More Heavy Rain details emerge

By Robert Purchese Published 12 March, 2008

PS3-exclusive from Fahrenheit dev.

Quantic Dream has opened up about its PS3 exclusive Heavy Rain.

According to a piece in Dutch magazine Chief (translated by Kotaku), the game will focus around four characters who have landed in extraordinary situations.

The main theme will be about a father's love for his son, which ties in with the "much more personal" approach studio boss David Cage is after.

You will also see and interpret the world through each character and their perceptions of what is right and wrong.

"I believe heavily in moral choices. I'm going to use them a lot," Cage promised. "They're not about being good or bad, but about finding the right balance."

Heavy Rain will be set in a city, but Cage is reluctant to make it free-roaming in a similar vein to something like Grand Theft Auto. The key is to control the story, apparently, although he wants "big sets" and heavily populated areas to play a part.

Visually it will be unique, we're told, and Cage expects we will be "surprised"; internal feedback from Sony is said to be "great".

There are no concrete details on gameplay, but he suggests Heavy Rain will expand upon the ideas used in previous project Fahrenheit.

Heavy Rain was shown originally at E3 2006 in a technical demo titled The Casting, which presented what was possible with virtual acting on the PS3.

David Cage said in interviews around the time that Heavy Rain would be a film noire-style thriller with mature themes, and no supernatural nonsense.

Dates of autumn 2008 were bandied around back then, but nothing has been heard since.

Sony was unavailable for comment at time of writing.

Fahrenheit was released in 2005 and earned hearty praise from Eurogamer for its involving storyline and forward-thinking. Kristan called it the most thoughtful piece of videogaming he had played in a long time.

Pop over to our Fahrenheit gamepage for more.

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About Robert Purchese

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Comments (39) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • zuljin #1 4 years ago

    What I want to know is whether this was the game that BBC journalist got so excited by...

  • lambtron #2 4 years ago

    Hmm.

    I really liked Nomad Soul.
    Fahrenheit was garbage.

    So could turn out either way it seems...

  • syphaa #3 4 years ago

    I enjoyed Fahrenheit to start with but it tailed off and got a bit silly towards the end. Still...this is one to look out for!

  • Aretak #4 4 years ago

    I hated Fahrenheit with a passion. Still have some interest in this though.

  • chudders #5 4 years ago

    If this also features heavy electricity I'm sold.

  • myiagros #6 4 years ago

    Farenheit still reains one of the best games of the last few years. Hopefully this will equally as good.

    Apparently the game the bbc journalist was getting excited by was Magna Carta: Tears Of Blood.

  • Xerx3s #7 4 years ago

    Sounds interesting.

  • Shabtai #8 4 years ago

    plz pc port plz pc port plz pc port.

  • Indy #9 4 years ago

    This might sound silly but Chief is actually a Belgian magazine, nothing Dutch about it! We still have our dignity you know!

    That aside, I loved every inch of Fahrenheit until it went psychedelicly wrong in the end. But you simply have to give the game credit for, like the Penumbra-series, trying to take the adventure game-experience further than any developer has done before. Having read the article in Chief, my guess is Heavy Rain will be a lot like Fahrenheit and I don't even think that's a bad thing. If the Aztecs are kept out, that is!

  • zuljin #10 4 years ago

    @myiagros
    Thats a PS2 game?

    http://uk .ps2.ign.com/objects/691/691292...

  • Les #11 4 years ago

    "I believe heavily in moral choices."

    I don't, in games at least. A moral choice without a moral consequence is empty.

  • menage #12 4 years ago

    Damn. Didn't know this was exclusive.

    well, if they don't want to sell a million extra copy's so be it.:p
    Edited by 1 at 12/03/08 @ 15:31

  • imamazed #13 4 years ago

    PS3 exclusive..... since when?

    WHY?!

    this NEEDS to be on 360/wii. PLEEEASE!

  • penhalion #14 4 years ago

    @syphaa

    I was about to type the same thing! Fahrenheit got absurd towards the end so I guess Kristan only played though the first quarter of it to form his opinion.

  • crozon #15 4 years ago

    a PC version please, otherwise i might need to get a PS3

  • ecureuil #16 4 years ago

    Looking forward to this one a fair bit, I hope it's good.

