Cage: 'Heavy Rain more than a game'

Quantic Dream's David Cage has claimed that the studio's forthcoming Heavy Rain is more than just a game.

In an interview with Destructoid, the exec said that gamers will be treated to a new type of entertainment experience when the title launches early next year.

"Heavy Rain is not a video game anymore in my mind because it breaks with most of the traditional paradigms, but it's fully interactive," he said. "If the format becomes successful, we will probably have to find a different name for this type of experience."

Cage went on to say that the project's emphasis on storytelling means that it defies categorisation. "Heavy Rain is about playing with a story almost in a physical sense, changing it, twisting it, discovering it, making it unique, making it yours," he added.

"Using the term 'interactive movie' to describe Heavy Rain has been a tricky question from the beginning. It is in many ways what Heavy Rain is - a visually told story that the player can affect by his actions."

An official release date for Heavy Rain is yet to be announced, but rumours have suggested that it will arrive in February, 2010.