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KvP:
Heavy Rain. It's coming out for the PS3 in the very near future (this week I think?) and if it weren't for the fact that I know literally no one with a PS3, I'd play it. Do any of y'all have PS3's? Anybody gonna play it?

Here's a 6 minute spoiler-y sequence featuring very NSFW nudity, and some scares (some of which come a bit cheap). Basically it looks like Indigo Prophecy + A facelift - all the crazy shit (one hopes). A shame I won't be able to play it.

Storm Rider:
I just wish... that it was more interactive? I get that the story is dynamic based on how much you fuck up the QTEs, but they're still QTEs... for the whole game. On top of that, David Cage sounds like the smuggest fucking douche on the planet from all the interviews I've read. I guess I'm glad that somebody is trying to push the limits of believable human interaction in games, I just have no real interest in Heavy Rain as a video game.

Tom:
This adds to the still very small list of why one should own a PS3. Seriously, FF XIII and Uncharted?

Ikrik:
There is much, much more than a small list of why you should own a PS3.  But seriously, that's a whole other argument.

They released a game that allows you to unlock a demo for this, I'd link it but just go to like Kotaku or Destructoid and they'll give you the answers as well.  I spent a whole day trying to get to the site because the thing was down the whole time.  People just kept swarming the site.  After sleeping I got it, got myself a European PSN and downloaded the demo.

Holy. Fucking. Shit.  "Oh, it's just a bunch of Quick Time Events, nothing special."  No.  No.  It is much better than that.  They basically give you a tutorial, an interview with a woman followed by a fight scene and an investigation.  The tutorial is what you expect.  But it's the interview and fight that blew me away.  Have you ever had a fight scene in a game that blew you away? That made you absolutely terrified about the outcome?  My adrenalin was pumping so hard during this fight.  It was visceral and brutal and the "quick-time events" is so much more involved than simply smashing Square, or a combination of Square and Triangle. 

The investigation was set in this area and you put on these sort of goggles that help you identify things.  You go straight up to a dead body and talk to the guy in charge for a while, he doesn't really like you.  And then you investigate.  There are about 10-13 things that you can investigate and I think 3 or 4 of them are useless to you, police contaminating the crime scene, or something unrelated.  But then there are some really cool things. 

Storm Rider, do you have a PS3?  Cause you should really then get a hold of this demo because it completely changed how I felt about it, all my fears were just completely wiped out from playing it.

Storm Rider:
I don't. I plan to buy one eventually, but I'm unemployed right now and I can't really afford to buy a whole new platform at the moment.

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