  • Waldo #17 4 years ago

    GET READY!!!

    Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy was pretty good for a while, but when it went off the rails around the halfway mark it went off them big time; I kept playing just to see how ridiculous the game would get, and in that department I got my money's worth.

    It was a fascinating train wreck of game with some good ideas and lots of really bad ones that most of the reviewers didn't care to mention.
    Edited by 1 at 12/03/08 @ 16:33

  • HarryB #18 4 years ago

    it's CHOCOLATE rain, not heavy.

  • _Price_ #19 4 years ago

    Gah! I can't afford a 360 AND a PS3. Decisions, decisions.

  • jonsaan #20 4 years ago

    Oh God, come back pacman, all is forgiven.

  • PearOfAnguish #21 4 years ago

    Is this a game about aliens invading earth inside drops of rain?

  • toy_brain #22 4 years ago

    This is one of those games that I refuse to even try to get excited about untill its reviewed (well) and out on the shelves for me to buy.
    Fahrenheight was decent, Nomad Soul was allright, I'll probably end up getting this, but I just cant muster up any excitement over it.
    Yet.

  • chris_ace #23 4 years ago

    Post deleted at 11:55:13 13-12-2011

  • Cannibal #24 4 years ago

    There seems to be a BIG fad of film noir games at the moment. Rockstar is devolping one as well I believe. What's the reason for this? Sin City? Something else?

  • Foxclose #25 4 years ago

    The demo of this looked great two years ago. Glad to hear that this project is still alive.

    PS3 exclusive!! YAY! Must have great graphics! =;)

  • J.C #26 4 years ago

    Why is this PS3 exclusive?

  • Freek #27 4 years ago

    It's Belgium people! We don't go around calling EG american either, now do we?

  • evild_edd #28 4 years ago

    I really enjoyed Fahrenheit (despite the flaws).

    With this (if ends up being any good, natch) and LBP on the horizon, PS3 is s-l-o-w-l-y getting some title that appeal. May end up buying one by the end of the year, or early 2009.

  • Steroyd #29 4 years ago

    Sony is publisher.

    Loved Fahrenheight till the middle, lordy lord wtf was with the Dragonball Z BS mid-way onwards!?

  • Ryze #30 4 years ago

    Less of the QTE gameplay and shitty button mashy stuff, and broken stealth!

    I thought that Fahrenheit was gonna be amazing until I got partway thru and the gameplay turned shite.

    Are these guys even game developers?!?

  • Agent_Llama #31 4 years ago

    Fahrenheit began brilliantly but slid rapidly downhill into silly QTE events and that HIDEOUS stealth section - probably the worst moment in videogaming I've personally experienced, it was such a let-down. And the sex scene was just awful. Boo.

  • Les #32 4 years ago

    "It's Belgium people! We don't go around calling EG american either, now do we?"

    No because that would be an insult... :p

  • schachmatt #33 4 years ago

    Fahrenheit lost it after the first two scenes, however the first one was done so well people didn't realise how much garbage the game as a whole was until halfway through - apart from a few others, who still don't.

    Still, Cage does the pr thing so well even I'm interested in Heavy Rain, even though my guts tell me it should rather end up as a straight-to-dvd film in the back of a store.

  • HermitArcader #34 4 years ago

    Post deleted at 09:17:39 22-12-2011

  • Mashum #35 4 years ago

    Fahrenheit was such a terrible let down - there's more dramatic subtlety and original characterisation in an episode of Home and Away.

    Good luck for Heavy Rain. I would like to see them live up to their promises but that David Cage doesn't half talk a load of rubbish.

  • 3william56 #36 4 years ago

    So much Farenhate?

    Well, consider me sold and excited by those detailed descriptions of the game. I'm going to pre order now.

    Or not. :/

  • space_ace #37 4 years ago

    moral choices are the new bloom?

  • trooper6 #38 4 years ago

    PS3 exclusive?

    Nooooooo! *shakes fist*

    Harumph! I want it for 360.

    Sigh.

  • Raziel #39 4 years ago

    No fear about the Fahrenheit ending people.

    They already admitted it was shit.

    The game was designed to be episodic, but then they suddenly had to throw on an ending quickly, making it seem pretty crappy and silly. I'm sure if they could have added more it would have made a lot more sense.