First off, let me just say that I really enjoyed Heavy Rain, and this is not a thread I'm creating to bash the game. However, I've seen some threads talking about how amazing the presentation is. I was just wondering if I was the only one that felt that things like graphics and sound fell short some of the time. I'll give you a few examples.
The voicework. Scott's voicework was great. However, Lauren, the fbi agent, and any of the kids (particularly them) had voicework that was often inconsistent, sometimes even poor. Ethan's (spelling?) voicework was generally good but had a few moments where I was just in pain. Such as this..."JASON!....JASON!....JASON!" There were other parts of the game where I just felt like he was trying to have some kind of accent. I've heard that they got people from all over the place to do the voicework, and that's why they sounded that way.
Graphics: I think that the graphics at their best are great, at times even amazing. However, there are other points in the game where I felt that they were just average. I think that the fbi agent's character model was unimpressive for instance. I also felt that some of the environments were lacking too from a visual standpoint.
These things are minor in the end, it didn't ruin the game for me by any means. However, with this game going for this totally cinematic vibe, I feel that it's production vaues could have been a lot better. The problems at times were enough to hurt my immersion in the experience a little bit. I see people talking about this as being a graphics king, I just don't see how someone could play this and say that with games like Gears of War, Banjo, Mass Effect 2, Killzone 2, MGS 4, and the Uncharted games out there.
I do want it to be known that the game does a lot of fairly ambitious things, and I absolutely recommend it to anyone interested.
Just curious to know what you guys think?
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