Quantic Dream's David Cage is a man like Peter Molyneux or Hideo Kojima that just polarises people through their extroverted artistic visions. However for Heavy Rain, he actually got something totally right. Well... more right than wrong anyway - the hilariously bad 'French guys doing American accents' voice acting will take plenty people out of it - but for the most part this murder-mystery tale centres brilliantly around four protagonists all caught up in the happenings of one Origami Killer. The great thing about the story is it really does feel like you're playing an interactive movie; a notion cemented by some monumental decisions that all play into a myriad of branching scenes and multiple endings. With Cage himself saying he'd prefer people "only played through once", it means whatever happens, whoever gets pinned for the murders and whoever gets away is all unique to your playthrough - and it's definitely worth putting up for some occasionally sporadic vocal inflections for that. "Jay-SON!"
