I beat Assassin's Creed 2 about fifteen minutes before I left to pick up Heavy Rain. Mission 1 done. Phew!

Well I just played about an hour of Heavy Rain, up to where Ethan's chapter ended and Shelby's chapter started.

Wow.

Simply wow.

No movie, game, book, anything narrative has made me felt the way this game just did. Yeah I got the smile of picking the child up; it was infectious, I couldn't help it! But what I am talking about is after the mall scene.

Never have I felt so sorry for any character in a medium, let alone video games. But Heavy Rain hit it. Bringing Shaun back and just seeing how much he had changed since it all went down. Living the different atmosphere that Ethan now lived in; how it was such crap compared to what he had. His life was hell.

You could see it with the actions. Urging to get some time with his child but Shaun wants nothing to do with Ethan. And then sitting Ethan down at the kitchen table while Shaun watches cartoons, you could feel all of Ethan's pain right there.

I'm having a couple little control issues with the game and then the voice acting could be better for what this is, but otherwise it has already wowed me.

Wow.