Quantic Dream Asked to Censor Heavy Rain’s Stormiest Scenes
Heavy Rain is well known for its compelling decision-driven gameplay which helps to bring a sense of reality to many of the games scenes, even scenes featuring explicit or extremely violent content. An ex-member of Quantic Dream has revealed that Sony actually asked Quantic Dream to tone down particular scenes, due to overwhelming violence or excessive nudity.
Alexandre Roche, ex-animator for Quantic Dream reveals during an interview with UPSBlogit why Sony asked them to cut out certain parts of the PlayStation 3 exclusive. SPOILERS AHEAD.
I worked on the animations, in fact, Heavy Rain contains more than 20000 body’s animations. Each one of them is the result of acting in Quantic Dream’s Motion Capture studio, and I had to refine these with a team of 10 animators.
But don’t worry, they just ask us to hide some nudity during the showers or the love scene. They also ask us to hide the death of Jason Mars. But I guess there is no other change between the original David Cage’s version and the final version.
Roche further goes on to say how the car accident scene changed from the uncensored version:
Actually the animation wasn’t so different. In the uncensored scene, after the car accident, Jason started rolling on the road for a while. It was quite violent scene considering that a child was involved in it.
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8 Responses to “Quantic Dream Asked to Censor Heavy Rain’s Stormiest Scenes”
And the scene where Jason snaps off one of his fingers wasn’t considered shocking? Sony needs to be more consistent.
Well.. Hopefully the update will be optional..
@Ray Conley
I think it’s a little different when involving a child, as stated. You don’t actually see *Ethan’s* finger get cut off anyway.
@H8
update, what article are you reading?
yea, those things are kind of understandable. It still got the point across. I did remember thinking it was a little weird when you don’t see Jason’s death, but it was pretty obvious as to why. The love scene was pretty weird anyway, the character models looked really good until they started touching each other – you could really tell how fake it was at those points.
@sky Whoops i misread the article.. LOL I was thinking they were going to release a patch to censor some parts but i guess they did it before the release of the final product. Thanks for the correction! =]
Give me that content for an extral 3 buck. Sound like a good idea.
I actually like the way they did the scene Jason being hit by the car and then the screen panning up with the balloon floating up, I don’t think that scene would have had quite as much a dramatic effect as it did had they showed Jason’s dead body.