Heavy Rain 2010

Is it still worth playing?

Quantic Dream's 2010 interactive drama for the PlayStation 3, in which four protagonists investigate the Origami Killer, a serial killer who uses extended rainfall to drown victims. The story centers on a father whose son is abducted. Each of the four can die because of what you do, and the story branches around those deaths. You control them from a third person view, through on screen, context sensitive button prompts, motion controls and quick time events, with R2 held to move forward and the stick setting direction. If it gets too hard, difficulty can be changed at any point, and a chapter select screen lets you replay scenes. Characters who can die, in a story that carries on without them, still give each decision weight today, and a second playthrough shows what changed.