Monday, March 15, 2010

[PS3] Heavy Rain

So all it took was a couple of hours of playing over the weekend to complete. That kind of threw me off quite a bit as I kept on playing looking for the great big puzzles I was expecting to find that would fry my brain… and suddenly I had reached the end. It’s always disappointing when you pay a significant amount of money for a game only for it to end in 2 days.

On the bright side this game differed from anything else I ever played because it took a lot of the focus of the game itself. It was sort of like watching a film but having to press a few buttons every now and then. Different to other games was also the fact that you became a different character on different scenes. Also you can kind of see which parts of the plot would make a difference to the outcome so it’s interesting once you finish it to go back and try to change the flow of events just to get different endings.

When you were faced with a “puzzle” during the game all you had to do to solve was to thoroughly explore your environment and maybe make a couple of decisions but nothing major. As long as you looked at everything and made your character execute all possible actions regarding an element or clue then you would end up solving the mystery.

I think the concept was pretty good to start with and the graphics were not too bad. Maybe I would have enjoyed it more if there was more focus into creating interesting puzzles and dead ends into it instead of making an amazing cinematography. To be honest I wouldn’t rate it as highly as it was rated from a game perspective; maybe as a film or plot but definitely not as a game… But then that’s just me and my taste…

Game: 3/10 Graphics: 7/10 Plot: 8/10 Duration: 2/10

It’s a must try if you want something different to what you’re used to on the PS3.

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