Heavy Rain for PS3

[Slothy]

Why oh why aren't the graphics so noticeably better on these new consoles? (Don't try and tell me they are. They're not.)

Have you actually played a proper next-gen game?

Games like Fight Night Round 3, Oblivion, VF5, are all a massive improvement over the previous gen in a lot of ways (except maybe character models in the case of Oblivion. Theirs were terrible). Nobody can honestly look me in the eye and tell me these games aren't the same sort of graphical leap. Hell, you can see the Fighters pores in Fight Night.

With regard to the Heavy Rain demo; everything about it looks great; the character model, the environment, and the character animation, with the noticeable exception of facial animation. The people commenting that the facial animation, in particular the mouth, looked wierd are dead on. Her mouth isn't moving enough when she forms words, and aside from the eye lids, it looks like they aren't animating many other muscles in her face. That said, that stuff is some of the hardest to do, and the only time I've ever seen realistic facial animation done convincingly is Half-Life 2. I'm still intrigued to see the final game though and what it's like. Hopefully they manage to tweak the facial animation into something more convincing.