Heavy Rain

[Xesumie]

Today, I was in the basement of HMV in Manchester, or Gamerbase as it's known, a Body Odour infested computer place which is basically an arcade. There is one big flat screen TV hooked up to a PS3 and some guy was playing, I decided to watch instead of playing Rock Band.

It is basically: OUTSIDE: THE GAME. You play as some bearded bloke who needs a shave, so you violently thrust the controller around until you finish. After doing some other boring tasks by using the Six-axis controller to its best, you have to sword fight with one of your children, and you basically have to do everything on the screen at the right time.

If you don't do things at the right time, your characters Torso randomly jolts about until you get the sequence right. Then you run around a shopping mall for 10 hours mashing X while you scream JASON JASON JASON JASON JASON JASON JASON JASON JASON JASON JASON JASON, until you find him talking to a creepy clown, then you have to find out which pocket you have your money in so you can pay the clown for a balloon for Jason.

The graphics are so good that it made the clown look realistically scary, and now I'm probably going to have nightmares about it. Anyway, Jason then magically goes across the shiny road and you get blinded by excessive bloom/HDR. Then he runs across a road because he is stupid, natural selection goes by and then you end up in a coma and he died somehow even though you were hit and he wasn't.

Then some kid called Shawn/Sean/Shaun claims that he hates you so you, then you have the challenge of starting a car. Now because we're English, we forgot that you had to run around the car to get into it. Then after pressing every single button like you do in real life, the car starts. The area is also hit by heavy rain, as it is awfully said in a boring slow tone of voice by the hairy person you are playing.

Then you have to kill time which is extremely boring. Then Shaun got sent to bed early and he got really angry about it. Then your character has a boring headache and he wakes up in a rainy place. Then I got bored and went.

This game reminds me of what Yahtzee said in http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/748-Duke-Nukem-Forever in the aspect of you use every button to do real life things.

It's like a relationship, it may look good at first, but after a while it gets boring and you'd rather have fun with someone else. (Or in the case of reality, a different game)

Basically, it's not that good. Unless you're into story telling about boring real life.

(Also has a resemblance to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_%28video_game%29 )

Buy it if you're seriously into games like it.

 

[BOX oDAVE]

Wait what? okay first of all how in gods name is this a review? all you did was explain how much you hate the beginning of the story,and some charicters. Reviews are kinda supposed to be unbiased or it makes you sound like a douch,which you are. Call me crazy but usually in a review your kinda supposed to look at other aspects of a game other than the story or the graphics, like oh i dont know THE ACTUAL GAMEPLAY, or it also works better if you ACTUALLY PLAY THE GAME. And just so you know it does start out weak but it gets really interesting later on. This is pretty much the worst review ive ever seen and yes i just reviewed your review.

 

[Xesumie]

Wait what? okay first of all how in gods name is this a review? all you did was explain how much you hate the beginning of the story,and some charicters. Reviews are kinda supposed to be unbiased or it makes you sound like a douch,which you are. Call me crazy but usually in a review your kinda supposed to look at other aspects of a game other than the story or the graphics, like oh i dont know THE ACTUAL GAMEPLAY, or it also works better if you ACTUALLY PLAY THE GAME. And just so you know it does start out weak but it gets really interesting later on. This is pretty much the worst review ive ever seen and yes i just reviewed your review.

You press buttons at the right time, it causes certain events in the story to happen, basic boring game-play. I can say that, I have seen and tried it. If the start of a game doesn't entice me or anyone else, then it isn't that good. And I was looking at elements other than story and graphics. graphics are better than most games of today, that is a good point of it, but it just doesn't seem to excite me so it's story loses on that.

Oh and Caps lock doesn't make you look smart, you could just type normally, if you want to shout in your writing then you use exclamation marks. And you spelt Douche wrong. The game is simple and might be entertaining to people who like interactive movies, that is what the developers wanted to do, the suceed on that point, I am criticizing it because it doesn't appeal to me, it is my opinion of the game. If it is an opinion, then it must be biased in some way because it isn't a fact. Understand?

I reviewed your review of my review.

 

[MattRooney06]

you gotta point....if you ever played fareheit (or idigo propecy) its this with a lot less imersion

 

[S.R.S.]

For me no review is ever going to convince me to buy this game. I like story telling and everything but this is too much like kojima much. I use the word 'buy' because I'm a cheap bastard i'll probably get it off a friend if they get it.

Interesting way to review though seeing how the game plays out like a movie (so I've heard).

