Written by Jon Clapham
Format: Ps3
Genre: Err…Quick Time Interactive Game..thingy
Sitting down to review Heavy Rain is no easy task – there are times when it barely feels like a game at all, and though it has become clichéd to call this game an ‘interactive movie’, that is what it is.
Quantic Dream’s previous game, Fahrenheit, was their first attempt at bridging the gap between the world of film and games, and while Heavy Rain is leagues ahead of it’s predecessor, it still suffers from some of the same problems in the storytelling department.
Analysing the storytelling is what will take most of the review (spoiler-free, I hasten to add), and yes the graphics and sound are very important, but from this project’s inception director David Cage has frequently commented on the game’s emotional impact and original storytelling, hyping them as something never-before-seen in the realm of videogames.
So has he and the team at Quantic Dream been successful? For the most part, yes.
