Does Steven Moffat spend all day playing video games, stopping briefly to issue dicatation via a speech to text app on a nearby laptop? How else do you explain the following?
As noticed by www.gamepeople.co.uk – the Sherlock episode “A Study in Pink” features references to the PlayStation 3 game Heavy Rain. It’s more than just a plot element too – the artistic direction (including the short focal length of the cityscapes) and the origami killer in the second episode not to mention the frequent use of publishing of emotions and thoughts to the screen via text in the middle of action are ideas seen already in Heavy Rain.
Sherlock puts Heavy Rain PS3 to excellent use in the show that stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Holmes and Martin Freeman as Watson.
As if to disclose the source of their inspiration for those in the know, as the show first uses Heavy Rain’s words-on-the-screen technique Sherlock says “It’s obvious isn’t it? She’s been in Heavy Rain in the last few hours… where has there been Heavy Rain and strong wind in that time?”
So – is this why we waited so long for a Doctor Who game – so Steven Moffat could spend a few hours playing it?
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Didn’t spot any of that, but that’s because I haven’t traded in my Xbox 360 for a PS3 yet. Heavy Rain is definitely on my wish list, it looks amazing.
My main observation of Sherlock is the similarities to Withnail & I. The chemistry between dour, extravagant, verbose and brilliant Sherlock, and the straightforward, no-nonsense, everyman Watson – all of this is presented in a very similar style to the realtionship between Withnail and Marwood. The Baker Street flat isn’t a million miles away from the Camden bedsit in Withnail & I too. Oh, and Cumberbatch looks quite a bit like Richard E Grant too, especially wearing that long coat.
I almost bought Heavy Rain today. I’ve been pondering about it for last few months but I haven’t really been abnle to afford ‘new game prices’ lately. I might leave it for when the Move controller next month comes out as it’s supposed to be quite good and arguably better controlled with that.
by the way the link to that game site is a little messed up.
Cheers Carn – should work now. Seems to be a copy/paste bug in wordpress :/
Quick, someone slip him a copy of Fallout 3, I wouldn’t mind one bit if he ripped off that game’s plot and setting for next season’s Who finale.
please no, not fallout 3. my least favorite game of the current generation. 20 hours I put into that game and got not even 1 second of enjoyment.
Fallout 3 rocks! I’d be quite happy to see a post apocolyptic world on Doctor Who. I guess Utopia was a bit like that.