Euro retailers point to Feb. 26 release for Heavy Rain

by David Hinkle on Dec 11th 2009 4:15PM

European retailers have updated their pages for Heavy Rain, predicting the game will fall on European store shelves on February 26. For those of you keeping score at home, Famitsu said the game is releasing to Japan in February as well, lending some credibility to the proposed February 26 release in Europe.

We contacted SCEE -- who gave us the cold shoulder -- but we also sent word to SCEA, who said: "We haven't announced a release date for North America ... but stay tuned as we will have a release date soon."

Source - GAME
Source - Gamestation
Source - Play.com

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Reader Comments (46)

Anybody else sort of suspect that this game can't possibly live up to the hype?

No.

Shh, last time I was less than enthusiastic about this game, I got attacked by a mob. People are going to love it no matter what because it's new and fresh, regardless of it's flaws.

It definitely wont sell a ton. What it will do is prove sales don't matter for a game to be good.

Seriously. . . "To make the dancing girl move her elbow, press circle. Now make her lean her head to the left, push X"

WTF? Sounds exciting.

You know what? Sometimes extremely ambitious games live up to the hype (Rock Band, Braid), and sometimes they don't (Scribblenauts, Brutal Legend).

When a developer with a good track record is pushing some very creative ideas, I tend to get excited about it.

Maybe I'll feel more like a badass if I stop looking forward to the game, and start shitting on it. Let me try:

HEAVY RAIN? MOAR LIKE DRAGON'S LAIR 3, AMIRITE? QUANTIC DREAM THINKS I'M GOING TO "PRESS X TO FORM EMOTIONAL BOND" LOLOLOL

Nope, didn't work, just made me feel like a bit of a douche.

I don't think it will live up to the hype. But I sure will enjoy it immensely. I loved Indigo Prophecy, and this looks to be -- in every way -- better.

You seem angry for some reason.

@Carmel

I have a feeling the game will have a metacritic score in the high 70's-low 80's and might move 175k units in itsvrelease window.

I all I rember was some people saying it's best for the game to come out before you judge the entirety of it's content from a few bit sized snippets. Some of what's been shown won't even be in the final product. I'd hardly say it was a mob mentality attacking you. I'm just glad there are still developers that aren't afraid of taking risks and playing it safe. I don't know that I'd even say this game has a lot of hype ... Certainly not as much as forza 3, uncharted 2 and modern warfare 2 did and for most they all lived up to or exceeded their hype. I think the one game that overachieved (to me anyway) was assassins creed 2.

You were critical of the animations weren't you?

@J#5

I was critical on the animations and more importantly the voice acting. It just bothers me that the whole point of the game is to tell a great story and the key to that is believeable characters. When oher games have done believable characters better without it being the key focus, it just makes me wonder about the overall quality of the game. While it's true that you can't judge the overall experience from little snippets, I still think the complaints are relavant. A game where the actual gameplay isn't the core focus needs exquisite attention to detail in order to truly shine, in my opinion. MGS4 shined because in the cutscenes, where everything was brilliantly animated and the voice acting was great, you could really get into the story (as goofy as it was).

That said, it still looks good, and I'll probably end up buying it because like you said, it's great when devs try something new. Also have to give credit to sony to publishing things like this when there's a high chance it won't sell as well as other titles.

Aww, don't be like that, everyone loves Dragon's Lair...I mean, Heavy Rain.

Gives me.......plenty of time....to do....other things......if we.......get it.........in............February.....

*Shakes head

I've got nothing.

You don't have to wait till February to masturbate, Marco. Right now is fine.
Well.... maybe not RIGHT now.

......gwahh.....ahh.......aawww.....ayeeee....gwaa......yeaaa....

Thanks, Brooke Skye...you save.

eww.

Can't wait for this game...

Gives me plenty of time to go through Mass Effect 2, but it collides with Splinter Cell...making me one broke bastard with not enough free time.

