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Heavy Rain release date revealed

Quantic Dream-developed title coming end of February, CVG discovers
Sony's much-anticipated PS3 adventure Heavy Rain will be released on February 26th in the UK, CVG can reveal.

Watertight retail sources have today informed us (off the record, naturally) that Sony has officially penned in the date for the movie-like release.

"That's the date we've got and as far as we're concerned they've committed to it," one UK High Street bigwig told CVG.

Sony told CVG that it could not comment on the news.

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Good, the mystery surrounding how this Game will actually play out will be revealed very soon then.

Heavy Rain, Alan Wake and Mass Effect 2 are 3 of my top titles coming this year, the fact that they are all mature, story driven Games is just a coincidence, eh?

Are you listening Devs? The Gamers who grew up on the C64, NES's and Atari's are now grown up mature (well sometimes Wink ) Gamers. I hope this Game and the others mentioned could be a shift in the type of Games we can expect in the future.
StonecoldMC on 6 Jan '10
Can't wait Smile

Excellent year for PS3 - GT5, GoW3, JRPGs from Japan, ICO 2, etc.

Only one is missing is Demon's Souls. Come on Sony release it to here!
wildhook2 on 6 Jan '10
Hmmm... Are they doing this for sales,or are they doing this to cause a fight between this and GOW III, which is due to be out in march?
BIGAL-1992 on 6 Jan '10
That high street retailer by any chance HMV? who Sony just announced HMV stores have the Collectors Edition as exclusive to them.

Sad tho too much coming out and so little money!

Bayonetta, Heavy Rain, FFXIII, GoW3, Dantes Inferno, Bioshock 2 *head explodes*
Del-007 on 6 Jan '10
so far

360 has Halo, Dante, Bayonetta, and possibly gears 3...

PS3 has GoW III & heavy rain

Wii has zelda

DS has Pokemon

PC has nothing yt....
shiwayb on 6 Jan '10
I thought they said 2011 for this game. I find it amazing how quick this is being released when Alan Wake has taken around 5 years
jadehill2001 on 6 Jan '10
Damn. I'm pretty sure Splinter Cell comes out then as well, now I have to decide which to get day one...

Splinter Cell just edges it at the moment, as I've been more impressed by what I've seen and heard. I'll wait for the reviews before I make my final choice though.
Black Mantis on 6 Jan '10
so far

360 has Halo, Dante, Bayonetta, and possibly gears 3...

PS3 has GoW III & heavy rain

Wii has zelda

DS has Pokemon

PC has nothing yt....

Cliffy said there won't be Gears 3 until next Xbox.

Bayonetta isn't Xbox 360 exclusive.
wildhook2 on 6 Jan '10
Not long till we find out whether it is tripe after all!
Wozzakl on 6 Jan '10
so far

360 has Halo, Dante, Bayonetta, and possibly gears 3...

PS3 has GoW III & heavy rain

Wii has zelda

DS has Pokemon

PC has nothing yt....

Cliffy said there won't be Gears 3 until next Xbox.

Bayonetta isn't Xbox 360 exclusive.

cliffy nvr said that. it was mre the fct a new gears with new UE 4 nxt xbx.

and i knw, i buy all multi plat gmes on xbx
shiwayb on 6 Jan '10
Good, the mystery surrounding how this Game will actually play out will be revealed very soon then.

Heavy Rain, Alan Wake and Mass Effect 2 are 3 of my top titles coming this year, the fact that they are all mature, story driven Games is just a coincidence, eh?

Are you listening Devs? The Gamers who grew up on the C64, NES's and Atari's are now grown up mature (well sometimes Wink ) Gamers. I hope this Game and the others mentioned could be a shift in the type of Games we can expect in the future.

Speak for yourself Mr. Cold. I'm actually very immature thank you very much. I only want this for the shower drying off scene. Laughing
flash501 on 6 Jan '10
you can get demons soul from coolshop.co.uk 1st class for £48
nitefighter on 6 Jan '10
so far

360 has Halo, Dante, Bayonetta, and possibly gears 3...

PS3 has GoW III & heavy rain

Wii has zelda

DS has Pokemon

PC has nothing yt....

Cliffy said there won't be Gears 3 until next Xbox.

Bayonetta isn't Xbox 360 exclusive.

cliffy nvr said that. it was mre the fct a new gears with new UE 4 nxt xbx.

and i knw, i buy all multi plat gmes on xbx

He did. Next Xbox yes but not Xbox 360.
wildhook2 on 6 Jan '10
As long as that shower scene doesn't involve the man faced, dead eyed lady from the videos then all will be well.
MrPirtniw on 6 Jan '10
I had a pretty good idea that it would be released around that time.

All we can do now is sit back and wait for the reviews to come in, which can't be too far off now.

Come to think of it, I'm surprised that we haven't seen any Mass Effect 2 reviews yet as that comes out the end of this month. Saying that, I feel more confident that ME2 will fare very well with reviews as we know what to expect, really.

How Heavy Rain will be received by the critics is anybody's guess.

Fingers crossed that things are positive.
Mark240473 on 6 Jan '10
As long as that shower scene doesn't involve the man faced, dead eyed lady from the videos then all will be well.

I thought that you were only interested in helmets?
Mark240473 on 6 Jan '10
I am slowly getting excited for Heavy Rain now after being initially indifferent to it. Personally I'm hoping it is written more like a book than a film. So it's narrative is slower but extremely tense like The Wire.

I'm also really looking forward to Alan Wake which I expect to be fairly action packed.

This is going to be one hell of a first quarter for games. However I think that because so many Publishers pushed the release dates back to dodge MW2 they're now releasing their title at an even more competitive time.
chunkyboymania on 6 Jan '10
so far

360 has Halo, Dante, Bayonetta, and possibly gears 3...

