Heavy Rain is the much anticipated and talked about interactive psychological thriller from Sony and developer Quantic Dream. The genre of psychological thriller is intriguing in any videogame, but even more so in this case because of the unprecedented atmosphere created and the branching storylines. Every decision you make impacts on the story progression and bear in mind that some decisions are easier than others. You’ll be second guessing yourself the whole time playing the ‘what-if’ game in your mind, and the only way to silence the doubts is to play it again.

The story goes a little something like this. A city on the East Coast of the United States is being terrorised by a serial killer who has come to be known as the Origami Killer as a result of his modus operandi of leaving an Origami figure on each of the bodies of his victims. The public’s panic escalates after a potential new victim disappears and the police appear no closer to identifying the killer. Time is against them as the victims are typically discovered drowned four days after they go missing.

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