A new Heavy Rain trailer has been released, thanks to Gamescom going on right now in Germany. The clip follows a brand new playable character, whose son was hit and killed by a car. As the trailer progresses, you see the father’s life start to quickly fall apart after the accident.

When the trailer starts off, its made out that he almost had a perfect life. Nice house, two children and a beautiful wife. But soon after the boy was hit his life turnaround for the worse, he becomes wifeless, has one less son and living in a crummy, broken-down house. You can also read his face, which looks tired and looney because of the pain of loosing a son. At one point, it looks like his other son somehow goes missing which is being presented as if the Origami Killer kidnapped him.

While I’m impressed with the trailer overall, few things do bug me — most notably the voiceover. While I respect the fact that Quantic Dream is trying to engross the player to have some sort of emotional attachment to the character because of his son dying. The acting is rather cheesy and somewhat hurts the overall feeling of sadness they are trying to represent in the video.

Heavy Rain is due in stores sometime next year.