According to European gaming magazine Chief, which is out next week in the Netherlands and Belgium, a number of titles have been confirmed to support PlayStation Move by Sony. Among the list of titles are some previously announced titles including SOCOM 4 and LittleBigPlanet, but new to the list is Heavy Rain. Although the magazine doesn’t go into details, the game is likely to receive a patch to enable Move support.
Many games have taken a stab at “adult” games, failing miserably by including copious amount of teenage angst, breasts or over the top blood, sometimes all three! Where they fail, Heavy Rain succeeds, where they fall short, Heavy Rain is the triumphant gold medallist. In gaming, something forgotten by the time the million dollar visuals are done is the narrative. But to create a game that fundamentally touches you, the story and the way the story is told has to be important. Heavy Rain is a story…an experience, with a game wrapped around it.
Given the nature of this title, spoilers are NOT included in this review.
Heavy Rain developer Quantic Dream have given some brief details of their next project. Unfortunate for folks hoping for a single-player sequel to Heavy Rain, the game’s creator has stated that he wants to take the success of Heavy Rain and apply it to an online gaming experience.
Quantic Dreams has finally addressed the issues experienced by some gamers in Heavy Rain by releasing a new patch today. The patch weighs in at 38MB and fixes the issues reported by users including the accidental nudity (did they really have to fix that one?), game crashes and audio glitches. Booting up your copy of Heavy Rain will prompt you to download the v1.02 patch.
The Heavy Rain glitches caused by the patch we reported last week are having some unusual consequences in the game. Kotaku reports a glitch one gamer experienced in which Madison Paige was completely in the buff. We have a clip and description of the glitch below for your viewing pleasure but be warned that the clip is NOT SAFE FOR WORK and contains SPOILERS.
With its unique gameplay and critical acclaim, Heavy Rain has sold over 500,000 units in its first week on shelves. Although the game received great reviews, many feared that the game would not do well in terms of sales. Preliminary sales data from VGChartz show that Heavy Rain is doing well so far. In key markets – around 200,000 were sold in the Americas, nearly 100,000 in the UK, over 50,000 in France and 25,000 in Japan.
As most of you already know or have read, Heavy Rain is essentially a interactive move with more emotion and depth than your typical game. It now seems like the game could be turned into a movie according to some paperwork filed by Quantic Dream and New Line Cinema (see below). Surprisingly enough, the filing was made in 2007 and not a lot of information has been revealed since.
Since Heavy Rain was patched earlier this week, a number of users have complained about issues in the game including graphical glitches and freezing. Sony is aware of the problem and is currently looking into “any common factors for people who are experiencing game freezing.” Sony also notes that the issues are present on a low number of machines.
Heavy Rain is officially out in North America and is rolling out across Europe throughout the week, but not all is well with the highly anticipated title. Up on booting the game for the first time players are prompted to download a 230MB patch which appears to be causing issues for some. The purpose of the patch is currently unknown as no official changelog was released.
Now that Heavy Rain is out, we though we should share the trophy list with everyone. But be warned, the list contains major game spoilers as each trophy is related to the story in some way. We recommend you play through the game at least twice over, making different choices each time, before taking a look at the list, but if you are impatient, check out the complete list of trophies below.
