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All-in-One Heavy Rain: Special Edition Arrives Next Week

$29.99 nabs you the full game, plus some bonus features.

I'm still pissed the game never explained what was happening during those weird blackouts.
I'm still pissed the game never explained what was happening during those weird blackouts.

If you missed out on Heavy Rain last year, Sony’s prepped a special edition that’s arriving next week, complete with Move support, the one and only episodic add-on (future installments were ditched in favor of adding Move), and some other bonus features to round things out.

The whole package will only set you back $29.99.

Say what you will about what Heavy Rain did wrong--and it did plenty wrong--but I’m still encouraged to see designers like David Cage trying to do something different. Games can’t get it right until they get it wrong, and maybe Cage isn’t the guy to make that kind of storytelling click, but it felt like a step in the right direction. I’ll play whatever he does next.

DarkTitanivon Nov. 3, 2011 at 11:57 a.m.

nice

probablytunaon Nov. 3, 2011 at 11:58 a.m.

Was gonna get a Move to try it out on this game... Then I couldn't be bothered and just completed the game with the standard controller.

popmasterruleron Nov. 3, 2011 at noon
Can't they make more episodic add-ons now that they've integrated Move into Heavy Rain?What are the other bonus features?
TripMasterMunkyon Nov. 3, 2011 at 12:04 p.m.

Great game.

CyleMooreon Nov. 3, 2011 at 12:05 p.m.

Amazing game

FlemmingMon Nov. 3, 2011 at 12:06 p.m.

I bet the black outs were suppose to get explained, in one of the now canned episodes....

Winterneton Nov. 3, 2011 at 12:07 p.m.

Why don't take the opportunity and release it on the PC? I would buy that. Only thing this does for me is make me go back and play Indigo Prophecy again.

JimmyPancakeson Nov. 3, 2011 at 12:07 p.m.

Still a f*cking awful game.

Stoneysilenceon Nov. 3, 2011 at 12:08 p.m.

Just rented this (older version) via Blockbuster. Should be arriving today or tomorrow in the mail.

thetenthdoctoron Nov. 3, 2011 at 12:12 p.m.
Thi game was all hat and no cattle. Beautiful to look at and intriguing for what it tried to do, but otherwise awkward to play and had plot holes and leaps of logic big enough to drive a truck through. $29.99 is a decent price for it- the original $60 made me feel ripped off.
RobertOrrion Nov. 3, 2011 at 12:12 p.m.

This has been out in Europe for over a year now, as Heavy Rain: Move Edition.

msavo is online on Nov. 3, 2011 at 12:12 p.m.
Even though I bought the game a month ago I'm not peeved at all by this edition. Amazing experience.
cikameon Nov. 3, 2011 at 12:13 p.m.

For xbo... no... nevermind.

Anwaron Nov. 3, 2011 at 12:16 p.m.

@patrickklepek said:

in the game

yeah it landed on the cutting room floor, it was supposed to be fucking crazy like the last game they made(Indigo Prophecy)

NickLotton Nov. 3, 2011 at 12:20 p.m.

David Cage explained what happened in those blackouts and why Ethan woke up with origami in his hand. It wasn't a very good explanation but it was supposed to be explored in Ethan's DLC which never materialized.

Basically the gist is that Scott Shelby was there the day the Ethan's son died in a car accident and from that day onward had a psychic link with him as a result of their trauma. So in Ethan's blackouts he was experiencing Shelby's actions. Like I said, wasn't a good explanation.
Rirseon Nov. 3, 2011 at 12:20 p.m.

I would hope the "director cut" would remove all of Madison's scenes from the game.

CaLeon Nov. 3, 2011 at 12:20 p.m.
After having diarrhoea today I realised that it's important to be wrong sometimes because you learn from it and adjust your attitude towards things differently in the future.
Sayishereon Nov. 3, 2011 at 12:24 p.m.

That first dlc was actually better than the whole game i felt :P. Bad decision to dump the dlc in favour of the move support..VERY bad.

SlightConfuseon Nov. 3, 2011 at 12:24 p.m.

never played it but now i will

Taku128on Nov. 3, 2011 at 12:33 p.m.
Experience the stupidity all over again

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