike know the answer to those questions, too often critics and...

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  Published: 2010-12-14, review by: gameobserver.com

  • Heavy Rain is a storytelling masterpiece. I have four friends who have played the game all the way through, and all of us experienced different endings with radically dissimilar paths along the way. The one constant factor, no matter how you reach the...

 
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  Published: 2010-11-22, review by: about.com

  • Simply put, one of the most beautiful games on any system, ever, Heavy Rain has a fascinating story, it is dark, chilling and better than most modern thriller films, The sheer volume of art, dialog, and animation is this game is hard not to be impressed by, At times Heavy Rain feels more like a good film than a game, Heavy Rain deserves props for boldly taking on adult content in a meaningful way
  • Heavy Rain is too filmic, one has to wonder why they didn't make an animated film instead of a game, Wonderful story aside, Heavy Rain feels more like playing simon says than a deep adventure game, I still don't understand why I have to hold a button to walk, and why I can't run at will, Heavy Rain is simply to slow to enjoy thoroughly, Heavy Rain's attempt to create interactive fiction compromis
  • Heavy Rain is a gorgeous next gen adventure game that tells a dark and fascinating tale of a child murderer. While the productions values are top notch, the game frequently feels like a very slow rhythm game (Adventure Hero? Story Story Revolution?), i...

 
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  Published: 2010-03-24, review by: gameusagi.com

  • Abstract:  The crux of Heavy Rain is without a doubt its story, it’s what the whole gameplay experience is based on and why people are talking about this title in the first place. The player will be taking control of four different characters, each with their ow...

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  Published: 2010-03-24, review by: diehardgamefan.com

  • Heavy Rain is a very good game in its own right as it is easily accessible to gamers from all walks of life, boasts an interesting story as well as some amazing visuals. At the same time, one can’t forget that the game is, as its basest essence, the sa...

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  Published: 2010-03-22, review by: blogcritics.org

  • Abstract:  This emotional interactive thriller, a PlayStation 3 exclusive, becomes the ultimate mature choose-your-own-adventure. Fast reaction times and a large screen are prerequisites as players dive into an immersive game world without the safety net of tradi...

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  Published: 2010-03-14, review by: gamervision.com

  • Abstract:  Heavy Rain is a difficult nut to crack. On many levels, the latest Sony exclusive for the Playstation 3, is a breath of fresh air that updates an old game style for today's modern gamers but its not a perfect game by any stretch of the imagination, reg...

 
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  Published: 2010-03-12, review by: gamechronicles.com

  • Abstract:  Adventure games are the "missing link" in the evolution of video games. With all of the intense action and FPS titles dominating the market most of us forget that it all got started more than 30 years ago with text-adventures like Zork; one of the fir...

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  Published: 2010-03-09, review by: strategyinformer.com

  • Heavy Rain is not the dawning of a new videogame era. Neither is it the advent of a new genre as has been touted by developer Quantic Dream. Heavy Rain is actually a spiritual successor to Fahrenheit (aka Indigo Prophecy), taking the foundations of the...

 
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  Published: 2010-03-08, review by: realmofgaming.com

  • Abstract:  Heavy Rain. A type of weather that we as Brits are pretty used to anytime of the year, living where we are in the world. It also happens to be the title of Quantic Dreams newest game for the PS3 and takes the bold step of further bridging the gap betwe...

 
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