Heavy Rain

 PlayStation 4
User Score
8.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 1340 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 985 out of 1340
  2. Mixed: 241 out of 1340
  3. Negative: 114 out of 1340

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  1. Jomarumu
    Jul 7, 2018
    4
    Good history, awesome graphics, could be one of the best games ever, but it have the worst controls ever. It is really annoying, they are pretty bad for a game like this.

    When motion commands are used seems like you are flipping a coin, you do whatever the game wants, but sometimes the game says that you didn't, it is totally unresponsive.

    The Taxidermist DLC was excluded from the game.
  2. h8terofHR
    Dec 26, 2017
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game's whole set up literally makes no sense. In the beginning, the son gets hit by a car. The dad, however, jumps out in front of the car. He protects his son, and he gets hit by the car. The car does NOT touch his son, but yet his son still dies. this did not make any sense to me because the dad is the one who actually gets hit by the car while the son does not. If anything, the dad should've died.… Expand
  3. DogeWowIsBack
    Mar 11, 2019
    0
    Mediocore story that barely makes any sense on it's own, awful motion controlls and overall bland presentation of the entire game. Modern gaming guys! You can just make weird movie with quick time events and call that a day!
  4. fallouts
    Mar 8, 2016
    0
    Boring quick time game play all the way through...no incentive to go back. What has gaming come to? This is just a demonstration of the sad state it's in. David Cage should just make a movie and retire.
  5. al1en
    Mar 6, 2016
    0
    Quicktime crap, the gameplay is beyond boring. story as well, graphics are ok but who cares when its such a drag to play through this sorry excuse of a game. wouldnt recommend to anyone. worst of all you cant even run, have to walk slooowly at all times
  6. allwititnowsuck
    Feb 21, 2018
    0
    allwititnow quit being such a whinny cry baby about other people's opinions you little bigotish tw*t
    That's not even really a game,it's a movie where you can sometimes press buttom and it doesn't really affects your playthrough in any way.David Cage has no idea what video game is he should be movie director instead.
  7. Tritonio
    Jan 10, 2021
    0
    I played up until the point where you are looking for the luggage locker and I stopped playing. I can't bare this anymore. Insanely boring slow and pointless 90% of the time. You could easily compress this game to one tenth the time it took to reach this point. The controls suck. The camera sucks. I had a tiny bit of fun in one or two scenes in the game till this point. I'll go playI played up until the point where you are looking for the luggage locker and I stopped playing. I can't bare this anymore. Insanely boring slow and pointless 90% of the time. You could easily compress this game to one tenth the time it took to reach this point. The controls suck. The camera sucks. I had a tiny bit of fun in one or two scenes in the game till this point. I'll go play something else. I don't even care enough to read the rest of the story to be honest.

    Very strange. Beyond two souls if a favorite of mine but this I can't even bare to continue.

    PS: Stratch that, I just read the rest of the story on wikipedia. Wow that's cheesy. I'm glad I dropped it now. Why the hell is this game considered good?    … Expand
  8. theholotrope
    Feb 9, 2020
    2
    I made an account just to write this review and to warn others of how profoundly **** this game is. I would be thorough but I've already wasted enough hours of my life playing this. It baffles me how people have uttered the word "masterpiece" in relation to this title. It's just a movie where you press buttons sometimes. Many time for no real reason other than to stop you from fallingI made an account just to write this review and to warn others of how profoundly **** this game is. I would be thorough but I've already wasted enough hours of my life playing this. It baffles me how people have uttered the word "masterpiece" in relation to this title. It's just a movie where you press buttons sometimes. Many time for no real reason other than to stop you from falling asleep. The plot is as cliched as it gets. The killer's identity is unpredictable but only because it's completely implausible and makes zero sense. There is no reward in finishing this except the release from an unfinished game in my library. Do not spend your precious money and time. Please look up some gameplay on youtube before attempting to buy this.… Expand
  9. livelovelaugh22
    Mar 24, 2020
    2
    I will review this pile OF ABSOLUTE BULLSH-
    I guess I need to calm down. Let's start.
    The game has some of the worst controls of the decade. It took me 12 minutes to do something that should take 3 minutes if it had proper controls. The game froze on me several times. There are situations that make zero sense. Your dumb kid Jason was about to get run over by a car, but you, Ethan,    I will review this pile OF ABSOLUTE BULLSH-
    I guess I need to calm down. Let's start.
    The game has some of the worst controls of the decade. It took me 12 minutes to do something that should take 3 minutes if it had proper controls. The game froze on me several times.
    There are situations that make zero sense. Your dumb kid Jason was about to get run over by a car, but you, Ethan, jumped in front of the car before the car hit Jason, and Jason died and Ethan left without a scratch. The voice acting was bad, but not that bad, and the music was relaxing, as well as the rain drops. The story sucked balls, and so did the 17 endings, where most of them weren't even that different. The 'remastered' graphics were ****
    Overall, a tedious grinding and unsatisfying game I only played so I could be allowed to review it.    … Expand
  10. btwcore
    Jul 24, 2020
    0
    bad game tells boring story with ridiculous gameplay(take a shower idk). I heard a lot from consol gamers that Heavy Rain is masterpiece. pog. podpivasniky
  11. tk_248
    May 15, 2020
    4
    Уебанское управление, долбоеский сюжет. Распиаренная хуита, короче.
  12. nagatt
    Jul 29, 2020
    0
    I played Heavy Rain in 2020 and my first impression was: terrible. Because the game controls and camera are terrible. But the game was released in 2010, it is important to consider when reviewing the game. After few chapters you get used to the controls. The story is very captivating and you just cannot stop playing Heavy Rain.

