{"id":2007,"date":"2010-02-11T20:46:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T01:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/02\/11\/heavy-rain-%e2%80%93-the-next-great-classic\/"},"modified":"2010-02-22T20:42:57","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T01:42:57","slug":"heavy-rain-%e2%80%93-the-next-great-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/02\/11\/heavy-rain-%e2%80%93-the-next-great-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Rain \u2013 The Next Great Classic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I probably need one more Ultra Amber before I pull the trigger on a <a href=\"http:\/\/playstationlifestyle.net\/2010\/02\/11\/heavy-rain-tops-bestseller-list-after-flood-of-reviews\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/playstationlifestyle.net\/2010\/02\/11\/heavy-rain-tops-bestseller-list-after-flood-of-reviews\/', 'Heavy Rain pre-order');\" target=\"_blank\">Heavy Rain pre-order<\/a>, but the hype is building to a crescendo.  The reviews are incredibly favorable (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/games\/platforms\/ps3\/heavyrain\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/games\/platforms\/ps3\/heavyrain', '89%');\" target=\"_blank\">89%<\/a>).  Or put another way, 80% of the Heavy Rain reviews rate the game 90% or better, which is an almost staggering ratio.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I probably need one more Ultra Amber before I pull the trigger on a Heavy Rain pre-order, but the hype is building to a crescendo. The reviews are incredibly favorable (89%). Or put another way, 80% of the Heavy Rain reviews rate the game 90% or better, which is an almost staggering ratio.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,9],"class_list":["post-2007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-heavy-rain","tag-ps3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2087,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions\/2087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}