Molyneux recommends you buy Heavy Rain

Provides 'glimpses of the future of video games'.

Peter Molyneux, Lionhead boss and creative director of Microsoft Game Studios, Europe, has always been one to talk up the future of video games, but this usually means chatting about a new feature for one of his games. Not this time though.

Speaking at the South by Southwest festival during a one-on-one conversation with writer Frank Rose, Molyneux heaped praise on Sony Computer Entertainment and Quantic Dream's Heavy Rain.

"I recommend anyone who wants to start to see the first glimpses of the future of video games to go out and buy it," said Molyneux. "But, personally, I could not bring myself to play more than 90 minutes, because the world that was there was so dark and so emotionally involving I felt emotionally beaten up."

His brief time with the game certainly left a strong impression.

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

He added: "I have to take my hat off to [Quantic Dream] ... There's a couple of things they do in that game which were really revolutionary, and what they do with quick-time is fantastic."

We couldn't agree more. See why you really should go buy Heavy Rain by checking out our review.

Via Joystiq