    Quite sad in the beginning and very thrilling in the rest,    I played Heavy Rain in 2020 and my first impression was: terrible. Because the game controls and camera are terrible. But the game was released in 2010, it is important to consider when reviewing the game. After few chapters you get used to the controls. The story is very captivating and you just cannot stop playing Heavy Rain.

    Quite sad in the beginning and very thrilling in the rest, the game is absolutely awesome.    … Expand
  13. Blloder
    Jun 18, 2021
    0
    This game is not really epic at all, because graphic design and the story is kinda strange.
  14. miczat
    May 14, 2023
    4
    Mark Twain, once golf a good walk spoiled. The same can be said for Heavy Rain. An OK story turned into a slow stumble of quick-time events. Also features unimpressive voice acting and a non-intuitive set of controls.
  15. Guizin
    Feb 8, 2020
    3
    This was one of the worsts experiences i've EVER had playing games. The game has such a boring and no-action story, with a weird gameplay (I know it's a "interactive film", even because I played Detroit: Become Human and i LOVED it) and grafics sucks (considering it's a remastered). Here we can see how Quantic Dreams' games have evoluted, every little detail of Detroit is better than this.
  16. DerGluffy
    Oct 22, 2019
    4
    Langweilige Story lieblos gestalltet und es gibt viel bessere Storyspiele meiner Meinung nach
  17. alexfallahi
    Dec 1, 2019
    3
    is the worst baby sitter simulator of all times, poor controls and maximum glitch as possible.
  18. RatedRevolver
    Jun 29, 2022
    0
    mbitious but limited game trying to be a movie and ending up as a joke. The cascade of choices is an illusion for most of the game, pushing the protagonists onwards on rails to move the plot forward. It's a rip off of Se7en just with lots of plot holes.
  19. Elite_Soldier
    Nov 21, 2020
    4
    I'm just writing at least 150 characters because I wanted to save this review in a more convenient way to look back at scores that I had given stuff as a user
  20. R3PL1CANT
    Sep 8, 2020
    4
    Plot hole simulator. Boring.
    P.S:SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUN!!!!!!!!
  21. Thomoen
    May 19, 2021
    1
    SHAAAAAAUUUUN!!!

    When it comes to interactive narrative experiences, Quantic Dream is hold in high regard. I sadly have to say I think the reason for this is because they are one of the few developers that is actually committed to telling stories without traditional gameplay, not because of David Cage's writing talent. The neo-noir world with a dash of sci-fi is pretty interesting,    SHAAAAAAUUUUN!!!

    When it comes to interactive narrative experiences, Quantic Dream is hold in high regard. I sadly have to say I think the reason for this is because they are one of the few developers that is actually committed to telling stories without traditional gameplay, not because of David Cage's writing talent.

    The neo-noir world with a dash of sci-fi is pretty interesting, but it is the horrible writing, acting and very annoying attempts to make the story more interactive that really bring the experience down to an absolute low most of the time.
    There are so many god awful shallow characters here that are easily B-movie Netflix quality, but yet the game takes itself super seriously so you just sit there as an observer while the head of the screenwriter disappears in his own ass.

