[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

Basically it plays exactly like Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy), assuming anyone here ever played that. And yes, there are standard quick time event things; in the demo you get into a fight with this one guy, but the good thing is even if you mess up, the fight contiues uninterrupted. I messed up a few times in that scene, continued fighting, got in some good shots at the guy, but then ultimately lost and... the game continued. Afterwards the dude you fight storms off, you pick yourself up and dust yourself off and presumably go hit the bar.

In fact from a story standpoint losing might actually garner more sympathy from the woman you're protecting, since you don't act like a douche after losing, and the very fact that you even tried to fight off the other guy shows you're a good guy.

Last game had a karma system that made you more or less depressed depending on what you did, (for instance, you could decide to NOT save a kid who falls through a frozen lake, because you might get caught by a nearby cop), so I'm assuming this one has something similar. You could probably not start the fight with that guy and the women might end up dead or something and whoops, there goes a possible source of info later. There will be tons of scenes like this.

Yeah, you can tell I'm more interested after playing the demo now.