The “Break it Down” Blog

Heavy Rain – 2000 Page Script, 70 Actors and 170 Days of Mo-Cap

Game Daily posted interview bits with David Cage (President, CEO, Writer and Directory of Quantic Dream and Heavy Rain respectively — and the #1 entry on my personal “People I Admire the Shit Out Of” list). The interview gives us some insight into the scripting and story development aspects of Heavy Rain, which is just another [...]

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Heavy Rain Story Focused on Normal Life with Incredible Graphics

It seems that everything Quantic Dream does is meticulous, intentional and detail-oriented to say the least. When I first laid my hands on Indigo Prophecy (after nagging from a friend that it was an “awesome story-driven game”) I could tell in the first scene that things were going to be different. The game opens up [...]

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New Prince of Persia “Story Trailer”

This was actually a really good trailer. Alot of times when developers try and sell this epic adventure storyline, it falls flat. Personally, I’m not to interested in playing the boring artsy game that tries to validate the industry when I could be having tons of fun playing a mindless shooter like Gears of War [...]

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TGS: Resident Evil 5 Extended Story Traler

Nice extended story-driven trailer for Resident Evil 5 out of TGS. For more information about Resident Evil 5, including details and gameplay movies for the full co-op support, check out our original E3 coverage when all those details were released.

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Mirror’s Edge Animated Story Trailer

If you haven’t been keeping an eye on the gaming scene for a while, there is a game titled “Mirror’s Edge” with a eye-catching art design, tight first-person perspective, and so far a completely unknown story premise. A new animated trailer has dropped that explains the premise of the story now; essentially in some obscure dyosotopic [...]

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