Quantic Dreams’ Guillaume de Fondaumiere said that the game will change the way players perceive the behaviour of characters in games. He also talked about bridging the gap between gaming and film.
“This performance is going to change people’s and gamers’ perception of how a character needs to behave in a video game. Probably, when people will see Beyond – other studios – they will want to have a great talent in their games, too, because we’re going to see a difference, and it’s going to be striking.”
Fondaumiere also explained that the success of Heavy Rain has made Hollywood talent more accessible to Quantic Dream, and bridges the gap between gaming and the film industry in new ways.
“Having produced Heavy Rain, and being able to show it to people, to show them that we were doing different experience, more a form of cultural expression – that opened the doors. And when I contacted the agents for collaboration [with] Willem and Ellen, it was relatively easy, because people had seen Hollywood in Heavy Rain, they had either played it or heard of it, so it made it much simpler for me than years before.”
