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Heavy Rain: The Taxidermist

Heavy Rain: The Taxidermist is a prequel to Heavy Rain and offers about 15 minutes in gameplay with 5 different endings. It was offered as paid downloadable content for the regular version of the game and in…

30 4 March 2010

Heavy Rain: The Taxidermist is an adventure developed by Quantic Dream, released 4 March 2010 on PlayStation 3.

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What Heavy Rain: The Taxidermist is

Heavy Rain: The Taxidermist is an adventure game developed by Quantic Dream and released in 2010. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 3 only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

This episode puts the player in the shoes of journalist Madison Paige, a character also present in the full game, and it takes place before those events. She is working on the story of the Origami Killer and goes to a house where he may be hiding.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are drama, mystery and thriller. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Heavy Rain: The Taxidermist holds a critic score of 30 out of 100. That places it above 2% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 40 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Heavy Rain: The Taxidermist launched on 4 March 2010, within three weeks of God of War III, Metro 2033, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and Heavy Rain. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: God of War III, Metro 2033, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Heavy Rain.

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When did Heavy Rain: The Taxidermist come out?
Heavy Rain: The Taxidermist was released on 4 March 2010 for PlayStation 3.

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