Did you pick up this game? No? Go do it…I’ll wait.  I’m not kidding go pick up this game and then you can come back here and read this review.  I don’t care if you don’t have a PS3, pick that up on your way to get the game. Don’t make me turn this review around.

Let’s get the bad out of the way first, the movement controls.  Walking around in this game is a pain and the fixed cameras aren’t much of a help.  Luckily this isn’t a huge issue but more of a minor annoyance.  The second problem with the game is a plot hole, but if you don’t notice it, that’s alright. If you do, oh well.

Well, here is the review of Heavy Rain:  The story will take you across four perspectives of the main storyline, which is trying to solve the case of a serial killer named the Origami Killer.  Scott Shelby, the asthmatic private investigator, has been hired by the families that lost their children to the killer. These are some o the characters in the game: Norman Jayden, an FBI agent addict, filling in the role of “the man,” there’s also  Madison Pagie, the sexy photographer, and finally, Ethan Mars, the father of the latest kidnapped child, who’s trying to piece together the clues left by the killer to save his son.  All four point of views do an amazing job of guiding the player through the story.

The gameplay is a straight forward narrative.  We’ve all grown accustomed to having an open world for us to wander in and make our own story but as with all twists in suspense in this game, I’m more than happy to be taken by the hand through the story.  As for the controls, well it isn’t much more than a quick time event aside from walking.

It is hard to give a review of Heavy Rain without giving away the story but this is definitely a game to go pick up and enjoy whether you are watching or playing. It will keep you hooked until the very end, and then another play-through to see if all the clues were there to begin with.  This game gets a shining 5 out of 5.