Game WQ : The Origami Killer:Heavy Rain

There are four main playable characters. The player controls one character at a time, generally playing different characters in each chapter of the game. The characters were voiced, motion captured and modeled after several actors^. Some chapters in the game have the players play as multiple of the characters.

Ethan Mars: Ethan is an architect with a wife and two sons. Two years prior to the main story, his elder son, Jason, dies in a car accident that leaves Ethan in a six-month coma. Now awake, Ethan remains depressed and stricken with grief, and lives alone, estranged from his wife Grace Mars and distant from his other son, Shaun. Ethan soon discovers that Shaun may become the next victim of the Origami Killer, and is forced to go to five trials (danger, suffering, brutal suffering, murder and sacrifice). He is voiced by and modelled after Pascal Langdale.

Scott Shelby: Shelby is a former police officer and marine who suffers from asthma. He is currently working as a private investigator conducting an investigation into the Origami Killer. His partner throughout the latter part of the game is Lauren Winter, the mother of the Origami Killer's second latest victim, Johnny Winters. He is voiced by and modelled after Sam Douglas.

Norman Jayden: Jayden is an FBI profiler sent from Washington to support the police force with their investigation into the Origami Killer. Jayden possesses a set of experimental augmented reality glasses called an "Additional Reality Interface", or ARI. It allows him to rapidly investigate crime scenes and analyse evidence. He is also struggling with an addiction to the drug triptocaine. Norman's superior is police lieutenant Carter Blake, but due to their contradictory opinion of the Origami Killer's identity, Norman develops an obvious disliking of Blake. He is voiced by and modelled after Leon Ockenden.

Madison Paige: Madison is a young photojournalist living alone in the city. Suffering from chronic insomnia and nightmares, she occasionally checks into motels, as they are the only place she can properly sleep. She eventually finds herself involved in the latest Origami Killer case, conducting her own investigations. She also becomes a good friend of Ethan, mending his wounds and helping him with trials; in fact, two of the endings show them together (in a time of either grief or absolute happiness). Her voice capture was done by Judi Beecher, and her facial capture was provided by Jacqui Ainsley.

The game's prologue opens with Ethan Mars, spending his life with his family. He later loses track of one of his sons, Jason, at a busy mall. Jason is soon found, outside on the street, and Ethan jumps to try to save him from an oncoming car. Jason is killed, while Ethan is injured and falls into a coma for six months. Two years after the accident, Ethan is suffering from depression, a fear of crowds, and blackouts that last for several hours. He is estranged from his wife, and his remaining son, Shaun, is distant with him. While at a park with Shaun, Ethan has another blackout, and wakes to find Shaun missing.
Shaun's disappearance is soon tied to the serial murders of the Origami Killer. The criminal's modus operandi is to abduct a young boy during the rainy fall season, after which their bodies are found several days later in a remote location, drowning being the cause of death, along with an origami animal figure in their hands, and an orchid on their chest. FBI profiler Norman Jayden, having come to assist the police with the Origami Killer, concludes that the child is locked in a location where, after 6 inches of rainfall, their bodies will be completely submerged and die from drowning. They realise that they have less than three days to find Shaun.
Ethan retreats to a motel to avoid the media. He receives a letter that directs him to a locker, and finds a shoebox containing a mobile phone, a handgun, and five origami figures. The phone instructs him to complete a set of trials written on each origami figure to display the lengths he is prepared to go to in order to save Shaun, after which he will receive pieces of a street address. The trials present increasing risk as they proceed, from subjecting himself to physical pain and electrocution, cutting off part of his finger, killing a man, and drinking poison. As he attempts these trials, he meets Madison Paige, who helps him to recover physically and emotionally from the trials. Madison begins her own investigation into who may have arranged the trials.
Jayden, working with Lieutenant Carter Blake, investigates two suspects, but comes up empty-handed. Ethan's ex-wife visits the police and informs them of Ethan's blackouts, which lead them to Ethan's psychiatrist. Blake is sure that Ethan is the Origami Killer, while Jayden continues to follow the trail of evidence to confirm otherwise.
During these events, private investigator Scott Shelby begins visiting several of the victims' parents for information, and obtains several items that relate to the Origami Killer. One parent, Lauren Winter, insists on helping him, seeking closure on the matter. They are led astray by a wealthy playboy claiming to be the Killer, and are threatened off the case by his adversarial father .