Binary Domain

I am so down bad for cain dude I got solid like a diamond when I was fighting Gorilla and Cain was complimenting me half the time with Your Aim Is Tres Bien Monsieour

Entertaining game from Yakuza game makers :)

a forgotten gen in the sand

It's a pretty decent game with a cool host of characters voiced by some big hitters. I just had that you have to edit the settings before getting into the game instead of just doing it right on the main menu. I also never got the voice chat feature to work at all. Overall cool experience with some cool boss designs. Catch this on sale!

The game is not bad but I wanted to warn players about those few small details:
I played 1h and got frustrated so many times because everything is SOOOOO F§°#§ING SCRIPTED:
- you run in corridors and shoot at enemies which won't die with multiple shots in the head ;
- half of the time you do EXACTLY what the game tells you to do. You can't shoot, run or even move until the game tells you "ok, now you can" ;
- you need to talk to the game with your mic but it doesn't work very well and I don't want to talk to a game ;
- stuff like "the characters will wear their masks to swim but not when they are shot at" ;
- I hesitated between easy and normal, chose normal and it is way too easy ;
- things happen by strange coincidence, like you are fighting a big robot and OOOOOH, THANK YOU THE BUTTON THAT MAKES HEAVY METAL BARS CRUSH IT ;
- if you move a platform to make a bridge but you don't go to the very last pixel, you won't be able to cross ;
- every time the tutorial tells me to push a button, is says "Press M", no matter which button I need to push ;
- if you shoot at something but the game isn't ready, you will waste your ammo ;
- what I forget.
Play the game because it is fun but be aware of all that.

Update: after an additional hour I decided to uninstall the game because all of the above get worse over time.
Got stuck in a door, couldn't fight a boss because my teammates couldn't destroy drones which are very easy to destroy, my teammates yelled at me "COME, OVER HERE" but I couldn't find them, or the yelled "HURRY!" but the game only allowed me to walk and not run.... anyway, it's an old story now.

From AI thinking its human to robots getting pregnant. This game is a fun ass game published by sega and the gun play is fun as well. 10/10

If Gears of War had squadmate relationship mechanics. Pretty solid title for the uncommon Japanese Third-person Shooter. The Robot is the coolest character and hardest to befriend.

It feels ugly calling this retro, but it is. Great game, controls were terrible with mouse and keyboard, story was cheesy, but that's exactly what I wanted.

Good story and gameplay

its a cool game it gives me memories

A hidden-gem to be sure. Binary Domain is one of the best third-person shooters you've probably never played. A solid 8/10 and frequently goes on sale, so it's a safe purchase as far as I'm concerned.

Pros

• Fantastic weapon variety and a cool take on alt-fire for your primary weapon, with upgrades that feel substantial.
  
• Huge roster of squad-mates. You'll end up with favourites, for sure. Mine were Bo, Faye and Cain.
  
• Meaty combat, benefited by the robot limb stripping system which rewards you for destroying robots' weapon arms and heads.
  
• Interesting story, delivered in the hammy bombastic fashion the devs of Yakuza are known for, but delivered with sincerity that makes it palatable.
  
• Great music, when you can hear it. Mixing is weird in this game, sometimes the music drowns out dialogue, sometimes the opposite.
  
• Diverse range of choices. I was able to keep loyalty with a shaky squadmate, avert one's betrayal, and stopped one from being killed off. I didn't expect rpg-like elements in a tps, but it works here, as does the voice command system. I used keyboard inputs as opposed to my microphone, but it's a novel concept.
  
• Chapter select per section is great for replayability & revisiting favourite parts of the game.
  
• It has Cain. We need more Cain.
  

It's a sci fi cover shooter from the guys who made Yakuza. Buy it

It's still fun despite its age.

I played with a controller and it went really well.

The social mechanics during fights make you want to take risks and impress your teammates, sometimes you get called out for being stupid but they are easily impressed and praise you most of the time.

Too bad we'll never get a sequel.

This game may be old but its a fun arcade-ish shooter. Reminds me of the old resident evil games.

I would have kept playing this game if the companions weren't so annoying, all the time saying "you could have done better" even when you killed every single enemy on the screen. Seriously, what the hell was that?

A very strange and not well known third person shooter from the early 2010s, 7/10 shooter that's only worth checking out on heavy discount.

