Heavy Rain wasn’t written with censorship in mind

Speaking with the Official PlayStation Magazine, David Cage, the man behind Quantic Dreams’ upcoming PlayStation 3 exclusive Heavy Rain has revealed that he was never concerned with the censorship committees when writing the script for the game.

As a gamer, this is a huge deal if you were one of those who played Indigo Prophecy, you’d know that certain portions of the game were censored out from our version. However, those of you who played Fahrenheit, the European release, received the full on package on how it was originally intended to be played.

Thankfully, this time around, Heavy Rain isn’t going to be censored within any region and gamers across the globe can truly enjoy this masterpiece for everything that it is.

“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. 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,” added Cage.

Sounds good to me. Sounds exactly the complete opposite of what Activision and Infinity Ward did with Modern Warfare 2 — you know — putting something shocking in the game just to be shocking. Make sure to pick up Heavy Rain at the end of February, it’s going to change the way you look at video games.

Readers Comments (5)

  1. sweet :), heavy rain is gonna be an amazing game, i await patiently to unravel the mystery

  2. idk if i shoulg get this or bioshock 2

    HELP!!!!!

  3. PS3 Alex, get both 🙂

    Personally I never got into Bioshock, so I don’t have the dilemma of which one to get.

  4. @Ryan: idk, but it seems to me that when someone asks for help on which game to get…it usually means he can only get one (perhaps ATM)

    id go with Heavy Rain

  5. Why not get them both?

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