Indigo Prophecy was being shown on an arcade machine at E3, and clearly this is no mouse-driven, by-the-numbers experience here. The standard inventory is missing as well. Instead, usable items automatically become "concept icons". By selecting the appropriate icon, you use an item as you need it rather than stashing them in a bottomless bag. How you use them is intuitive and lifelike.

We played the console version of the game using a standard gamepad, and it's still unclear exactly how the PC control scheme will be handled. What we do know is that the movement and actions of the main character will follow the player's input in two ways. One way is called the Motion Physical Action Reaction (MPAR) interface, which allows the player to simulate the same movement as his character on screen, creating what Quantic thinks will be a physical identification between the player and character. Then there's the Physical Action Reaction (PAR) interface, which is used during mini-game action sequences, where the player has to move the controls in the proper direction in order to succeed.