err it looks good... but will it look like that in gameplaybf2nutta
It will look like that in gameplay. The question you should ask is, "Whats the gameplay".
When you hear the director talk about Indigo Prophecy (he does so in the training area and in the manual of IP), he's very adamant about it being an intereactive movie and a new way to tell stories. He's very adamant about it. He never actually refers to it as a game and rightfully so.
To a gamer, the best way to describe Indigo Prophecy's gameplay would be an RPG without battles or inventory management. You get to make dialog decisions but... thats pretty much it in terms of interactivity. Every once in a while you have to do Shenmue style action sequences (not the fighting ones, the guess the button minigames) both those aren't all the often. However, the best way to actually describe it is this: its a choose your own adventure book that came on a xbox disc. If you imagine the amount of freedom/control, or lack of, you have of your character in those books and tried to picture a game that stayed as true to that as possible, you have a good idea of Indigo Prophecy and likely Heavy Rain. If you think of it as a game you're going to be dissapointed. Not because its bad or anything, but because it really isn't a game.
But a major flaw of IP was controls. That game was horrible in moving your character. Just walking around an empty apartment is hell. I really think nobody at the company understands some of the basic technical things about games like camera and movement.
I could never figure out the controls. Pressing the analog stick to the right will not move you character to the right (like every 3d game since Mario 64). You may think its like Resident Evil 1... the camera angle has no effect on controls ie if you hit right, your character will turn in the direction of their right hand, even if that means they're actually moving leftward on the screen. No, thats not the case either. I think the controls are tied to the camera's height, position in the room and angle to the characters. The game prides itself on cinematic camera angles, which look nice, but are just hell to navigate.
If they can at least fix the controls, I think a niche group of people will really enjoy this game. Indigo Prophecy's storyline was legitimately mature (think R rated like Silence of the Lambs and not R rated like Starship Troopers or Animal House). It fits well with the PS3 and all the "4D" claims since Heavy Rain isn't really its own game genre, its like its own form of interactive entertainment.
However, I think the current state of the gaming industry won't really allow this title to be a "success" unless they expect really low sales (like 300K or less). I think you'd get higher sales advertising on sites about novels and indie films than you would at a site like IGN or Gamespot. And in all honesty, I think people who are into that type of stuff are more likely to own a Wii than PS3 or 360 (they'd rather spend there money on stuff other than video games and probably look down on games... but they played a Wii once and it was fun enough and cheap enough to merit a purchase).
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