By Sam Coles:
If you were around during the Xbox 360 and PS3 era you’ll
remember that the third person cover based shooter was really popular with the
success of Gears of War with other games trying to emulate its said success.
You don’t see them around as much these days as the open world genre has become
the default template for developers. However there was a unique hidden gem on
the 360 and PS3 called Binary Domain with an interesting story and good squad
based gameplay from the same developers who made the Yakuza series.
Binary Domain takes place in the distant future where the
world has been overflowed with water and the human race created robots to help
rebuild society. The governments around the world had to make a new Geneva
Convention for robotics where militaries and corporations are not allowed to
make robots that mimic humans. These are dubbed hollow children where they look
like humans but are robots underneath, however they don’t know they are robots
and are completely clueless. A hollow child ends up attacking people and a team
is sent in to Japan to extract a man who is known for manufacturing the hollow
children. A team of different Special Forces from the US, China, France and the
UK are sent in to clean up the mess.
At first you would think “oh no it’s another generic third
person shooter from the 7th generation”. Yes it does seem fairly standard
at first but it sprinkles different mechanics to make it stand out from the
crowd. You have a trust mechanic with your squad and how this works is that
they will trust more if you give them specific responses during dialogue and
this in tandem will make them respond to you more efficiently in battle.
However if you give them a poor response or shoot them they will lose faith in
you, this is good most of the time but it can be a pain as your AI team mates
have a habit of getting in the way during firefights which can be aggravating.
The shooting is satisfying in this game as when you shoot an
opponent their body parts just explode into shrapnel as you’ll be fighting
robots. It can be used to your tactical advantage targeting different body
parts such as arms where they can no longer use assault rifles to blowing their
heads off which disorientates them and they end up turning on their allies.
The presentation is beautiful with excellent animations from
the character models coupled with the environments which take a Blade Runner
style with atheistic with fantastic rain effects at the start of the game. The
game does struggle with the frame rate in some parts especially with the giant
robot boss battles as they do take up a lot of the screen as they send hundreds
of missiles your way but it doesn’t happen too often.
I was pleasantly surprised with Binary Domain it’s an
interesting shooter with a good narrative and great gameplay. It’s a super
cheap game these days I picked up my copy for 99p so you’re getting more than
your money’s worth so pick it up if you have the chance.
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