Sony has revealed the Heavy Rain pre-order goodies that you will recieve for reserving your copy of this highly anticipated, Mature-rated, cinematic adventure exclusively for the PlayStation 3.
Those who do reserve will earn a free copy of The Heavy Rain Chronicles episode 1. Entitled “Heavy Rain: Chronicle One – The Taxidermist”.
These Chronicle episodes will offer players additional Heavy Rain downloadable content as extra stories, short stories that is, featuring the main characters from Heavy Rain proper. Each of them will be unique and will be self-contained. That is, they will stand alone, separate of the main story. The timeline in these additional episodes will be set either before or after the main narrative in the game as well.
Like the main game, these episodes will also offer different outcomes (read: endings) based on the choices and actions that the player makes, as well as offering a unique journey.
“Heavy Rain: Chronicle One – The Taxidermist” will feature investigative journalist Madison Paige in one of her first cases tracking down a serial killer. Most of you are familiar with this episode as it is an expansion and update to the original “Taxidermist” demo that received such positive response when shown last year.
Here are the retailers offering the bonus episode in the US and Canada:
US Locations:
Amazon
GameCrazy
GameStop (online and in-store)
Canada Locations:
Amazon.ca
BestBuy.ca
EB Games
FutureShop.ca
For those who don’t pre-order Heavy Rain, the first two episodes of Heavy Rain Chronicles will be available for purchase and download through the PlayStation Store after the release of Heavy Rain – the exact dates will be announced at a later date.
If you haven’t heard of Heavy Rain, give this video a look. It describes the deep cinematic stories that the game is aiming for.
Via PlayStation Blog
You can find all the bonuses in our Heavy Rain codes & trophies list and once the game is out, check out our Heavy Rain walkthrough.