Will I finally bite the bullet and get myself a PS3 ?..... Well my 360 is pretty much dead (E73/4) and the Wii is like my girl on the side which can't really meet all my needs but is good at the time. Man, £250 bucks is not taste and see money, I need help here!

Yes, go for it. If you're got the money to spend it's worth it.

you will buy a PS3 for this game... you should anyway... I'm a hardcore XBOX fanboy and I'm buying a PS3 to play this game (and a little bit of Uncharted, Metal Gear, and LBP)... it feels so wrong... but it feels so right.

Had both a Wii and a 360 for well over a year before I recently got the PS3. Great games, I've been playing a lot of LBP. For me that's basically all console choices really boil down to nowadays, what games you want to play. There's going to be sweet exclusives on each. If you have that kind of leisure cash and gaming is a hobby worth spending it on to you, you can't go wrong!

Good point on the exclusives, I doubt here will be another price drop in Q1/Q2 2010 so I guess at long last it's time. Besides, this game just looks too fresh to ignore, conceptually that is.

Demon's Souls wants you.

It's worth it. I just got one after the price drop and couldn't be happier. With the onslaught of great exclusives coming out it's going to be the console I play the most for a while.

That's much too close to Final Fantasy XIII to make me happy. I'm really looking forward to Heavy Rain, but if I have to choose between Heavy Rain and Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy is winning.

No biggy, though. I'll just buy it later on.

In a seven-week period, I'll be getting Mass Effect 2, Splinter Cell, Heavy Rain, and Final Fantasy 13.

That's a pretty damn amazing start to 2010, considering there were no retail releases in 2009 that I was remotely interested in until Batman at the end of August.

So yeah, I'll have to space these out over the first half of the year, but I expect I'll hit Heavy Rain early since it will have a shorter playthrough time than ME2 or FF13.

HEAVY MARKETING
The Interest Killer

Is this a sequel to Chubby Rain by Bobby Bowfinger?

aaaaaahhahaahh I forgot about that. oh man!

I walked out of the blair witch project and snuck into that. it saved my day.

One of the best comedies ever! +1 for remembering such an awesome film, sir!

"Starr Warrs!"

......gwahh.....ahh.......aawww.....ayeeee....gwaa......yeaaa....

Thanks, Brooke Skye...you save.

Didn't get funnier the second time you posted it.

I'll be sure to take note of that next time. Or just make sure I click the reply button the first time.

Let's see, if it's going to be released in Europe on 26 February 2010, that means the release date in North America is...2001. It's already been discontinued. That's why we don't see it on store shelves.

Yea I dont think its going to live up to the hype either...Watching that Blue Lagoon gameplay video it looks kinda boring...putting on macara and lipstick with a mini game seems kinda boring...Im sure theres much more to gameplay than that but still...:/

I didn't realize this game had a subtitle...

"The Origami Killer" - would anyone really care if you killed Origami? I mean, it's paper...

It wasn't funny, so I'd say it was a perfect Seinfeld impersonation.

*Plays ridiculous slap bass transition rift.

woohoo! releasing on my birthday! what an awesome surprise!

I hope that means your buying it as gift to yourtself, to support it you know.

I wish they'd announce the U.S. date.

December 24th would be nice.

This game is intended for mature games players who enjoy narrative and are willing to forgo an element of interactivity for a richer and more believable world.

The hype being generated for this game isn't that it is the best, most fun video game ever, it's that its being made for adults who live in the real world.

Its not hyped except among core gamers. Hardly any ads yet, and its getting a lot of attention because its new. And they deserve attention just for that, had enough of the umpteenth shooter or racing games. It may not sell 5 million, but then, even games like Mass Effect and Uncharted sold 2-2.5 million.

My birthday's the 22nd of Feb, all the best games are coming out like a week or two later.
So far there's Battfield Bad Company 2, Gran Turismo 5, God of War3, Max Payne 3, Agent...now Heavy Rain...fuming I'm going to have to dig into my own pockets!!!

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Euro retailers point to Feb. 26 release for Heavy Rain

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