Not my genre, but given the increased HW resources (crucial for interactive movies, as they increase realism and also allow to offer more possible choices that are always limited compared to games richer of freedom) and the experience they accumulated ever since, unless they do something horribly wrong, it should at least beat their previous attempt at this kind of game, Fahrenheit aka Indigo Prophecy.
I won't buy a PS3 for this game, but what I read about it up until now interested me more than Fahrenheit.
Maybe next gen, bigger HW resources and the experience gathered from MMOGs' huge persistent worlds, where developers and maintainance crew must keep them coherent and enjoyable despite the unpredictability of tens thousand human players, will allow Heavy Rain's realism AND open worlds freedom together, with interactive movie parts limited only to some crucial events essential to the plot.







