I love sorting out clues, tracking down leads and all that is entailed in solving a mystery. Heavy Rain presents you with a well-spun yarn that involves all sorts of mystery. You play as several main characters and have to work through the storyline to find out what it is that is going on. Of course, I’m not going to tell you what I’ve found out so far. That’s the whole point (and fun) of the game.

The voice overs are well done and the overall sense is that the characters are fairly realistic. The voices suit the look and feel of each specific character as well as the game itself. Environmental and ambient sounds work to flesh out everything into a nicely rounded, believable and engrossing experience.

I found that I put the game down and couldn’t get back to it so I had to make a point to continue playing on a Sunday afternoon. It’s not that Heavy Rain isn’t interesting and engrossing, it’s just something you need to be in the mood to play. But once you get into the game they do a good job of balancing action sequences with cut scenes and less action-oriented scenes. They all move the story forward without making it feel rushed or like it is dragging on.

Then again there are some moments that are overly drawn out and you wonder why you have to sit through this. There are also situations where the controls feel clunky and break the immersion. This is usually the case when the camera switches location automatically as you move from place to place and you get stuck in a back and forth situation. The characters are sort of lifeless and clunky as well and look like automatons who have no personalities or thoughts of their own.

Overall, I haven’t finished the game yet, but I want to and that says something about it. Even with its minor flaws it is still engrossing and interesting enough to pull you back in and keep you enthralled to its quirkiness for hours on end.