In addition to the earlier batch of screenshots, we've also got a new trailer for Quantic's Heavy Rain.

In keeping with the tone of the game, it's a fairly over-the-top glimpse at the story's themes and scenes. How far are you prepared to go for love? Will you carry off a successful quicktime piggyback ride? Find out next year.

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The latest batch of Heavy Rain screenshots--released to mark the start of GamesCom--was clearly captured by a curious dermatologist. For instance, see that blemish over the right eyelid? That's something we can definitely take care of.

Quantic Dream's thriller hits in early 2010 on PlayStation 3.

With a serial killer on the loose and no end of hostile faces and hopeless situations in sight, it's no wonder Heavy Rain's trailer is a little under the weather.

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Coming from Indigo Prophecy developer Quantic Dream, PlayStation 3 exclusive Heavy Rain has yet to receive the sunny interval of a release date beyond a vague 2010.

Quantic Dream--developed of Indigo Prophecy--shows off quick-time interrogation and crime-solving gadgets in new screenshots of its grim adventure game Heavy Rain.

As with Indigo Prophecy--known as Farenheit outside North America--Heavy Rain's story will be told through the eyes of several characters, and shaped by their actions.

Published by Sony, Heavy Rain is out late in the year exclusively on PlayStation 3.

Like an overburdened cumulonimbus, publisher Sony has loosed a torrent of new screenshots and extreme close-ups from Heavy Rain, the PS3-only "adult" adventure game coming from Indigo Prophecy veteran Quantic Dream next year.

Two years after its debut as a tech demo, publisher Sony today provided the first trailer and in-game screenshots of Quantic Dream's "adult thriller" Heavy Rain, a PlayStation 3 exclusive due out in late 2009.

Similar to Quantic Dream's adventure title Indigo Prophecy, Sony explained that "the dynamic narrative [of Heavy Rain] unfolds through the players actions--not cut scenes--and every action has a consequence."

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French developer Quantic Dream will be working with Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios on a PlayStation 3 exclusive, Sony announced today. SCE WWS, the consolidated Sony Computer Entertainment group, said more details on the collaboration will follow shortly.

"We always believed that 'next generation' meant more meaningful content based on players’ emotional involvement," said Quantic Dream ... Read more