Prediction Edge will give Heavy rain a 7/10.

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Oooo who gonna be eating crow from this thread?

I don't think Edge are going to give this game a mediocre rating, so 6, 7 and possibly even 8 are out. It's either a 5 or a 9 from them I think. They'll either love it or hate it. It's either worse than Dante's Inferno (6/10) or much better.

It'll be a ridiculously short, boring piece of crap interspersed with a bunch of meaningless QTEs. How anyone would bring themselves to go through such a painfully uninteresting series of button pushes will be beyond comprehension. Earning it a 5.

Or

It will be fresh, mature, suspenseful and the controls will be an inventive and interesting new direction for the QTE style of game play. All that with great replayability from the myriad of different choices leading to different outcomes. "We had great fun killing off all the main characters to see what that ending would be like". Earning it a 9 (probably not a 10).

I think the game has too much going for it to warrant a 5 from Edge, so I'm gonna go with 9.

However, since I consider a poor score to be real possibility, I've immunised myself from crow in mouth disease.