Heavy Rain: New Information from Chief

Dutch gaming magazine Chief, has some new information the PlayStation 3 exclusive title, Heavy Rain, from Quantic Dream.

Thanks to a Kotaku reader, we have some translations from the important parts of the article. Lets take a look.

On Locations
"I don't want to do a big free-roaming city like GTA, because the flow of the story will then be hard to control. Nevertheless, I do want to incorporate big sets, with a crowd, heavy populated areas like a mall and a subway are going to be in there. Of course, the gameplay has got to make use of that aspect too."

On Graphics
"People will be surprised. Internal (Sony's) feedback on graphics has been great. This is going to be a truly next-gen game. But still, we want to do something unique with the graphics, going beyond just making the most photorealistic world we can."

On Gameplay
"With the release of Fahrenheit, we gave the adventure genre a new grammar. We brought new ways into the genre, new words if you want to see it like that, a new vocabulaire. With Heavy Rain, where going to expand on that same grammar."

On Story
"Heavy Rain is about normal people that have landed in extraordinary situations. I wanted a much more personal story. The first thing that came to my mind, as a father of two little boys, was that the main theme should simply be a father's love for his son. This is not a game about saving the princess or the world. Its purely about a father's love."

"The main story will revolve around 4 different characters, and we're putting the spotlight on their perceptions. The question 'what is good and what is evil' is the key here, that will be just a matter of viewpoint...I believe heavily in moral choices, I'm going to use them A LOT. They're not about being good or bad, but about finding the right balance."

Sounding good, can't wait to hear more.

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Heavy Rain: Face Movement Video

Yeah, I really don't know when Quantic is going to show us some videos telling us what Heavy Rain is actually about, but as for now, let's enjoy this tech demo of their current progress. The face really looks great, but now we need to see the whole body.

Heavy Rain: Two New Screenshots

TVG recently interviewed David Cage, the head of Quantic Dream, and he brought along two new screenshots of the new PLAYSTATION 3 exclusive game he's directing, Heavy Rain. These screenshots are of the "real time virtual actors" that are being used for the characters the game. It's certainly a big improvement to the images released a while back. Hopefully, we will see more soon.

Just a question to the readers though: What the hell is the game about?

[Via TVG]

Quantic Getting Hollywood Actors for Heavy Rain

Quantic Dream told GamesIndustry today that is's trying to secure some of the biggest names in Hollywood for their upcoming PLAYSTATION 3 exclusive, Heavy Rain.

The developers beleive that with the new in-house motion capture studio, they can truly portray the actor's emotions and physical movements.

[Via Games Industry]

Quantic Dream Buys Mo-Cap Tech for PS3 Exclusive

Quantic Dream, developers of the unsure Heavy Rain, bought the latest motion capture technology from Vicon for its top secret PLAYSTATION 3 exclusive.

The studio has already been installed at Quantic Dream, with the developer hard at work on four month's worth of motion capture for the exclusive title.

"Our objective is to make this media a mainstream entertainment form with high creative expectations," commented Guillaume de Fondaumière, Co-CEO at Quantic Dream.

"To do so, we have invented our own format called 'interactive cinema' in which realistic, believable characters play a central role. To us, the only way to reach the level of quality we were targeting for the animation of our characters was to use Vicon motion capture," he said.

Sony announced the PLAYSTATION 3 project with Quantic Dream in July this year. The developer is also hiring out the new studio to other development teams.

"Demand has been immediate and we have actually already started to rent the system to high-profile video game and advertising clients. Our new studio is fully installed and is functioning almost every day either for complex full body or facial captures," added Fondaumière.

[Via GamesIndustry]

Surfer Girl: New Heavy Rain, Indiana Jones Details

Surfer Girl has updated us today with some new insider information, today's containing new details on Quantic Dream's Heavy Rain. Lets take a look:

1) Heavy Rain: The Origami Killer continues two things from Fahrenheit, the player plays as multiple characters and levels and areas players
have access are incredibly small, thus the game looks amazing and much effort is made to highlight even the finest details.
2) Tigon Games [Vin Diesel's "game production company"] has announced six games, but only three games have come to light, do the other games exist?
Beyond concept art and a prototype, no. Tigon only handles the creative side of things and outsources development to other studios. The Wheelman is, at earliest, nine months away, it has been pushed back from early next year for "expansion" (which I'm fairly certain is a codeword for "avoiding making a pretty version of DRIV3R).
3) Indiana Jones has "a brand new development team on board" and is "back on track." I now understand why someone who was working on the title was a bit nervous when I talked about it with them a few months back.
4) Rent-A-Hero No. 1 will be available on XBLA (on Microsoft's Xbox 1 game download service) next year.

There is something new, I never knew that Heavy Rain had a subtitle. It's also good to hear that Indiana Jones is back on track as well, perhaps we can see a release next year.

[Via Surfer Girl]