Heavy Rain Set For Worldwide Launch News

Quantic Dream CEO, Guillaume de Fondaumiere has indicated that the developer and Sony are planning a worldwide release for Heavy Rain when it launches next year, although a precise launch window for the title remains unclear.

"The launch date of Heavy Rain has not been fixed yet. We're looking forward for a worldwide release, and I'm sure we'll be able to communicate the exact launch date very soon now," said de Fondaumiere.

Although originally scheduled for release at the end of this year, Sony has since pushed the title back into next year. Nonetheless, judging by the Japanese voice-acting in this EG video and de Fondaumiere's comments below (which start at around 7:42 in the vid), the game's localisation process appears to be well underway.

"Heavy Rain is not a violent game per se," de Fondaumiere noted. "It's not a game where there is a lot of gore or sex but nevertheless, it is an experience for adults. We wanted to have pretty much the same game everywhere - be it in Europe, the United States, or Japan. Of course we slightly adapted, for instance, the Japanese version but I don't think the changes we've made make a big difference. Those are marginal things where we felt the need to adapt the content to the culture."