Shippin' Out: February 21-27: Heavy Rain

Omg Hello Kitty Birthday Adventures!! OMG!! AND PONY FRIENDZ 2!! YAS!!!!!

Hello Kitty: Birthday Adventures YESH FINALLY !!!!!1!!1!1one!!1!elevenone11!!!!!!!!!

am I the only one who is probably going to get metal slug XX? :)

oh sweet Napoleon Total War is out the week

Sonic & Sega Racing is the first game in forever that I plan to buy as soon as it's out, usually I don't here of a game until after it's release, but now that I can learn about them early this is the first I actually wish to get immediately.

The only one of those games that sounds any fun are Sonic & Sega: All-stars Racing and Risen...... Well Risen is kinda sketchy but it still sounds......not so bad....

im gonna rent heavy rain, i no i no i should buy it but i aways just rent games cuz most of the time i complete them and never play them again

Heavy Rain will hold me off til battlefield bc2 which than hold me off til FFXIII, in which all three if im not done with will be put to the side for God Of War 3. This is the best 4 weeks ever!

Tomorrows forecast, cloudy with a chance of 'Heavy Rain!' i cant wait for it.

@maverick_76 I am all for games to have multiplayer but there are more people that like only single player. I for one only play very seldum on mp. If more game companies spent more time on single then mp then we would have better and longer games. Granted some have both with mp but most companies got to have mp and throw sp in just for kicks.

HR will redefine the on-rails genre

Still waiting for March 9th!!

@BigBigR The main reason I have issues with the replay value is a lack of multi-player. You have to agree with me that multi-player can add hundreds of extra hours of enjoyment out of a game. Shoot me a message when you get through all 23 of those endings, tell me how much fun it was. You know as well as I do you might get 3, maybe 4 play-throughs before the game becomes very repetitive. That clocks in at around 24-32 hours of playtime, about 1/3 the playtime an average game with robust multi-player will give you. I understand that this game is different and ground-breaking but so was Avatar, and I would not pay a premium to own that movie either.

@jl0pez I agree with you! The addition of Banjo-Kazooie and how well his racer played in the demo is enough to sway the fans to the XBOX 360 version. Sorry your comment's getting botched up with negative marks. Just because we want that version doesn't warrant negativity.

Pony Friends 2 and Hello Kitty: Birthday Adventures sounds less torturous then playing Heavy Rain.

It's been a long time coming

I hope that Heavy Rain does well in sales, but I won't be buying it (not really into the whole interactive-movie thing) Sega All Stars Racing might be worth a look too. Demo was pretty fun, but it might not be a $60 game

Heavy Rain and Sega All-stars I played both demos both great games.

Can't wait till tomorrow HEAVY RAIN! is out and im also picking up Last Rebellion and Risen.

I'm actually so excited about Heavy Rain... I refuse to play the demo because I want the whole game to be fresh and new when I get it instead of playing a scene and being like "Ugh... I've played this before..." Day one purchase for sure, although I am really pissed off that I missed all the collector's editions...

Right now, Heavy Rain looks like a rent and NTW isn't a buy until CA corrects problems in ETW. Other then that I'm running through Borderlands again until the next DLC comes out.

Heavy Rain! Been waiting forever. This'll be a day one purchase for me for sure.

I have been waiting on Heavy Rain for the last 2 years when I first heard about it at GDC 2008. The demo was phenomenal, but I will say the one negative is that the walking controls need a lot of tightening.

Sonic and sega all stars on 360 for me. The 360 has more characters to play with.

Really looking forward to Heavy Rain, and I pre-ordered Endless Ocean for the wifey. I think that game might surprise people. Good week.

@maverick_76 Yes, because as you know blu-ray movies usually are 8 to 10 hours long, right? This without taking into account the 23 different endings they also usually have. *rolls eyes* And some people (I'm looking at you, Lark) say it doesn't have good replayability? Sure, it won't be as impressive as it was the first time around, but that's the same for any game I know. In most other reviews I've seen here at Gamespot when a game has several achivementes and collectibles to get after you've beaten the game, that's considered "good replay value". But it's the same story right? The same levels, the same fights, the same everything! Of course it won't be as exciting!

WOOHOOO!!!!! HEAVY RAIN!!!!! Sony should call this "Chocalate Rain". then it would get everyone's attention and sell 100 million copies.

i thought this game was gonna fail but once again i got shut up by sony lol

Heavy Rain FTW Demo rocked and that's all I need to say

heavy rain sucks

that SONIC & SEGA All Stars Racing demo on PSN was actually good, i hope the rest of the game follows up.

Metal Slug XX rules!

Looking forward to Sonic and Sega Allstar racing and think I'll try Super Speed Machines

I should get Hello Kitty Birthday Adventures. Sounds like a good value.

@Egotte Love the references. Not many people remember the games you're talking about. Agree, it sure would be nice for the adventure game genre to get a revival.

Heavy Rain is reminiscent of the old Sierra adventure games that were popular amongst PC-gamers in the mid-late 90s. Gabriel Knight, King's Quest, even Phantasmagoria, Police Quest appear to have influence. Heavy Rain's story itself is nothing all too impressive, but its sales may pave the way for other developers to begin delving into the adventure game genre once again.

Heavy Rain slipped right under my notice--it became available on Gamefly probably yesterday and now currently lists as "Low" availability. :( Now I think I'm actually going to have to break down and buy it if I want to play it. It may never become available through Gamefly with all the hype surrounding it now.

I was excited for Heavy Rain until I played the demo.

Heavy Rain Tuesday! It's about time a game developer realized an awesome story with realistic characters is a better way to enjoy a game rather than having people with big muscles chainsawing people with an assault rifle. Or, releasing three games, making no improvements, and getting millions.

So "Napoleon:Total War" is available today (as I pre-ordrered it) but Steam doiesn't release it until the 27th (or 28th here in Australia). Does that mean we have to wait several days to play it as it is Steam-linked? If so, not inmpressed.

Ah Heavy Rain. I've been waiting to get my hands on your sweet, sexy case. So luscious. So new. So beautiful. Come to daddy my darling one. :)

@Egotte I agree, since it is so much like a movie and not a game, it has lower replay value which means I wouldn't spend more than $30 on it (current price of a new release on Blu-Ray). As of right now it is a rental, possibly a purchase when it drops in price.

Heavy Rain will make a GREAT rental!

I wish Heavy rain would also come on the pc, but I guess Napoleon will be enough to keep me happy :)

Napolean: Total War.... Let the beginning of the PC RTS games begin. Endless Ocean Blue World.... another good wii exclusive that will not get any fanfare.

woo hoo HEAVY RAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

So many crappy kids games crammed into only a few days. Heavy Rain isn't competing with anything. Aside from Metal Slug XX and HR I'd be insulted if they wanted premium bargin bin price for any of those games.

to be honest i was SOOOOOOO EXCITED for HR but after knowing it can be finished in 8-10 hours with NO replayability i was very dissapointed,probably gonna wait until the price drops or a cheap used copy is around

Hello Kitty: Birthday Adventures... finally! Game of the year.

I'm trying to decide if I should go to work or not this tuesday just to play Heavy Rain. LOL