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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: 2010-03-05, review by: gamingshogun.com

  • Epic story, tons of options to choose from, and impressive design,
  • The movement controls are funky and the voice acting is often horrible.
  • We got our hands on a copy of SONY and Quantic Dream's epic PlayStation 3 title - Heavy Rain. Will this interactive video game/movie make the grade or get left out in the rain? Find out in our full review, After the Break!Full Review:Quantic Dream ha...

 
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  Published: 2010-03-05, review by: game-boyz.com

  • Abstract:  Despite a 720p native resolution, Heavy Rain is graphically stunning. The environments are mature and offer a real world setting that enhances the prevailing adult theme of the game. Every frame is rendered to reinforce the emotionally charged and fra...

 
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  Published: 2010-03-04, review by: gameplaymonthly.com

  • Abstract:  Shaun Mars is missing. He was last seen playing at a local park, before the rain started to pour. You might assume that he just ran away – his home life wasn’t exactly perfect – and pray that he’ll show up at the door any second now. But deep down, y...

 
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  Published: 2010-03-03, review by: gamertell.com

  • Emotion inducing storytelling and some of the best visuals in a game to date.
  • 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: 2010-03-01, review by: brighthub.com

  • Abstract:  Brighthub looks at Quantic Dream studios' latest. A high profile PS3 exclusive, Heavy Rain strives to perfect a method of interactive entertainment, the end result is a unique but niche experience. Point and click 2.0Quantic Dream, headed up by game d...

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  Published: 2010-03-01, review by: newgamenetwork.com

  • Abstract:  Heavy Rain is a very interesting game. All of the developer interviews and previews hailed it for innovation and its amazing cinematic experience. But with so much hype and expectation from both fans and critics, did the latest from Quantic Dream manag...

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  Published: 2010-02-28, review by: hookedgamers.com

  • Amazing suckerpunching narrative mechanics made to draw you in
  • Small, but numerous technical issues breach immersion sometimes

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  Published: 2010-02-25, review by: atomicgamer.com

  • Abstract:  David Cage is a man of deliberation. Where most developers don’t bother much with characterization or dialogue interaction, he revels in it. Rather than pointing a gun at someone to solve all problems, he prefers to create characters that use their ...

 
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  Published: 2010-02-23, review by: evergeek.com

  • Abstract:  Heavy Rain is somewhat reminiscent of old school, follow-the-blinking-icon-prompt adventures like Dragon's Lair, where snippets of what is otherwise a movie are chained by events that require a quick input from you, the viewer/player.These days, such q...

 
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  Published: 2010-02-23, review by: gamersdailynews.com

  • Abstract:  I went into Heavy Rain fairly open-minded because I’m always looking for something new. I knew that it wasn’t exactly a game but more of a film that the player guided. Apparently, the decisions you make and things you do will affect the way the story g...

 
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