Quantic Dream challenged gaming conventions with Heavy Rain and David Cage indicates that he wants to do so again. After the studio gets through two upcoming games, he wants to challenge conventions of war games the same way Apocalypse Now and Platoon challenged conventions of war movies.
“I want to create a genre,” revealed Cage. “I want to convince more people that [emotional gaming] is a valid direction for the industry; to show them that this was not just one product, one story. It’s a format that can be used to tell any kind of story in any genre with any tone. I would really like the opportunity to work on a different type of game. I would love to see if what we discovered could be applied to a first-person shooter, for example.”
Still, two projects away is a long time and when asked if this new idea will ever come to pass, he said, “First person, I don’t know. 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. 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, he added. 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.”
Such an idea, if it came to pass, could challenge the conventions of standard war games. Cage said, “I think it would be an important way to evangelize [to] people. To say, ‘Look – if you get with more emotion and storytelling, it leads you to a more interesting experience. There is room for more than just games which get you with adrenalin.
Source: CVG