Heavy Rain creator considering a war game
War to get the emotional treatment by Quantic Dream
Quantic Dream boss David Cage has suggested that he would like to work on a war game once their two current projects are finished.
Cage wants to approach war and provide gamers with a more realistic and emotional experience rather than the traditional sterile run-an-gun experience it has become in games.
The Heavy Rain and Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy in the US) creator said: "First person, I don't know," he explained. "But a game about war is something I would like to do, just to see if we could get closer to the film side; not glorifying war, but talking about it from a realistic point of view."
He continued: "War is not fun - talking about what the people involved feel, how horrible it can be for them. This is something I think could be very exciting and very new for the games industry. When we talk about war, it's always a very 'cool' thing - you have these big guns and you kill loads of people. I would really like to take a different approach; to tell a story about politics [with it] or something a little more serious. I would like to use what we discovered in Heavy Rain in this fantastic medium of interactivity to say something meaningful. This is probably one of the next things I'm going to try."