for those who have played it: is this what heavy rain is actually like? i've heard lots of people say that heavy rain is DIFFERENT from indigo prophecy, but i'm really not seeing that. it basically looks like the same really shitty movie with arbitrary interactive bits where you need to hit button patterns to pluck the character's nosehairs or something equally meaningless.
i'm all for coming up with new ways to creatively use the interactivity of videogames, but this is the absolute worst way to go about doing it.
HOORAY FOR DAVID CAGE, FOUNDER OF THE INNOVATIVE ASS-WIPING SIMULATOR
Okay. so I haven't PLAYED this game, but I watched my roommate play it for 3 hours (which, as it turns out, is just as good as PLAYING it for 3 hours). The presentation is pretty good, the graphics are nice (far from perfect, but good) and the voice acting is generally garbage. Remember the cutscenes from Resident Evil 4 where you had to press A or mash B really fast, and depending on your timing it "changes" the cutscene? There are a LOT of "fight" scenes in Heavy Rain exactly like that, but instead of doing it 3 times and then going back to playing a game, you do it for 5 minutes straight because that IS the game. Meh.
The one part that DID look pretty fun was the "detective" part of it, where the guy has super-computer sun glasses on and you press X and he can see clues nearby and analyze them. Reading that sentence again, I realize it doesn't make much sense, so here's a video.
about 1:40 in.
Pretty cool if you ask me. But those parts are really short and actually don't lead up to much of anything, but it's a pretty good idea. And then, back to terrible Lethal Weapon 4 "action" cut scenes.