Life beyond death!!! (in a game)

David Cage, director of Heavy Rain, said that the game can continue even if the main character dies! wooow!!! This is the best sign i’ve seen from the games industry in years! for many years i’ve been hoping that games will break away from books/movies and stand out in what only they can do, nonlinearity… and this is one of the ways. how very very cooool!!!

From the videogaming247.com article

“I can’t really tell you too much about what the story’s about or how it’s going to work with the characters, all I can tell you that your character – the main character – can die, and the story will continue,” said Cage in a back-room demo the day after the conference.

“You can continue to play, without this character, of course.”

Cage was asked if this meant the player would move into a side-story if the leading character died.

“No, no,” he said. “It’s one big story.”