
Jason and Ethan are hit by a car Jason dies, and Ethan falls into a six-month coma. The day after celebrating his son Jason's tenth birthday, Ethan Mars ( Pascal Langdale) and his family go shopping. With PlayStation Move, the player wields either the motion and navigation controllers, or the DualShock and motion controllers. A chapter-select screen offers the function of playing scenes over again. Also featured are difficulty levels that the player can change at any point during the game. Interaction with the environment is done by pressing on-screen, context-sensitive prompts, using the right analogue stick, and performing Sixaxis control movements with the DualShock 3 or 4. Holding down R2 moves the character forward and the left analogue stick controls the direction. The game is divided into multiple scenes, each centering on one of the characters. Each playable character may die depending on the player's actions, which create a branching storyline in these cases, the player is faced with quick time events. Heavy Rain is an interactive drama and action-adventure game in which the player controls four different characters from a third-person perspective. The game is considered one of the greatest video games ever made, receiving praise for its emotional impact, visuals, writing, controls, voice acting, and music, though some critics faulted the controls, voice acting, and plot inconsistencies.īutton-prompts are used to interact with the environment. Heavy Rain was a critical and commercial success, winning three BAFTA awards and selling 5.3 million units by January 2018. The game was released for PlayStation 3 in February 2010, PlayStation 4 in 2016, and Windows in 2019.

Composer Normand Corbeil wrote the score, which was recorded at Abbey Road Studios. Game developer David Cage wrote the 2,000-page script, acted as director for the four years of development, travelled to Philadelphia to research the setting, and intended to improve upon what was flawed in his 2005 game Fahrenheit. The player's decisions and actions during the game affect the narrative. The player interacts with the game by performing actions highlighted on screen related to motions on the controller, and in some cases, performing a series of quick time events.


The game features four protagonists involved with the mystery of the Origami Killer, a serial murderer who uses extended periods of rainfall to drown his victims. Heavy Rain is a 2010 adventure game developed by Quantic Dream and published by Sony Computer Entertainment.
