Samit Sarkar writes: "The Taxidermist" is the first in what will presumably be a series of a few additional short stories in the universe of Heavy Rain. At first glance, downloadable content for a game such as Heavy Rain seems problematic. Since the focus of the game is its ostensibly self-contained story, telling tales that exist outside the game's narrative -- yet within the Heavy Rain fiction -- could conflict with the characters and plot established by the game itself.
That said, I was willing to play through "The Taxidermist" because I enjoyed Heavy Rain enough that I wanted to find out more about its characters (in this case, you play as journalist Madison Paige), and because I just wanted more of Heavy Rain's adventure-game-like environment interaction.
[Editor's note: This review contains spoilers for "The Taxidermist," so don't read it if you want to go in completely blind. -Samit]
The 2/22 edition of this year's Finished Games Post. Latest completed games: Batman: Arkham Asylum, Plants vs Zombies, Heavy Rain Chronicles Episode 1: The Taxidermist
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See how the PlayStation Move has been incorporated into Quantic Dream's PS3 exclusive Heavy Rain in this new E3 2010 HD trailer.
Didn't people know about this?
It was announced ages ago which is why I waited to play Heavy Rain so long.
I want the best experience possible.
So will consumers have to re-buy Heavy Rain in a move edition or will it be patched on?
Either way that looked MUCH better than just the analog sticks
This type of game really benefits from motion sensing :)
Sony announced during the conference that Move functionality will be added to existing games through patches. It would be a bit silly to have to repurchase the game.
Good point, I happened to miss that point because I didn't get a chance to watch the whole thing >.<
Anyways thanks for clearing that up! The whole "move edition" at the end was rather misleading x)
Heavy Rain was meant to be played with MOVE
I was relieved they annouced it. It's the! MOVE game
Either the people in the video are lifeless or this is not really the way I was expecting to use MOVE for this game.
Seems like nothing the Sixaxis wasn't already doing. In fact, that's all that changes in the controller. It's still seems very much like a similar experience no matter how you play it.
Of course, this game was not made for MOVE but is just enabling it so you can't expect too much. But yeah, no difference it looks like from sixaxis style of playing this and with MOVE.
it's kinda hard to talior an already built up game to move.
I'm surprised they did it so well already!
I guess this gives me more reasons to pick up Move.. for Heavy Rain! (among the many many other amazing hardcore Move games)
Gameplayer.it: The taxidermist is the first DLC for Heavy Rain , mechanical rather than by the exclusive Sony features an innovative gameplay taste distinctly cinematic.