PS3 has GoW III & heavy rain

Wii has zelda

DS has Pokemon

PC has nothing yt....

Cliffy said there won't be Gears 3 until next Xbox.

Bayonetta isn't Xbox 360 exclusive.

cliffy nvr said that. it was mre the fct a new gears with new UE 4 nxt xbx.

and i knw, i buy all multi plat gmes on xbx

He did. Next Xbox yes but not Xbox 360.

Wildhook, you are right and wrong! There was an update on that story.

http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/articles/102/1028443p1.html
Black Mantis on 6 Jan '10
so far

360 has Halo, Dante, Bayonetta, and possibly gears 3...

PS3 has GoW III & heavy rain

Wii has zelda

DS has Pokemon

PC has nothing yt....

Cliffy said there won't be Gears 3 until next Xbox.

Bayonetta isn't Xbox 360 exclusive.

cliffy nvr said that. it was mre the fct a new gears with new UE 4 nxt xbx.

and i knw, i buy all multi plat gmes on xbx

He did. Next Xbox yes but not Xbox 360.

Wildhook, you are right and wrong! There was an update on that story.

http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/articles/102/1028443p1.html

Exactly wat i said this gen gears 3 = UE3.

Nxt gen Gears = UE4....
shiwayb on 6 Jan '10
As long as that shower scene doesn't involve the man faced, dead eyed lady from the videos then all will be well.

I thought that you were only interested in helmets?

Laughing
MrPirtniw on 6 Jan '10
Talking of the Unreal Engine did you here you can download the SDK for free. CVG should really have done an article on it because it's massive news for amateur developers.
chunkyboymania on 6 Jan '10
Talking of the Unreal Engine did you here you can download the SDK for free. CVG should really have done an article on it because it's massive news for amateur developers.

I'm pretty sure they did already.
Black Mantis on 6 Jan '10
glad it's released 2 weeks after bioshock 2. can have some quality time with both, then the godly GOW3 comes in after the dust has settled ;D
ahhh good times.
Sinthetic on 6 Jan '10
My wallets gonna take a pounding.
Marlonjb on 6 Jan '10
This looks dull, slow and boring.
ranaraptor on 6 Jan '10
This looks dull, slow and boring.

this is something girls have told me you alot init son. sucks.
Sinthetic on 6 Jan '10
Day one purchase for me, looks like an amazing game. This and GOW3 are the 2 games I'm definitely getting this quarter. If only I had something to hold me over until then - don't like the look of MAG, bayonetta or kratos' inferno/dante of war
Tinseltopia on 6 Jan '10
Who cares what the critics say? I'm pretty sure these guys don't actually play the games themselves, they all probably just watch someone play it, not the same as movie critics. This game will get the once over from me to see if it's worth it. Looks interesting, but who knows how it plays out. Time will tell all.
SavageEvil on 6 Jan '10
Wooh finally a set date, can't wait! Very Happy (though I'll be happier once it's officialy confirmed).

Sony just announced HMV stores have the Collectors Edition as exclusive to them.

There's going to be a collector's edition?! Sweet as Very Happy At least I know where I'm getting my copy from then Wink
dark_gamer on 7 Jan '10
so far

360 has Halo, Dante, Bayonetta, and possibly gears 3...

PS3 has GoW III & heavy rain

Wii has zelda

DS has Pokemon

PC has nothing yt....

What you on about? PC has nothing? You heard of a lil game called StarCraft 2? And what about the much anticipated expansion pack for the most popular mmo? Also both Dante and Bayonetta are multi-platform games and the fact that you buy all multi-platform games on the Xbox 360 doesn't mean s**t.

Besides as someone else mentioned Gears of War 3 won't be out until Unreal Engine 4 which will probably make it a launch title for the next xbox.
tossetaz on 7 Jan '10
PC
Starcraft II - terran campain
Diablo III - maybe
Deus Ex 3

Wii
Metroid
Fragile
Crystal bearers
silent hill remake
no more heroes 2.

PS3
God of War 3
White Knight Chronicles
Heavy Rain
Gran Turismo

360
Halo
Alan Wake
Fable 3
WHERESMYMONKEY on 7 Jan '10
Demon's Souls cost me £43.98 all in from here. http://www.movietyme.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=46260 It arrived in about 5 days. I played it for 1 and didn't get on with it and sold it for £50 on ebay the day after. Bring on Heavy Rain!
dannybuoy on 7 Jan '10
got demon souls for xmas. Haven't put it down since. I could see how its very much i love it or loathe it game though.
WHERESMYMONKEY on 7 Jan '10
got demon souls for xmas. Haven't put it down since. I could see how its very much i love it or loathe it game though.

I think I'm gonig to have to pick up this game soon then, can't go on any gaming site without people saying how good it is, I can't argue against the whole net, and thankfully my local game shop has kindly imported it in themselves.

On topic, I can't wait for Heavy Rain, roll on Feb.
GTCzeero on 7 Jan '10
Demon Soul's definately isn't for everybody though. If you like Diablo and loot/ boss focused games you'll love it.

Just don't expect a walk in the park. It is bastard hard. But fair and incredibly rewarding with it. Just don't fall off a cliff.
WHERESMYMONKEY on 7 Jan '10
Franchises, mcdonalds gm for non core gamers like Un2 and Singscream titles, not to mdntion Dragonbrain...er age, I mdan what happened with that mess of a gm? DS is the type of title you will love or loath(dont laugh, I must have hit the old codger whom fixes weaps for us in the nexus, when I put my controller down. He wont stop following me around a a-golluming at me trying to stab me). That my point the gm makes no apologies for error. I'm glad I got the deluxe version with the gm walkthrough. Heavy Rain is another title Im waiting for. BTW Darksiders rocks love it
procion on 9 Jan '10
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