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Heavy Rain trailer
Heavy Rain might just be the title that takes games from 'mindless entertainment' to something more serious and acceptable. Might.
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I'm sure you've heard about the PS3 network crash on Monday. Up until then I'd been playing through Heavy Rain and had just hit another challenge in the game - guiding one of your characters through a tunnel filled with broken glass. Despite trying over and over the game would not let me steer him the way I wanted to go, which ended up with me being booted out of the tunnel and being awarded a "coward" trophy for not completing the challenge. This pissed me off so much I stopped playing, was about try again when the network crashed and I haven't played it since. While I still want to find out the end of the story ... Heavy Rain isn't a "game". It's an "interactive drama" where all your actions are pretty much dictated which leaves you moving from one QTE to the next doing things from brushing your teeth to changing a baby. I don't want to do stuff like this, I imagine it's what the Sims is like, what's next? Press X to wipe arse? It's a shame because there are some good set pieces and several sections where the QTE, graphics and music really work well to build up the tension ... but they don't happen enough to make it worthwhile. Soon as I'm finished this is getting traded for something a lot more entertaining - God of War 3.
I must must must get this game
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