Heavy Rain Not Meant For “Tabloids Or Censorship”
David Cage, the mastermind behind Quantic Dream’s Heavy Rain, insists he didn’t write the PlayStation 3 murder mystery thriller for the media or censorship.
Discussing the exclusive with the Official PlayStation Magazine UK, David Cage has a said a project like Heavy Rain isn’t meant for the Tabloids:
When you write something or you develop a project like Heavy Rain, you don’t write for tabloids. You don’t wonder what censorship will think of it, because otherwise you’d never do anything.
Cage also defends the explicit and violent scenes in Heavy Rain, recently detailed by ESBR:
The game is not shocking for the sake of being shocking. There are some impressive scenes later in the game, but there’s never sex for the sake of sex or gore for the sake of gore. Nothing is gratuitous, and I think that everything supports the narrative and the emotional immersion of the player
The Origami Killer will be arriving on February 23 in the US, and February 26 in the UK. The demo’s date has also been confirmed.
11 Responses to “Heavy Rain Not Meant For “Tabloids Or Censorship””
“…the mastermind mind…”
Anyway, it sounds like this game will really push the envelope in more than a couple ways, i.e. sexual scenes, violence, even genre and graphical appearances.
cant wait. I watched some videos of people interviewing david cage about the game. The game they have created looks like a winner to me. I couldnt pull myself away from the videos just watching him explore a junkyard. The videos had me hooked and wanting more. He almost died like 5 times in just a few min, it is going to be intense.
Thank god for people who won’t censor their own work. It seems like people out there think that the real world is filled with fairies and flowers and sugar and everything nice, and that video games should reflect that. It will be nice when video games get respect like other forms of media for having mature story lines that display the world as what it really is, a horrible gritty place full of tragedy, violence, sex, drugs, and everything else that conservative windbags would rather ignore. Hooray for pushing the envelope. I really hope this game is as good as it looks, and is very successful.
hello …
this is The Game made by The Mastermind … so yes it will be a success & i’m happy to contribute
already pre-ordered, can’t wait to lay my hands on it & on Feb 4 the demo will move more people to it.
cheers!
I hope this game does push the envelope and doesn’t go downhill and become QTE crazy like Indigo Prophecy did at the last half. Making players watch movies while they align analog sticks is not ground breaking to me.
Gonna have to preorder this one.
Amazon, here i come
I think the website starts up this week too, so that should be a nice setup for the game
Great view Cage, I’m happy they could stick to their grounds and not sacrifice what they wanted to create for what people made them create. HR will be incredible, I guarantee it.
I f you ask me it doesnt’ matter and this game should hae gotten a NC17 because of it’s art approach to set materials. Which is what the NC17 rating was for. Too many time people look at the MA rating as nothing more than glorified pronography. Which is most cases it is, but who cares, as long as it keep the kids cut off and the parents aware it’s all good. But what nobody is a dressing with legal action is that parents buy this titles for their kids and just don’t even pay attention. Now there’s the crime of it all. Not the creations or production of set materials but the parents lazy none interest in what their kids do. Who care if the kids kill their parents or friends or classmate and then kill themselves, Put the parents behind bars as if the kids were skipping school or something.
@Natie – thats quite a rant. for the record though, there is no NC17 rating for video games… thats movies. And I can’t remember seeing a movie with that rating unless it was some sort of hardcore porn. Anways, what you’re thinking of would be the A rating, for Adult. As far as I can see theres only one difference between that and MA+, which is that you have to be 18 instead of 17 to legally purchase the game. Not much of a difference there… I don’t think thats going to stop, or allow, any murders.
It wont. Ao will become the next Ma, and then parents will jsut get them for their kids and things will continue. The reason it isn’t seen more prevalently is because companies do not WANT to be the ones to produce the next level in graphic video games and then receive all tha bad press. Look at what happened with GTA San andreas and their 2 versions- they were all over the news for days and then H Clinton went on her “anti- video game” rage. No compant wants to be the reason video game censorship is taken to a new level.
(although that will never happen because of constitutional freedom)