But for me, the joy of gaming is enhanced tenfold when you can share the experience with someone right next to you – drinking a few beers, engrossing yourselves in the action and talking about it face-to-face.

Few games are dealing with the emotional and physical consequences of drug abuse, and fewer still the familial repercussions

Even Heavy Rain, a game so close to being a film that it may be one, introduces its only female character in the shower, after which she is chased, semi-nude, around her apartment.

A game where you can opt to nip to the buffet car for a packet of crisps (£2) or a Lion bar (£3.50), or maybe go to the loo and use the magical sink that always sprinkles a fine mist of water directly at your groin area.

Heavy Rain is all about the story...