Heavy Rain, the story-driven game from developer Quantic Dream, has been delayed till 2010. The title was scheduled to come out later this year but Guillaume de Fondaumiere, the co-CEO of Quantic Dream, has offered more insights on the reason the PS3 exclusive is being delayed to 2010. According to him, one key reason is because a game as innovative as Heavy Rain “needs space.”
Meet Detective Shelby, a brand new Heavy Rain character revealed and demoed at Gamescom Cologne. David Cage, writer/director for the game and Founder/CEO of French development studio Quantic Dream, plays through the demo in the video below. Details about the plot of Heavy Rain remain scarce. Cage has stated that Heavy Rain would be “a very dark film noir thriller with mature themes”, without any supernatural elements, and that “the real message [of the game] is about how far you’re willing to go to save someone you love.
