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Heavy Rain: DLC and Collector's Edition

Heavy Rain: DLC and Collector's Edition

All kinds of news is spilling out about Heavy Rain right now.

Jefferson Dong, SCEA Marketing Manager for Heavy Rain, announced on the PlayStation Blog that from today, Canadian and US pre-orders of the title will come bundled with the first episode of the ‘Heavy Rain Chronicles’ for free. Expected to usually retail at $4.99, this first installment, entitled Heavy Rain: Chronicle One – The Taxidermist, features investigative journalist Madison Paige. If it looks familiar to you, you’re not wrong – it’s an expansion of the original Taxidermist demo you probably saw in 2008.

Wondering what the Heavy Rain Chronicles are? “Each Chronicle will offer unique, stand-alone, playable short stories featuring one of Heavy Rain’s main characters, and a storyline taking place either before or after Heavy Rain’s original narrative,” Dong explains. “Similar to Heavy Rain, each episode will offer a unique journey and different outcomes based on the players’ decisions and actions.”

The European Collector’s Edition is expected to not only feature the first Taxidermist HR Chronicle, but also a XMB theme for your PS3 and downloadable soundtrack, all packed up in a ‘rain-effect’ slip-case.

Hmm. Am I the only one who expects more than that when paying premium prices for a Collector’s Edition?

Via PlayStation Blog

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2 Comments

  1. Martee Warree December 22, 2009

    This just makes me even more jealous that Heavy Rain isn’t being released for the 360.
    Having played Fahrenheit around the time it came out and loving it, when I first heard Heavy Rain announced I got really excited, I slowly realised that there was no 360 release expected. As I mentioned in the Dante’s Inferno post, I attended the Eurogamer Expo in Leeds, and while I was there I got to see and play Heavy Rain and it was great, the graphics and narrative really stood out. I had to keep reminding myself that it was a game and not a movie. If you are a fan of Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy) you really need to pick this game up…. just don’t brag about it to me, or you may wake up to find your PS3 ‘missing’.

  2. Krishna M. December 23, 2009

    Personally, I’m very happy that it’s not coming out for the 360. I’m pleased that Sony has something like this, all to its own. It needs it.

    In regards to the extra goodies that come from pre-ordering – I’m pretty satisfied. It’s nice to get something that is itself a game and that also expands upon the regular game. It makes me want to almost pre-order it, even though I won’t have a PS3 by the time it comes out.

    Thanks for the article!

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