Heavy Rain patch released, DLC date announced

Those who experience freezes and crashes during gameplay should now be able to enjoy the game; the Taxidermist DLC coming soon

Posted on Mar 19, 2010 - 12:51pm EST

If Heavy Rain was causing major problems for you, then you should head to your PS3 now and pop-in your copy of Heavy Rain.

Quantic Dream and Sony have released Patch 1.02 for the title and it is reportedly fixing all previous problems the game was suffering from. As has been reported since the game launched, some users had serious freezing issues, graphical glitches, and a variety of other bugs damper their Heavy Rain experience. Thankfully all that now appears to have passed us by with this new patch. Weighing in at 38MBs, the file is small in size, but some are reporting some minor problems while trying to download it the file, so please be patient if it doesn't download right away.

Sony did state this patch may not fix all the problems, but they hope it fixes most. For our personal experience, no issues were encountered during multiple playthroughs.

Those of you who pre-ordered Heavy Rain, have already gotten a chance to play Chapter 1 of the Heavy Rain Chronicles, The Taxidermist. But, for those who didn’t pre-order, Sony have officially announced that The Taxidermist chapter will be available to download for $4.99 through the PlayStation Store on Thursday, April 1. Mark it down! Please note, however, you must have a copy of Heavy Rain to play the chapters of the Heavy Rain Chronicles.