Guillaume de Fondaumiere, co-chief of French game maker Quantic Dream, has told CVG that criticisms of Heavy Rain's gameplay is unfair - and that the quick-time events are nothing to be concerned by.

Chatting at GamesCom he compared the gameplay to Shenmue, the critically acclaimed from Sega, stating that people are being unfair over the new adventure's 'QTE' elements.

"I think they're unfair.I think the QTE's we have in our game are very different from the ones even in Shenmue, which I also think was a great game," railedde Fondaumiere.

"All the trailers - that's me playing it. Everything we've shown so far, each screen, is all actions that you actually do. So it's one of the more interactive games that I've seen in many years."

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By Luke Guttridge