Heavy Rain

I just got this. And... Truly guys? My first thought after a few hours with this game is that this is a new generation of the Adventure Game genre. It's a compelling, single-player story-driven game. The only difference from the olden days is that point-and-click has been changed to button-correspondance, stick-wiggling and quick-time events.

And you know what? It works.

For those of you who remember Fahrenheit (or Indigo Prophecy in the States), this game is made by the same company, and written and directed by the same guy. There's no paranmormal twist this time around though, it's just pure noir.

I find myself realizing that the gameplay itself isn't really all that difficult, it's not run-and-gun or mind-wrackingly hard puzzles or even get-this-weird-key-and-use-it-on-the-locked-door-on-the-other-side-of-the-map. What it is though, is well-paced, well-thought out and well-written storytelling!

If you own a PS3 and you're a regular on this board - you owe yourself to try this game out.

Storywise, it's got everything I love about the noir-genre. I sincerely do not wish to spoil this for anyone - suffice it to say that it's a really, really good story. If you love a dark, gritty story you will like this game.

In fact I'm gonna go ahead and pay this game the greatest compliment I can - if anybody besides our beloved boys were to make a new Tex-game - I would want it to be Quantic Dreams.

There, I said it.

-Fred