Quantic Dream's Heavy Rain: A PS3 Exclusive

With so many games released for both the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360, the decision to purchase either console rests on a matter of taste and first party exclusives, the games you can't play anywhere else. Enter Heavy Rain, a PS3 exclusive from Quantic Dream, the developer behind 2005's psychological thriller, Indigo Prophecy. It's a game that combines gorgeous graphics and an open-ended story, sort of like those popular Choose Your Own Adventure Books. We've only seen one scenario, but if it's a small taste of things to come, PS3 just became more attractive.

Heavy Rain is a third person adventure in which the choices you make have a rippling effect throughout the entire game. During last week's games convention in Leipzig, the developers demoed a scene with a young, shorthaired and beautiful reporter stopping her motorcycle in front of a house sitting on an everyday suburban street. She makes note of children playing and people talking outside. Rain pitter patters off her body and impressively runs down her face. It's quite striking.