Heavy Rain is a game that is developed around quick time events. Anyone who has played
God of War, Shenmue, or Heavenly Sword is already familiar with QTEs. If you don’t then here’s an explanation. Quick Time Events are cinemas that give you a limited control of your character at certain points in the game. They involve the player to follow an on screen button sequence.
To my knowledge, the whole game will be played this way. Watch current game play videos and you will see her running up a flight of stairs, and then getting into a fight with a knife wielding maniac. The fight takes her pretty much around the whole house. It seems like the player only has to push certain buttons to avoid him.
If Heavy Rain takes off, will we see more games being developed this way? Will Heavy Rain create a new genre of video games? Personally, I’m getting this game. If it’s as good as it looks then hopefully more Quick Time Event games will follow.
Article posted by DCI
2 comments:
Heavy Rain is NOT a QTE based game for God's sakes.
It looks that way from viewing the trailers, but don't let the button pop-ups on the screen fool you into thinking its a QTE.
Madden has button pop-ups for when the Quarterback has to decide which receiver to throw to, but it doesn't make that part a QTE.
Read the preview from 1up to understand how Heavy Rain works.
http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3169463
Wow that's the biggest bunch of bullshit I've ever read. Cell hasn't proven it's any better than the Xbox 360's 3 G5 cores combined with its ATI graphics card. You can buy the 360's components off a shelf? I'm calling bullshit on that too. The XBox 360 sports a specialized G5 processor that isn't available anywhere else. You should also note that the PS3's cell processor is available by IBM off the shelf for its blade servers, and its Nvidia graphics card is also available off the shelf. Thus far the XBox 360 has demonstrated that it can compete with the PS3 on the graphics front; in fact it's still debatable as to which console is more powerful. If the PS3 is truly the "leap forward" you claim it to be this wouldn't be a debate, the PS3 would clearly be the more powerful system. The fact remains that cell is still an unproven technology that has yet to truly demonstrate it is more powerful the Xbox 360's more traditional processors.
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