Binary Domain puts players in the middle of a fast-paced and intense battle for humanity in robot-invaded 2080 Tokyo. Fighting through the derelict lower levels of the city, players control an international peace-keeping squad that soon starts to question their surroundings and the choices they made.
GenreOther Shooters
Platforms xbox360
DEVELOPER Sega | PUBLISHER Codemasters | RELEASE DATE
Binary Domain Reviews xbox360
videogamer.com review
It’s a shame, because early cutscenes set the tone for a tale that has something to say about the nature of playing god and what it means to be human – not to mention dabbling in issues of race – but too often it pulls its punches. You sense that Nagoshi is holding back a little, tempering his traditional storytelling approach thanks to commercial considerations. Some will be pleased that his Yakuza excesses have been curbed, but you sense that Binary Domain is often most interesting in its longueurs; the action is reliably solid, and occasionally spectacular, but it’s in its quieter moments where it differentiates itself.
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oxm.co.uk review
There’s a multiplayer component to push play hours into double digits, but maps and unlocks are thin on the ground and the modes are a familiar bunch – co-op wave defence, various flavours of objective capture and no-frills deathmatch. Modern Warfare addicts will probably bounce off. This is very much a single-player pick, and the game Terminator wishes it could be.
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eurogamer.net review
Sega is a company cursed by nostalgia, that prevalent and rather cruel notion that they’ll never make the amazing games they once did. Binary Domain doesn’t quite prove that wrong. But it gets damn close, and does enough to show the future may be bright indeed.
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ign.com review
Ironically, for a game about the eradication of androids posing as humans, Binary Domain is itself a form of replicant. It convincingly apes the mechanics and behaviours of the best shooters on the market, but its augmentations feel noticeably forced and artificial. Having said that, shearing through robots in a Neo Tokyo setting makes for a nice change of pace within a genre typically populated by alien antagonists and Eastern European enemies, and in all but name this is essentially the best Terminator game ever made. The voice command and trust systems are interesting experiments that yield slightly underdeveloped results, but ultimately Binary Domain doesn’t hang its hat on them – even without the gimmicks this is an enjoyable albeit derivative shooter that any self-respecting sci-fi fan should check out.
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gamesradar.com review
Fortunately, the game’s ambition (we’ll stop short of ‘delusions of grandeur’ because it does carry itself rather well) means it’s at least entertaining, if only to see what ludicrous scenario the characters will find themselves in next. You know the saying ‘if you aim for the moon and miss, you’ll still end up in the stars’? Well, this aimed for Vanquish and missed – but in doing so it at least made a decent Terminator game that’s better than any actual licensed Terminator game.
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