The emotional driven, Heavy Rain, developed by Quantic Dream and published by SCEE is finally here after their teaser debut from E3 2006. Your morals will be tested immediately and you’ll quickly find yourself immersed thanks to the graphically charged cinematic storyline and unique decision based scenarios. The gritty camera scenes and musical scores add to this dark psychological thriller and you’ll swear you’re controlling movie actors.  But this is not the first psychological thriller directed by David Cage, he and Quantic Dream also developed 2005’s PS2 hit Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy in US). Five years have passed and now David Cage has the opportunity to present his latest masterpiece on the PS3. In Heavy Rain, your smallest decisions can change everything making each play one-of-a-kind and different every time. There are no right or wrongs, but instead choices.   Choices that come with risks and rewards.  Heavy Rain is an emotional rollercoaster blended fittingly with love, addiction, suicide, life and death. Just a bit of warning, unless your “numb” this game will consume you as a player while at the same time test you as a human being.

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Ever get mixed up pressing a button on your controller?  Triangle instead of Square?  Well, you’ll be surprised to know many gamers still do.  For the most part, I’m very comfortable with the PS3 controller.  I’ve occasionally pressed the wrong button during a QTE (Quick Time Event).  You know, where you have to press an onscreen button at that exact moment.  Well Heavy Rain is full of QTEs and you better get familiar with the layout of the controller before you play.
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