While it's much more """boring""" in a fun/game sense, its story was much deeper, and the relationship between Sean and Daniel is wonderfully crafted.
I just finished episode 5, and I cried (thing that I very rarely do when reading/watching/playing a piece of fiction). Just because of this relationship. I just realised, after 5 episodes, how much I had grown attached to these two dudes.
It's an extremely touching tale of two brothers, and its treatment of serious issues (here, racism and xenophobia, and the theme of "whose fault is it: he who committed a crime, or the system that conditioned him to commit that crime?") is pretty well done for a video game.
Basically, it's a more "boring game" but a more interesting story with more interesting characters, imo.
(Sorry if my thoughts aren't clear, I'm still a bit shaken)