Play Heavy Rain Demo Early Through Sony's ARG
If you've been watching our coverage of Quantic Dream's upcoming Heavy Rain, you'll know why this is exciting news. Rather than waiting until sometime next week, you can try the playable demo of the game today, through Sony's online puzzle/ARG, "Four Days." Granted, it's difficult to call this an ARG, since it's mainly a one-player challenge that involves a decent amount of logic and research, but it does include a Twitter account where curious players can ask questions of one of the characters involved in the story.
If you want to puzzle out the evidence that leads to the killer, you can start at various forums to make sure you're on the right trail. Of course, this being the internet, someone has already gone and spoiled the answers for the sake of winning the game's ultimate prize: early demo access. And, being as eager to get our hands on Heavy Rain as we are, we're going to spoil it, too! Only after the jump, though.
Please note that both the evidence site and and registration site are currently overloaded with folks desperate for the demo, so it will require some patience
To see the final steps of "Four Days" and how to download your Heavy Rain demo, hit the jump below!
[via: Kotaku]
- Visit Precinct 52 - if necessary, clink the link to register your email address.
- Upon entering, select the four pieces of evidence you see below. Their descriptions:
- Origami bird (1117/E)
- Cigarette without lipstick (1117/B)
- Diner (Coffee Shop C)
- "Import" tire tracks (1117/H)
- Click the glowing button to submit evidence and receive your download code.
- Enjoy!
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Posted to Video Games on 5 February 2010
· Comments (7)
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Thanks so much for posting this. I have tried the demo and loved it. Cannot wait for the full game.
I guess I'm stuck waiting till next week. None of the codes I get work :(
I'm not sure if it's the same for everyone, but the code I got only worked using an account I had made to download stuff from the UK PSN store.
This link has another suggestion if you want a code that works in the US store.
Thanks so much for that!
I wanted to try that Four Days thing.
Sadly it requires dabbling in that social abomination Twitter and rather illogically requires you to use a program like Paintshop.
I was put off by that. From the Four Days thing anyway. I'm still looking forward to the actual game. Provided it doesn't use the same stupid puzzle-solving methods.
I just played it and I must say I was hooked. I loved everything about it. And the way it draws you into the story is simply unbelievable. I played it a few times and I can't wait to play the real game.
i downloaded heavy rain demo but i can not play it?the intro up to play demo appears and i can not do anything . does anyone know what to do?