Heavy Rain Review

Heavy Rain Is a game unlike anything I've played before. The story and emotion had me caring for the characters. Is this the best game ever made? No, but it's something everybody needs to experience.
The story is about a serial Killer named "The Origami Killer" Who has been killing boys in an eat coat town. There are 4 playable characters you take control of throughout the story. One of them, is Ethan an architect who was married with two kids, but after his eldest son is struck and killed by a car, he separates from his wife and is distant from his youngest son. Ethan fall into a deep depression and experiences blackouts. One day Ethan spends time with his kid at the park, and suffers a blackout waking up several hours later and his son missing. Later it is believed he was taken by the Origami killer. Norman Jayden is an F.B.I. Profiler sent to help the police capture the serial killer, he has a drug problem which you deal with trough out the game. Madison Paige is a journalist who helps Ethan track down the killer. Scott Shelby is a private detective hired by the family of the Origami Victims to track him down.

The game play, which is mostly quick time events makes the story progress, and when there is action the quick time events if done correctly will get you out of the situation alive, if not..well this will go horribly wrong. This call for some of the most tense moments I've had in my history of playing video games. There are many outcomes throughout the game and there are several endings. If one of the 4 characters you play dies, there is no game over, the game just continues on with out that character. It's crazy but it works. It's a great mystery story and when the climax arrives I found myself pretty shocked on who the killer is. I got the "Good" ending. This game ain't afraid of showing nudity or sex, so don't play this around kids or old people.

Now to the bad. When moving the character, its controlled like an old school resident evil game. So it's kind of awkward. The voice acting is not great, clearly not voiced by Americans it's annoying to hear and weird. Even if the game was made by a French video game developer, it could have shelled out a few extra bucks to hire American Voice actors. BUT these drawbacks in no way take away from the incredible experience this game offers.

Now it's an 8 hour game. It may seem short but there are many ways to play this game with several outcomes..It's a definite BUY