PS3 Tech Demo: Heavy Rain
 

It's basically a demo of what kind of real-time scenes can be done on PS3 (and 360 as well hopefully) of a game called Heavy Rain. It's incredible. By the guys who bought us Indigo Prophecy.

Heavy Rain

IGN Interview

I wonder if these realistic settings/models are going to start causing some mental issues with some people. If they just just keep getting better then it could be pretty sick to play a FPS, depending on the animations and effects.

It's one thing playing with block like characters but playing with realistic figures is a different experience.

By 2010 I would imagine that the line will be crossed where you can't tell if it's rendered or real.

Now, though, I can tell what's rendered and what's not. Models now, even in movies, look plastic to me. I can almost always pick out if something's rendered or not, no matter how advanced it looks.

JEsus, that was bad. Is it that hard to make rendered objects interact realistically with one another?

Human models still have a way to go with them (seeing as how they require so much in terms of light reactions) but object models have become very realistic.

I think if in-game models become so convincing that you hesitate blasting someone in an FPS it could really help sell a narrative. Not just with visuals, it helps if characters act alive. This vid is more next-gen to me than any flashy shooter on 360.

Indigo Prophecy fucking ruled.

I thought that tech demo was actually pretty good.