Asura's Wrath is an experimental game by Capcom and CyberConnect2 that perfectly blends playing a video game and watching television. This title, which takes inspiration from and liberties with Hindu, Buddhist, and other mythologies, puts the player in control for well less than half of its approximately ten hour run time (including a few downloadable chapters.) Unlike other recent popular interactive movies such as The Walking Dead and Heavy Rain, Asura's Wrath is less Hollywood and more anime, in both content and structure.
Each of Asura's 18 base episodes open with credits scrolling over the action, have mid-show bumpers where commercials would go, and end with "Next time on Asura's Wrath" sequences. Unlike many interactive movies, Asura's Wrath foregoes adventure game sequences and focuses on pure, nonstop action. It's a combination that doesn't sound like it would work, but I was happy to be proven wrong; in spite of some missteps with how it was published, Asura's Wrath is a relentlessly insane joyride and there's really nothing else like it.
