Heavy Rain Goes Gold, Demo Coming February 11


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They're doing maintenance now, hopefully that'll fix it.

Either ****ty servers, or genuinely a decent bit of interest in the game, hoping for the later. I thought you'd tear the demo apart Sethos but I understand you when you say games like this live or die on their story so it's pretty hard to judge until you play the game.

I mean it's not like a hack'n'slash where a demo could tell you ****, this game sucks at it's major focal point, combat.

Yes, this game is all about the Story and by that standard, the demo is really bland - It's a great taster of what we can expect but play it once and you're kinda done.

Might give it a bash sometime later to try some different reply options etc. but again, that has nothing to do with the real game as you go through such

sequences once and you're "stuck" with whatever you done - This isn't really the case with the demo and you only do it to exhaust the demo some more.

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I'm downloading the demo now! :D

Now that the site is back up, I went through it all again, I got the same code; it turned out I ballsed up and wrote it down wrong. I was too excited to double-check. :p

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it took all day but i finally managed to get a code. Now PSN is once again slow for me!

Won't let me do anything without updating. So i can't even get the demo downloading.

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The website is back up! I just got my code. I will try this on my EU PSN account when I get home..

yep, he's right its back up!

slow though :( but it works! :)

but my code doesnt work :( - used my UK account.

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You can get the demo now, I'm currently downloading it. :D

Details

or better put.

Go to http://heavyrainps3....on/signup/en_GB and sign up.

Then go to http://www.precinct5...se1117_briefing and enter the details you signed up with.

You'll be on a flash based board where you have to select 4 pieces of evidence.

1.Select the "cigarette butts" picture and choose the short one.

2.Select the "tire track prints" picture, and choose the one but last picture on the right, labelled with "odd differential possible right hand drive?"

3.Select the diner picture just left and down from the "tire track prints"

4.Select the "Origami Bird" picture on the left of the board.

Now go to the evidence folder and submit the pictures and you should get a code.

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I played it earlier, and it's good, but not amazing. The second scene was fairly dull, but the first scene was pretty good. I'm definitely gonna wait for it to drop in price before I buy it.

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Finally...

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Tip for those who get on the site, just leave the loading icon, I kept refreshing after a few mins of it not loading, but when I left it alone it just eventually appeared.

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Taking forever to load here, thought it would have cleared up by now when people were trying this 10 hours ago. :laugh:

They probably limited the number of active connections the server will allow to 3, to create the illusion of demand :shiftyninja:

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They probably limited the number of active connections the server will allow to 3, to create the illusion of demand :shiftyninja:

Finally got through and received a code, will download it tomorrow and give it a go. :)

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Played through the demo, it was the two scenes leaked a while back so no suprises for me. I might see if it's possible for Shelby to be killed in that fight during a replay.

I know your face can get beaten up and marks stay for rest of game.

Apart from that, I'm happy enough with the control scheme, takes a while to get used to but again due to the cinematic approach to this game, something of the sort was required. Just waiting on the reviews on the 11th now before I pre-order so I know a bit more about how the story holds up, it's the meat of the game.

Oh noticed some screen tearing a few times, hopefully just earlier demo code, as I said videos of these two scenes leaked a while ago, maybe from this actual compiled demo.

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The only other thing I'd say as a slight negative is the voice acting does sound very scripted. It's not terrible or bad, okay for the most part, some things quite good - Easily listenable if you can get into the game.

I think the problem is the fluidness because you can choose so many options on what to say, it's obvious certain phrases have been scripted during other sessions where the voice actor might have a raise in tone/slight inconsistency following the main mandatory sentence before the options come into play.

Also the L2 button is totally the new MGS codec call conversations you used to be able to randomly have in MGS1-3 :p

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Just played the demo, very impressed by it. Wasn't sure how the controls would work, but they seem to work well. Walking can be a bit fiddly, but I think you'd get used to it really quickly. Going to play it again and try a few different choices/make them in a different order to see if there's anything different.

Very tempted to pre-order it.

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Just finished the demo. There's a few issues I had. Walking and camera movement is a bit clunky and non-fluid. There's also screen tearing issues.

Other than that, looks like this will be a great game.

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Bummer. Mine says code is invalid or no longer available for use. whistle.gif

Is this Europe only?

After further reading:

"Update: The codes appear to only work for PAL PlayStation Network accounts."

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Gee, glad I signed up for their spam-fest :laugh:

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Did you click the box saying you wanted to receive emails? I don't seem to have received any such rubbish in my inbox. :p

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Enjoyed the demo, deffo keeping it on preorder :) not impressed by some of the voice acting though.. if it ends up killing the mood in the final release, I'll even consider playing it with one of the other language tracks.

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