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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: 2010-02-18, review by: gameplanet.co.nz

  • Fantastic story, and a successful achievement as an interactive movie. Graphics are very impressive in certain scenes. Emotionally engaging. Some of the tenses moments I have experienced in a game. Replay value if you want to see all the different outcome...
  • Some very bad voice acting. Realistic graphics can make some characters look strange. Sound, camera and graphical bugs. The story has a few major plot-holes. The early levels are a bit too slow, which may stop some players from getting into the game.

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  Published: 2010-02-10, review by: nzgamer.com

  • Abstract:  So is it a movie, or ain't it? If the whole damn world can't decide, then how should you? Well, you could start by playing it. We wrote in our hands-on preview for Heavy Rain that "it's a game, not a film," but after playing the full version, it seems ...

 
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  Published: 2010-01-01, review by: stuff.co.nz

  • Abstract:  Heavy Rain is a unique piece of electronic entertainment, because it is not really a "game" in the traditional sense of the word. The best description would be "interactive movie". It has a fairly linear progression but how successful you are at "playi...

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  Published: 2012-11-20, review by: xtragamer.co.uk

  • Abstract:  Heavy Rain has to be one of the most realistic games to grace the PlayStation 3 and could actually be a key reason to buy the console if you don’t currently have one, as for all you Wii and Xbox 360 owners, unfortunately, this game is only available fo...

 
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  Published: 2010-04-17, review by: theregister.co.uk

  • Abstract:  Entertaining, thought-provoking and not to be easily dismissed. These are the reactions that come to mind after working my way through Heavy Rain, the interactive drama/game from developer Quantic Dream, a company previously known mainly for Fahrenheit...

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  Published: 2010-04-03, review by: zath.co.uk

  • Like any other game it has its faults and certain presentation features, like voice acting, are going to be held under more scrutiny due to the nature of the genre in contrast with traditional games, but if you own a PS3 this is a must play and it’s gr...

 
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  Published: 2010-02-28, review by: darkzero.co.uk

  • Abstract:  Published February 27th 2010. Written by Ian Dickson. Heavy Rain has been causing quite a stir within the games industry since its announcement a couple of years ago. David Cage, head of Quantic Dream has been persistent in outlining Heavy Rain’s role ...

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  Published: 2010-02-26, review by: yetanotherreviewsite.co.uk

  • Fantastic graphics and attention to detail, Immersive and heart-breaking plot full of twists, Graphics and sound all compliment the acting capabilities of the cast
  • Walking controls can be frustrating to work around, Impressive length can lead to issues with replayability

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  Published: 2010-02-18, review by: pocket-lint.com

  • Graphics, storyline, intensity
  • Sometimes you feel you are just following a sequence of prompts
  • Heavy Rain is far from flawless, but if you take gaming seriously, you really need to experience it for yourself....

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  Published: 2010-02-16, review by: electricpig.co.uk

  • The storytelling. The stunning visuals. The emotional choices
  • At times awkward controls. Lack of videogame interaction at some points; too much "gameyness" at others
  • The future of storytelling in videogames – proper grown-up and gripping stuff...

 
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