 

[Grensen]

Hmm that's different from the demo I played (I'm in the UK too) I played as a privite detective and got into a fight with Francis from L4D and then played as Mulder's half brother who works for the FBI and overall found it quite fun. From what I can tell from doing a bit of googling is that you play as four different characters thoughout the game whose storylines interlink at some point, you can choose different ways of dealing with situations as shown in a TV ad that the PD had the options of killing, apprehending or negotiating with a store robber. I found it amusing as I like story driven games but I guess that's just me.

 

[Xesumie]

@Grensen, this was the actually fully released game which the HMV staff allowed us to play.

 

[Marter]

1. Reviews should try best not to include spoilers.
2. The word "Then" should not be used 12 times in a review as short as this one was.
3. Play the game, then write a review. It allows for a more in-depth look, and would help you describe what happens, instead of writing something like "Then you have to kill time which is extremely boring." Also, playing through a story-heavy game all the way to the end would be of benefit, because otherwise you don't get to appreciate the strongest point of the game.
4. Get your review edited for Grammar/Spelling mistakes, as well as ways to vary the beginning of sentences.
5. Exaggeration isn't a terrible way to make a point, but extreme exaggeration like "Then you run around a shopping mall for 10 hours", is not the way to go about it. The game only lasts 8-10 hours, so unless your point is that running around a mall is the entire game, refrain from using such extreme exaggeration.
6. Get the names of characters correct before writing a review. You could easily read up on the internet what the character's name is.
7. Speaking of CAPS LOCK, you used it in 15 words. As you stated, CAPS LOCK doesn't make you look smart.
8. Repetition should be used a maximum of 3 times, not 12. Readers understand what you are trying to convey without reiterating it 12 times.
9. Yes, your review is an opinion, but reviews can be unbiased. This can be accomplished just by explaining what the game is about, rather than knocking it down. Instead of saying, "You press buttons at the right time, it causes certain events in the story to happen, basic boring game-play.", you can instead state that, "When buttons appear on the screen, you must press them to succeed in the cutscene". That makes it unbiased.
10. Your Relationship analogy was actually fairly decent.
11. Instead of linking to a game's website, (or in this case, Wikipedia), you could just state that it was like the game Farenheit, and then explain why it was like Farenheit.
12. Usually something doesn't just "Magically" occur. The only reason to state this, is if it was a problem with the game, and that the character actually teleported to a spot.

Alright, I think I'm done. I hope that doesn't come off too smart-ass-like, but I'm just trying to help out your review, and your writing for the future.

 

[Pipotchi]

Wait what? okay first of all how in gods name is this a review? all you did was explain how much you hate the beginning of the story,and some charicters. Reviews are kinda supposed to be unbiased or it makes you sound like a douch,which you are. Call me crazy but usually in a review your kinda supposed to look at other aspects of a game other than the story or the graphics, like oh i dont know THE ACTUAL GAMEPLAY, or it also works better if you ACTUALLY PLAY THE GAME. And just so you know it does start out weak but it gets really interesting later on. This is pretty much the worst review ive ever seen and yes i just reviewed your review.

I'm with this guy, having an opinion of the game is fine, good or bad but this isnt a review its just gibberish. As far as I can tell you watched someone else play Heavy Rain for a bit in a shop, is this really post worthy?

 

[qaztim]

well i bought the japanese version that came out a few days ago and let me tell the game gets alot better after the first 2 hours after you start doing the killers challenges and control madison (the character that has the most awesome and extreme events) the game goes from shat to a game that is flawed but you love the flaws

 

[Someperson307]

I must say, the fight sequence in the demo was certainly enjoyable. But I did not enjoy playing the baby face nighttime sunglasses guy. Seriously, sunglasses at night? Sure, they're magic glasses that can detect the sweat left on the ground by one of 30 policeman, but they're still sunglasses at night. And why the hell is that guy even there? If you've got 30 guys at a crime scene, adding one guy won't do much. But yeah, I'm getting off track. Basically: Private Investigator is fun, cop with magic glasses is not. But playing as the guy with kids doesn't sound very fun, either. It still looks like an interesting game.

 

[ribonuge]

Why is this in user reviews? What were you thinking? You can't judge a game by watching some guy play it a store. There is so many things wrong with this. Unless you are going to write in a clear and consistent manner with significant knowledge and background of having played the game, just don't post something like that.

Oh and please read marters post.

