What’s most remarkable about Heavy Rain is that it’s remarkable before you’ve got the controller in your hands. The characters are captured to a higher level of detail than we’ve ever seen in a PS3 game. Every voice you hear, whether it’s someone you can talk to or just someone in a passing crowd, is coming from the lips of a virtual facsimile of the voice actor.
Gamers are a curious species, seen scuttling through the undergrowth at dusk in search of trinkets such as rechargeable batteries or sniffling out delicacies such as achievements and trophies. Back at their nest (generally in front of a TV or monitor, sometimes hidden away in a box room by their mate) interesting behaviours can manifest themselves.
As we entered the final stages everyone was shown a video covering the last 48 hours. These were excerpts, day by day, from the Scottish Game Jam and had quotes from not only the organisers but from judges as well.
On Sunday 31st of January, Tom Hillman and myself arrived at Glasgow Caledonian University to see the final stages of the Scottish Game Jam.
Star Trek is as widely revered and closely protected by its fans as the Star Wars franchise, so when Cryptic Studios (the team behind City of Heroes) announced a new MMO based off the series many waited with abated breath to see if justice would be done to its untouchable source material.