
#Heavy rain video game series#
While a series of downloadable side-story chapters (called The Heavy Rain Chronicles) was planned, only one chapter was released ("The Taxidermist", showing Madison attempting to investigate the Origami Killer years prior). The game later received support for the PlayStation Move on September 22, 2010, adding optional motion controls.
#Heavy rain video game serial#
The game's story, set in modern day, centers around the investigation of a mysterious serial killer who abducts and murders children (leaving an origami crane in the palm of their hand, becoming known as the "Origami Killer"). Along with third-person exploration of their character's surroundings, players converse with timed dialogue trees and use specific button/joystick/ tilt prompts for actions (including quick time events for higher-intensity sequences). Furthermore, all the button prompts shown are PlayStation – so Project M's most likely coming to PS5.Heavy Rain is a thriller adventure game developed by Quantic Dream and published by Sony for the PlayStation 3 in Japan (on February 18, 2010), North America (on February 23, 2010), and Europe (on February 24, 2010).Ī spiritual successor to the studio's earlier game Indigo Prophecy, Heavy Rain puts players in the role of four separate protagonists as their stories, which can have numerous branching paths and multiple endings, intertwine into one overall narrative (with the possibility of each of them dying, which continue the story).

In the video, we can see what probably will be our main character taking on a few bad guys as he seeks revenge against his murdered lover. The only aspect we can be certain about is that Heavy Rain-esque quicktime events will be featured throughout the story. As we already mentioned, the trailer mainly showed off these fantastic graphics. Let's move on to the gameplay of Project M, shall we? To be honest, we can't say too much about it just yet. If the game really looks like in the trailer once it is released for consoles, then hats off – the amount of effort put in was definitely worth it. Looking at the footage shown, it's not really surprising that the game was developed in Unreal Engine 5 and the studio focuses on ultra realistic graphics.Īnother blog post in addition to the trailer tells us that the developers used motion capture, special effects and 3D scanning, among other things.