    There is a moment when you need to hold a baby as a character and really carefully move the controller left and right to make it fall asleep which makes you reattempt it after you fail. You can't actually progress the story if you didn't make the baby fall asleep so it really isn't a narrative choice but just a really really dumb chore you have to finish. Why this just wasn't a cutscene is beyond me.

    I failed to rock the baby around twenty times and kind of wanted it to smash it and my controller to the wall because I was so irritated at that point, not only because the controls are horrible but also because the only reason I wanted to finish that task was to get to more toe-curling bad writing and cringy acting performances.

    The only thing the story has is the twist at the end, but even that I disliked because it is just set up with cheap manipulative writing tactics.

    3/10 because of the world and visuals, the rest is really bad in my humble (personal) opinion.    … Expand
  22. CnPx98
    Apr 16, 2023
    4
    The story is good but the controls make it almost unplayable. The camera angles constant mess up and then you'll need to change it every time you change area. And for some unknown reason you need to hold R2 to walk in a game that requires constant walking. But it gets worse. If you release the stick it continues moving so it's not like you can just hold the button at all times. I can'tThe story is good but the controls make it almost unplayable. The camera angles constant mess up and then you'll need to change it every time you change area. And for some unknown reason you need to hold R2 to walk in a game that requires constant walking. But it gets worse. If you release the stick it continues moving so it's not like you can just hold the button at all times. I can't believe someone thought this was a good idea. People thought it was a dumb idea before so why didn't they change it on PS4?… Expand
  23. Gaymes
    Jan 6, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This is the drag me to hell of video games. no that is not a compliment. how this is 78 on here with 813 positive reviews makes no sense to me, did i play a different game or something? Ethan Mars is almost as annoying as his va's acting, the storyline is so mediocre to how people hype it up to be and the twist isn't even that great. For shame.… Expand
  24. Robephiles
    Jul 27, 2022
    1
    When this game first came out, it seemed like something I would love. I love film noir and mysteries, and a game that lets you play through a mystery with branching choices is interesting. Then I played this trainwreck of a game. The story doesn't make a lick of sense, the gameplay is awful, and there is so little attention to detail that the age of a major character is given as threeWhen this game first came out, it seemed like something I would love. I love film noir and mysteries, and a game that lets you play through a mystery with branching choices is interesting. Then I played this trainwreck of a game. The story doesn't make a lick of sense, the gameplay is awful, and there is so little attention to detail that the age of a major character is given as three different ages at three different times.

    The only thing I can say is that this game is better than Beyond Two Souls, which just means there is a "so bad its good" fun to be had with it.    … Expand
  25. TheGrandWizard
    May 21, 2023
    4
    When I first started the game, I got this flickering glitch that from where I read online has been plaguing the game for at least several years without being patched. First sign that the devs obviously don’t give a **** about the game anymore. Glitches abound, some of the worse voice acting I’ve ever seen, and some endings that have zero logic to them. Heavy Rain is more of a Heavy Pain inWhen I first started the game, I got this flickering glitch that from where I read online has been plaguing the game for at least several years without being patched. First sign that the devs obviously don’t give a **** about the game anymore. Glitches abound, some of the worse voice acting I’ve ever seen, and some endings that have zero logic to them. Heavy Rain is more of a Heavy Pain in my ass.… Expand

Awards & Rankings

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#92 Best PS4 Game of 2016
22
#22 Most Discussed PS4 Game of 2016
86
#86 Most Shared PS4 Game of 2016

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Metascore
78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 30 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 30
  3. Negative: 0 out of 30
  1. Playstation Official Magazine Australia
    May 18, 2016
    80
    This remaster retains and showcases Heavy Rain’s best assets (we’re so sorry). Some wobbles, however, have also made the jump to PS4. [June 2016, p76]
  2. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    May 8, 2016
    80
    As remasters go, it's not a total washout - but it's not the stunning revamp it could have been. As a PS3 classic now available on PS4, however? Essential. [May 2016, p.87]
  3. GameOver.gr
    Apr 19, 2016
    85
    It doesn’t offer anything new for anyone who already played the original. On the other hand, the graphics are significantly overhauled, making this remastered version a safe choice for anyone who didn’t had the chance to experience this excellent interactive drama.
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