Binary Domain plays exactly like the shooters of that time, third person cover based, linear levels, set pieces, generic military protagonist with a personality of a wet noodle, shooting gauntlets, turret/chase sequences and some shocking QTE prompts that pop up thankfully not that often because damn are they lightning fast.

The highlight of the game is the definitely the shooting parts :) Shooting robots in this game can be quite fun and satisfying blowing off each individual parts de-limbing robots and seeing scrap go everywhere so much that your fps tanks after an explosion, good robot variety aswell keeps the encounters varied and not too tedious to go through, bosses are a hit and miss some were fun at the beginning but slowly degrade towards the end and just become bullet sponges sadly, making some sequences ( that damn gorilla ) a slogfest to get through.

The companion system albeit basic is a nice feature to this game and makes playing with the different characters fun and varied, some are more fleshed out than some others though so I felt forced to pick certain ones to get better dialogue/ scenes for a more interesting playthrough. There is also a trust system that actively effects your relationship with your companion when you have them in your party, this can either make them like you or hate your depending on your choices of dialogue to them or committing friendly fire :)

The story is a fun time, dumb but entertaining cutscenes with some funny dialogue and good set pieces, apparently the Yakuza developers made this game and it shows with its Japanese influence in some of the scenes, main plot focused on the presence of AI and how it effects the human race, very prevalent when playing today and has a few twists and turns in the story.

fun and goofy, would recommend as long as ya dont mind fixing the fucked up controls on start up

nc game

This game is a very big mixed bag for me.
sometimes its fun but then it throws a needless qte at you. i've died so many times to those.
the weapons are neat and the characters are fun.
but to whoever approved and made the gorilla segment of the game? fuck you. i hope that every time you put on your shoes, theres a lego in them waiting for you. I hope that whenever you turn on your car the "check engine" light appears for you.

i hate you with a passion.

wack ass game from the creators of the yakuza/like a dragon series, really good if you want a cover shooter with the first actually good squad controls ive ever used
heavily recommend giving it a go on sale (it goes down to like 3 dollars its nuts) though do install the mouse fix on github to make the game playable

RGG Studio's hidden gem.

was alright

One of the masterpiece that i feel like it got thrown under the rag, i dont even know this game existed and only discovering it randomly when doing a doom scroll on youtube-short

ps: camera movement sometime feels a lil bit too clunky, but maybe thats only happening on mouse, not affecting the gameplay that much tho

While it features large amounts of misogyny and some truly trite dialogue, there's a lot to like about the quirky Binary Domain.

The third-person cover shooting feels very Sega with outlandish setpieces, a truly barmy plot and satisfying game mechanics that tie everything together. Outside of the robot Cain, the characters are instantly forgettable, all based on cliched tropes that we've seen dozens of times before in these sorts of games. Mechanically it's excellent though with a solid range of weapons, a fairly solid cover mechanic and slick shooting. Less effective is the voice-control system that feels rather limited and doesn't give you many options during play. Luckily your AI allies are intelligent enough and rarely cause you to die.

Binary Domain really excels thanks to its phenomenal robot design, imaginative bosses and varied play mechanics. Yes it's probably just a 7/10 game, but it's the best 7/10 game you'll probably ever play.

It was fun and I enjoyed the story. Lots of cool big robot bosses. Got this on sale so it was well worth the small price.

Binary Domain is one of the best Gears of War Clone that i have ever play

Great story which feels particularly relevant in today's world of AI. I liked the trust mechanic, and satisfying gun play of dismembering the robots.

its good the qte are bullshit sometimes other then that its good

I liked this game because it was cool and awesome

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This is a neutral review.

Binary Domain is a mediocre sci fi shooter/action game where you have to save the world from over zealous AI. So the story is ok. The characters and dialogue are ok but nothing memorable. I liked how you can upgrade not only your gear ( main weapon, resistances, gadgets ) but also the gear of the companions.

It's not precise to define this game as FPS only. It's actually a hybrid between a shooter and an action game (Prince of Persia style). There are parts of the game where it plays like a classic FPS, and parts where you have to pass certain scripted action sequences. The game is non stop action. It never has a dull moment, so yes it's adrenalinic, but it's also frustrating. Why frustrating?

