According to Sony, their upcoming highly anticipated exclusive, Heavy Rain offers a gripping psychological thriller filled with innumerable twists and turns, where choices and actions can result in dramatic consequences. Heavy Rain spans over four days of mystery and suspense as the hunt is on for a murderer known only as the Origami Killer. Why is this killer named the Origami killer? As a macabre calling card the killer leaves behind folded paper shapes at the crime scenes. Throughout Heavy Rain players will utilize four distinct characters, each following their own leads and with their own motives in a desperate attempt to prevent the killer from claiming a new victim.

With the official release date of Feb 16th, we are already beginning to see reviews which have laid claim to Heavy Rain as an incredibly unique experience that lurches between genius and madness while managing to be genuinely emotional.

Currently maintaining a 95% metacritic rating, Heavy Rain has undoubtedly carved it’s own genre while appearing to force users to broaden their gaming experience while moving the video game development community forward. With today’s thin line of development survival, bold develop creativity seems to be a rarity as the majority of games are either rip-offs or well done sequels. However, Quantic Dream has truly brought their artistic vision to fruition with no limitation strings attached.

It has been said that Heavy Rain may only cater to a niche market and while that may be true, however, for those willing to find the Origami Killer, they may find themselves graduating into the next generation of gaming.