Molyneux praises "involving" 'Heavy Rain'

Peter Molyneux has labelled PlayStation 3 adventure Heavy Rain "the future of video games".

The Fable designer and creative director for Microsoft Europe praised the title at a SXSW conference earlier this week.

"I recommend anyone who wants to start to see the first glimpses of the future of video games to go out and buy it," he told the audience, according to Joystiq.

"But, personally, I could not bring myself to play more than 90 minutes [at a time], because the world that was there was so dark and so emotionally involving I felt emotionally beaten up.

"But there's no question in my mind that games like Heavy Rain… have a new fidelity in the way that they present their experiences. Obviously made with cinematography and motion capture in mind, [they] can really show the way forward to a new form of entertainment, which is evolving the story and choices and consequences."

He added that the quick-time events are "fantastic" and several aspects of the game are "really revolutionary".

Heavy Rain was released earlier this month.