Category: PS3

Generally videogames tend to follow a tried and tested formula. The reason for this is a fairly simple one: the games publisher or developer knows that there’s already an audience out there for the product even before they start work on it, and so – assuming that they don’t make a complete hash of things – they can be guaranteed a fair few sales. Every so often though, someone decides to take a risk on a new idea and when this happens gamers might find themselves experiencing something new, like this latest from developer Quantic Dream, the PS3-exclusive Heavy Rain....

It’s hard what to make of Heavy Rain. It’s not really a game as we know it and it’s not really a movie. If you can imagine the two being merged together where you get to make some of the decisions and even control the movement of the characters then you’re close to what Heavy Rain is. In this game, the story is the star as you play as a number of different characters who are all involved in some way with the Origami killer – a nasty piece of work that drowns people. I won’t go into any more...