1. Reviews should try best not to include spoilers.
2. The word "Then" should not be used 12 times in a review as short as this one was.
3. Play the game, then write a review. It allows for a more in-depth look, and would help you describe what happens, instead of writing something like "Then you have to kill time which is extremely boring." Also, playing through a story-heavy game all the way to the end would be of benefit, because otherwise you don't get to appreciate the strongest point of the game.
4. Get your review edited for Grammar/Spelling mistakes, as well as ways to vary the beginning of sentences.
5. Exaggeration isn't a terrible way to make a point, but extreme exaggeration like "Then you run around a shopping mall for 10 hours", is not the way to go about it. The game only lasts 8-10 hours, so unless your point is that running around a mall is the entire game, refrain from using such extreme exaggeration.
6. Get the names of characters correct before writing a review. You could easily read up on the internet what the character's name is.
7. Speaking of CAPS LOCK, you used it in 15 words. As you stated, CAPS LOCK doesn't make you look smart.
8. Repetition should be used a maximum of 3 times, not 12. Readers understand what you are trying to convey without reiterating it 12 times.
9. Yes, your review is an opinion, but reviews can be unbiased. This can be accomplished just by explaining what the game is about, rather than knocking it down. Instead of saying, "You press buttons at the right time, it causes certain events in the story to happen, basic boring game-play.", you can instead state that, "When buttons appear on the screen, you must press them to succeed in the cutscene". That makes it unbiased.
10. Your Relationship analogy was actually fairly decent.
11. Instead of linking to a game's website, (or in this case, Wikipedia), you could just state that it was like the game Farenheit, and then explain why it was like Farenheit.
12. Usually something doesn't just "Magically" occur. The only reason to state this, is if it was a problem with the game, and that the character actually teleported to a spot.

Alright, I think I'm done. I hope that doesn't come off too smart-ass-like, but I'm just trying to help out your review, and your writing for the future.

 

[Korten12]

Today, I was in the basement of HMV in Manchester, or Gamerbase as it's known, a Body Odour infested computer place which is basically an arcade. There is one big flat screen TV hooked up to a PS3 and some guy was playing, I decided to watch instead of playing Rock Band.

It is basically: OUTSIDE: THE GAME. You play as some bearded bloke who needs a shave, so you violently thrust the controller around until you finish. After doing some other boring tasks by using the Six-axis controller to its best, you have to sword fight with one of your children, and you basically have to do everything on the screen at the right time.

If you don't do things at the right time, your characters Torso randomly jolts about until you get the sequence right. Then you run around a shopping mall for 10 hours mashing X while you scream JASON JASON JASON JASON JASON JASON JASON JASON JASON JASON JASON JASON, until you find him talking to a creepy clown, then you have to find out which pocket you have your money in so you can pay the clown for a balloon for Jason.

The graphics are so good that it made the clown look realistically scary, and now I'm probably going to have nightmares about it. Anyway, Jason then magically goes across the shiny road and you get blinded by excessive bloom/HDR. Then he runs across a road because he is stupid, natural selection goes by and then you end up in a coma and he died somehow even though you were hit and he wasn't.

Then some kid called Shawn/Sean/Shaun claims that he hates you so you, then you have the challenge of starting a car. Now because we're English, we forgot that you had to run around the car to get into it. Then after pressing every single button like you do in real life, the car starts. The area is also hit by heavy rain, as it is awfully said in a boring slow tone of voice by the hairy person you are playing.

Then you have to kill time which is extremely boring. Then Shaun got sent to bed early and he got really angry about it. Then your character has a boring headache and he wakes up in a rainy place. Then I got bored and went.

This game reminds me of what Yahtzee said in http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/748-Duke-Nukem-Forever in the aspect of you use every button to do real life things.

It's like a relationship, it may look good at first, but after a while it gets boring and you'd rather have fun with someone else. (Or in the case of reality, a different game)

Basically, it's not that good. Unless you're into story telling about boring real life.

(Also has a resemblance to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_%28video_game%29 )

Buy it if you're seriously into games like it.

so you reviewed the first part of a game and said its not good. good job at failing. im sorry but I dont even review games but if your going to review a game finish it first.

 

[elilupe]

I played as a privite detective and got into a fight with Francis from L4D

OH MY GOD he does look like Francis!

 

[elilupe]

Buy it if you're seriously into games like it.

You should not have ended your review like this. You are pretty much saying "buy this game if you think you will like this game". You should have ended with something concluding your review like "buy this game if you want to experience something different from most of the other games out there."(thats not exactly the best example) Try to sum up your experiance with the game and tell the readers exactly who you think would like the game you are reviewing. Im sorry if I sound like a smart-ass, but that last sentence was bugging me.

 

[ultrachicken]

Maybe actually play the game next time? Your review isn't going to carry any weight with anyone unless they know (or think) you have played through the entire game.