Heavy Rain

Heavy Rain

Heavy Rain is one of those games you will play it once and never pick it up again. However, that one play through will rock your world, and make you question the future of gaming and movie. Heavy Rain has one of the best stories in my gaming history, and I think it can also be one of the best stories ever written. Heavy Rain will still be a great novel or movie on its own, but it’s the interactive of gaming that really brings out the greatness of it better than anything else. Heavy Rain is not the first of its kind; however it’s the first that does it so perfectly. The graphic, music and gameplay all work perfectly together to tell this great detective story set in this none distance future.  

You played as four different characters living totally unrelated life, and slowly throughout the story it brings them all together to the big picture. In a way I think Heavy Rain it’s more like a interactive movie than a game as you can only do it once. There are things that you can change and the ending will change base on your path of actions, but once the big mystery is out there it’s just not that interesting anymore.

Player spend a lot of time doing normal daily things with the main characters, like taking a bath, watching TV, making dinner and driving, but it’s those little things that really connect the player to those characters. We start to act like those characters, and we care and worry for their business. However is those little boring things that prevents me from playing it the second time.

Personally I believe this will become a great example for people making game heavily base on narrative, and those are going to be the alternate movie and novel in the future. This can also be great for educational purpose…imagine in the future we learn things through experiencing different situation and digital environment?  I think those will a more effective way of learning than anything else.