Matheus Trindade
A game filled with QTE, looking just like a movie, is it really
that cool?
“Heavy
rain” is an exclusive ps3 game released in the year 2010, published by Sony
computer entertainment, and developed by Quantic Dream. In this game, it’s
possible to choose every single action, from drinking water or a soda to trying
to talk to a police officer or a reporter. Furthermore, this game introduces a
new way of gaming making, its genre is hard to explain, but basically it’s a
thriller in the same way movies like “Seven” or “The bone collector”, with film noir elements.
The
plot of this game revolves around 4 main characters involved with the mystery
of the origami killer. He is a serial killer that targets kids on a specific
time of the year which has a severe period of rainfall, and in several parts of
the game you control each one and your choices decide how the plot develops.
The
characters are as follows: Ethan Mars is an architect that lost one of his two
sons in an accident near a crowded mall that gave him agoraphobia, but the must
unlucky fate of his is that the origami killer targeted his other son Shaun
Mars; now Ethan needs to complete the trials that the origami killer gave him through
a box to get his son back. A second character that you play with is Madison
Paige, a journalist that has chronic insomnia and nightmares, and who sometimes
checks in motels to try sleep better. In one of these hotels she found Ethan
Mars and recognized him from the news, but without telling him she helps him
sometimes, and conducts her own investigation about the origami killer. The
third character is Scott Shelby, a former police officer who now is a private
investigator hired by some families of the previously murdered children, and he
goes to every family trying to get any leads that get him to the origami
killer. Finally, the last character, Norman Jayden, an F.B.I. agent sent by the
bureau to help the local police force in the investigation of the origami
killer, uses an experimental device called the ARI (Added Reality Interface),
which allows him to investigate crime scenes and analyze evidence in an
efficient way. He struggles against his addiction to a fictional drug called
Triptocaine.
The gameplay
is how you realize how different this game is from conventional ones, since
almost everything in this game is done with Quick Time Events, that is, the
quick decisions you have to make during a cutscene on games like God of War. Therefore, the game with its
plot makes these cutscenes and Q.T.E. unique, since the tension and the drama
created exceeds the gamer’s expectation.
Furthermore, the decisions you make gives the direction of the plot, and
there is no game over even if you failed a Q.T.E., so the plot goes all the way
through the ending even if you are not willing to play it properly, which means
trying to save Shaun Mars and catching the origami killer.
The
soundtrack is nonetheless perfect for the emotions the game tries to pass to
the gamer, since it’s a dramatic game and the soundtrack is a colossal part of
the equation for a successful drama, so the soundtrack fulfills its part of
this equation. The orchestral soundtrack was scored by a Canadian composer
called Normand Corbeil and recorded at the Abbey Road Studios in London.
To
sum up, “Heavy Rain” is an excellent game, and if you have a PlayStation 3 it
is a must have and must play kind of game, since it is exclusive. And if the
trailers and the gameplay videos don’t attract you, give the game a chance
because when you play, and get immersed in the gaming you won’t stop playing
until you reach all the possible endings and choices you can in this game.
REFERENCES
Cage, David, Heavy rain, Game develop by Quantic Dream and published by Sony
Computer Entertainment. February 11th, 2010
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