Heavy Rain official site launches, announces 'Four Days Challenge'

"Let yourself be drawn deep into the world of Heavy Rain with 'Four Days' - a three-week online mystery"

Anyone else find something wrong with that statement?

I want to participate, since I'm somewhat excited for Heavy Rain but is that the only reward...a Home shirt?? That's pretty weak if that's the case.

Wow, the music sounds amazing... Heavy Rain is a real wild card for Q1. I hope it does well.

Hmm... I'll probably check it out when I get home. Heavy Rain is easily my most anticipated game of the year.

The Home shirt comes with an all-access pass that'll give you access to special Heavy Rain content in Home.

Better than nothing but I can't can't be bothered with Home.

an Adventure game

This was already posted on joystiq?
Maybe 2-3 days ago.

It's an evolution of those old-style point-and-click adventure games. You walk around the scene (in third person), and interact with the environment/other people.

Action-y scenes are all done via QTEs (although QTEs that look far better than any other QTEs in any other game).

It's a very story driven affair, with your actions affecting how the story plays about.


So, no, not a shooter.

Anyone else having problems signing up? I'll keep trying though.

Please tell me that was a joke and you were just making fun of all the people that have to be "hardcore" and EVERY game a shooter... PLEASE tell me you weren't being serious.

running "in real time across three weeks," the Heavy Rain "Four Days Challenge"

first giant green bugs and hadoukening the internet, now its time travel. what maroons

to be fair to him most of the media about it seems focused on that chick stripping or random other vignettes that could be construed as an action game

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_rain

there you go you apparently its too hard for you to do yourself

NO THERE ARE NO REVIEWS BECAUSE IT ISNT OUT YET

I do believe this is going to be a very interesting game, one that I may just buy...

but for a free PS Home t-shirt, I think I'll pass and instead focus my energy on Mass Effect 2 ;)

Can someone do that Google thing where you... Aw Hell, I'll do it:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Heavy+Rain+storyline

literally everything known about the game so far is there, if you would have just fucking read it instead of asking HMMMM WHAT SITS ABOUT ABWOWHHHMMMM WHAT KIDN OF GAME IS IT you would have known. it has an outline of the basic plot if your reading skills werent less than those of a kindergartener. get out of my sight you plebe.

as the planeteer with the power of Asses I demand you change your name to Bad Sailor

You're both asses. Or, at least according to the user names you picked, you're both somewhat asses.

I'd say it's common sense these days that people expect you to use the search button (or, if the one on Joystiq only half works for you, like it does for me, use google).

If you can't first search for something yourself, then don't expect to get nice replies.

That being said however, the people replying also didn't have to be rude. Apparently helping someone out is too hard for Joystiq. (Though kudos to those who actually answered his questions).

As they said, it's a very story driven game where the gameplay revolves around the decisions you make during hte QTE events. You can even choose to do nothing during them, and see what happens. You're investigating a serial killer in the game. You play through the game through the eyes of different characters, each with their own view on things. Any or even all of the characters can die or survive. There is no real ending or "good ending" for being a completionist. The entire story depends on what you do and when.

That said, they haven't released much info on the story itself, but if you check the past articles on Joystiq they do have some videos and pics of the various characters and levels (and some of the more risque events in-game).

SonicSpike your make the worst posts.

It does look pretty awesome albeit in a different way than other games that look awesome. It's kind of like a choose your own adventure that revolves around four different characters. When a character dies the narrative continues and the developers encourage the player to continue playing even if that character that died was your favorite. Also, all four characters can die and you still get closure on the narrative. There are no continues or do-overs just like real life.

If you want to get an idea about the gameplay or the game itself go here: http://www.gametrailers.com/game/heavy-rain/2717 and watch some of the gameplay trailers, developer commentary and demonstrations.

The only thing we really know about the story itself is that it revolves around tracking the origami killer who has kidnapped another child. Each character has their own incentive to track the killer down all of which haven't been explained. Some characters will also cross paths within the context of their own personal scene. But, the story can play out so many different ways that there is really no way to explain the contents of the story because its up to the player to decide.

I just think its something thats new and fresh and I'm pretty stoked to play it. It certainly won't be for everyone because there isn't multiplayer and its just not normal from a gameplay experience. It could completely fail to deliver like so many other new concepts before it (mirrors edge for example) but it could also succeed in doing something new (little big planet for example) and carve out a niche for these types of games. In terms of my own personal anticipation its up there with gran turismo 5 and final fantasy 13 but that certainly won't make it immune to criticism.

Hope that helped answer some of the questions you had about the concept of the game.

I was going to pass on this one...but I can't. I'm going to buy it.

Do we get the reward after the four day thing, or upon registration? I tried registering, but my browser didn't load after I clicked "register me" then I tried registering my email later, and it said I'm already registered...just wondering if I need to register again for the shirt.

I need this and Alan Wake ASAP. More interesting new IP's with interesting narratives are always welcome in my gaming collection. Plus you can't go wrong with Quantic Dream's David Cage and Remedy's Sam Lake.

This is going to be the most amazing 1st quarter for gaming in recent history. I just finished Darksiders today and that was the best 19 hours I've spent gaming in a long time. What a great game, I'm excited for the sequel in two years. But seriously, ME2, Heavy Rain, FFXIII, Splinter Cell, Galaxy 2, etc. 2010 is going to be one of the most kickass years ever.

"It's not gonna do well sales wise (can't say anything about critical acclaim). It's just not the type of game to sell well."
I thought the same thing when I got Professor Layton. Turns out, it sold amazingly. Just because you take a risk doesn't mean it won't sell well. The hype it's received (and if it gets amazing review scores) will guarantee enough success for the publisher/developer. I'm buying it Day Uno.

The Heavy Rain shirt is a Europe Home Exclusive. It will not work for NA Home.

cant you just google it ?

Well..
" The only thing we really know about the story itself is that it revolves around tracking the origami killer who has kidnapped another child. http://www.popsnail.com/video-converters/cucusoft-ultimate-dvd-video-converter-suite-6-2-98.html Each character has their own incentive to track the killer down all of which haven't been explained. "

Oh, well that's a huge let down, a free t-shirt is the only reason I registered lol....figured a heavy rain t-shirt would look pretty sweet.

I'm excited for the sequel in two years. But seriously, ME2, Heavy Rain, FFXIII, Splinter Cell, Galaxy 2, etc. http://www.rating5.com/ 2010 is going to be one of the most kickass years ever.