

Meanwhile, private investigator Scott Shelby ( Sam Douglas) meets the families of the Origami Killer's victims, collecting the letters and other items they received when their loved ones were abducted. Unconvinced, Jayden continues to investigate other leads. After Ethan's psychiatrist, Conrad Dupre, reveals that his patient has a history of blackouts, Blake and his superiors put out a warrant for his arrest. Jayden and his partner Lieutenant Carter Blake investigate suspects, but nothing pans out until Grace arrives at the station, fearing that her former husband is involved in Shaun's disappearance. She decides to conduct her own investigation into the Origami Killer. Ethan meets Madison Paige ( Jacqui Ainsley/ Judi Beecher), a journalist who sometimes uses the motel to deal with her insomnia. The tests include driving against traffic at speed on the highway, crawling through broken glass and active electrical pylons, cutting off one of his fingers, murdering drug dealer Brad Silver, and drinking poison on camera. Every time he completes one, he will receive a piece of the address where Shaun is held. The killer calls him and explains that each figure contains instructions on completing tests that will determine how much Ethan loves his son. He receives a letter from the killer, which leads to a shoebox containing a mobile phone, a handgun, and five origami figures. īesieged by reporters, Ethan checks into a motel. He estimates that Shaun has only three days to live based on weather patterns. Norman Jayden ( Leon Ockenden), an FBI profiler struggling with addiction to a drug called Triptocaine, investigates the death of another Origami victim and concludes that he died the same day as a violent rainstorm, which flooded the cell where he was kept.
#Heavy rain gameplay serial#
When he wakes up, he discovers that Shaun has been kidnapped by the "Origami Killer," a serial killer whose modus operandi consists of abducting young boys during the fall season, drowning them in rainwater, and leaving an orchid on their chests and an origami figure nearby. Two years later, Ethan blacks out at the park with his other son Shaun. After he wakes from the coma, Ethan, blaming himself for Jason's death, divorces his wife Grace and moves into a small suburban house while experiencing mental trauma and blackouts. 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. Heavy Rain was a commercial success, selling 5.3 million units by January 2018.īutton-prompts are used to interact with the environment.

It is considered one of the greatest video games ever made, receiving praise for its emotional impact, visuals, writing, controls, and music, though some critics faulted the controls, voice acting, and plot inconsistencies.
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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.
#Heavy rain gameplay series#
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 action-adventure video game developed by Quantic Dream and published by Sony Computer Entertainment.
