Sony Computer Entertainment Sony Computer Entertainment Heavy Rain was built around a 2,000-page script written by its main creator, David Cage, but as a player you experience only that part of the script that is relevant, as a result of your actions over the roughly 10-hour narrative.Īn F.B.I profiler, left, and Ethan Mars, a father, in Heavy Rain. What exactly happens to them, even whether each lives or dies, is up to you. The four main characters that the player controls are the keepers of secrets and demons within their own lives. In fact, things go very wrong for Ethan, and Heavy Rain becomes the story of his journey and yours to rescue what little he can of his life. Of course, there would be no game if things stayed perfect. Ethan Mars is the happy father of a perfect family, with a beautiful wife and two beatific young sons.

agent, a journalist, a private investigator and, most important, a parent. This story is told through the perspectives of four people: an F.B.I. (The game doesn’t explicitly reveal the name of the city, but the clues and resemblance are clear.) The Origami Killer has been abducting young boys, who are then found dead, drowned in rainwater. The game takes place among the gray mists of a nasty, wet, sodden autumn in the rundown industrial precincts of Philadelphia. Heavy Rain is one of the few games set in an approximation of the real world. Heavy Rain, Quantic Dream’s noirish game for the PlayStation 3, was released this week by Sony.

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