Heavy Rain

In this cinema-style action game, players control one of four main characters whose lives are altered by events surrounding the investigation of the Origami Killer, a serial killer who kidnaps children from public places. Gameplay consists of controlling a character in a fully interactive environment, choosing a variety of action-, dialogue-, and decision-paths based on on-screen prompts; and watching as cinematic cutscenes progress the somewhat dark storyline. Players may encounter victims at various crime scenes: a clothed woman in a bathtub tainted with blood; a child under forensic examination (the scene is narrative and clinical, with no depictions of the victim's face or signs of trauma). More direct depictions of violence include: a woman screaming and writhing as she catches on fire; a man impaled in the chest with a power drill; a woman attacked by masked male assailants; and a man shot by police officers in slow-motion. Blood sometimes accompanies the acts of violence. During a “lizard trial” sequence, the player's character is forced to cut off a segment of his own finger to save his son's life. Several instruments (saw, scissors, knife, etc.) can be used to remove the finger and though the camera pans away from the actual dismemberment, the scene is heightened by focusing on the blade, the deliberation before the cut, and the man's screams of horror/pain. Shower cutscenes may depict characters' bare buttocks and breasts if playing as the female character. One scene depicts a character asking a woman to strip at gunpoint; after removing her clothing and bra, she is briefly depicted dancing topless in front of the man. The game also contains a prompt-based love scene (kissing and caressing) in which players match on-screen cues to angle characters' mouths, remove shirts and pants, and pull each other to the floor; a woman is briefly depicted topless amidst heavy breathing and occasional moaning before the camera fades to black. One character is addicted to a fictional drug called Triptocaine, sometimes referred to as “dope” during the game. Some scenes depict this character snorting the drug from a vial or staggering from the drug's effects while the screen blurs. The words “f**k” and “sh*t” appear in the dialogue.