Because this is a console port. Binary Domain was primarily made for XBOX and Playstation, and later for PC. Combat, game mechanics and everything else are clearly optimized for consoles and for a game controler, and NOT for keyboard and mouse. That fact brings many little problems that are frustrating but luckily do not prevent game completion. Examples:
- the key buttons for sprinting and for taking cover is the same. Often when I would have to flee from a difficult enemy the main character would take cover over and over instead of running away from danger. Often it would mean defeat and re-loading.
- the key buttons for the special power and for reloading weapon is the same. That means everytime you want to use your special power the main character reloads the weapon, which consumes ammo very quickly. And ammo is limited of course.
- Some times in the scripted action sequences it wasn't clear what I had to do to pass them. The game didn't make clear enough what buttons to use ( it showed some strange symbols, maybe for game controllers ), so I would often frantically button mash until I would understand what is required of me. So the game mechanics and controls are poor, archaic.
- there is a fight when you are in control of a goliath robot and have to repel enemies that come from all sides. They didn't optimize mouse sensitivity well so it was very slow to turn the cannon 360 degrees. So I had to retry until I was able to find the right sequence of turning left or right in order to kill enemies before they killed me.
Those are just a few examples or how this game is not optimized for a PC.

I liked the game in the beginning, then when you hit midgame it practically becomes a non stop boss fight. Some boss fights are objectively hard and frustrating. They revolve around targetting the only weak spot the bosses have. And since the bosses move around quickly it's not easy to hit those spots ( and minions do spawn contantly ). There was especially one incredibly brutal boss fight that nearly made me quit the game. So I went to youtube to see the only way it can be done.

I also didn't like how the game experiments with voice commands. The companions from time to time ask you questions and the game expects you to answer vocally. But voice recognition wasn't implemented properly. You can switch to key button replies but it also doesn't work well, and you have limited time to answer. If you fail to answer you lose influence with companions, and influence is important story wise. You also lose influence if you accidentally shoot them - and that happened often, not because of my mistakes, but because they would often stand and run between me and the enemies. Also they get angry and decrease "faith" in you randomly if you don't play fights perfectly enough, which annoyed me.

To conclude, it's fun but also full of little frustrating imperfections due to it being a console port. It's also a little ridiculous how they blatantly copied many elements of Mass Effect 1.

good gaem

Great story with great characters, I wish there was a new game plus mode

Hidden Gem just wish it had more content

Good, old game.
Maybe yes or no.
for me, controller ain't work right(for whatever reason) running is some annoying cuz it bind the same key as walls cover, if run too close it will attach.
Npcs teammates always get it the way and curse at you when they got shot, can't loot the map in peace cuz they will hurry you up every 5 dam second or can even lose the trust level because of that.
Fun to play. online mode is no one play anymore I think? can't seem to match.

detroit become human but epic

Saw the "NI HAO" clip on YT, that line alone made me buy this game. The control might be a bit clunky but this game is very under valued to how good it is if you enjoy third person shooter with a lot of comedic slap among the team members, this game is for you, def a solid 8/10.

a very awesome game, i get to shoot robots arm and legs off

takes almost 1 hr to setup controller , and still doesn't work with controller some main bindings are not work,vibrations are also doesn't work. even sometimes you cannot play with mouse and keyboard don't waste your money in this one.finding numerous results on internet but none of those are worked,i brought this because i see his style is like gears of war but this game inputs are very bad maybe gear of war is gears of war none of game take his place.

Old but gold.

Awesome game

such a fascinating game made in such a weird time. im surprised it plays this well
i feel like i am doing archeology digging up a old high production game that got memory holed out of existence.
what makes this game so obscure? is it genuinely just a mediocre third person shooter from the gears of war era?

I don't think so, maybe this Is just one of those weird games I vibe with. Its kinda like the same feeling I get with vanquish, the lost planet games and earth defence force. its that feeling where somewhere in the late 2000's during japans culture boom you had these studios try to make something for the western market and the result is this interesting fusion of ideas where these two styles of gaming and aesthetics clash and that is just fascinating to me.

the actual game itself is pretty fun too, unfortunately there isn't much I can say about it but it all comes together when you are the one controlling it.

it made me get existential about the disappearance of art in the public consciousness, not the games fault its just that I feel bad playing something this interesting and well produced but at the same time its completely unknown and forgotten. well i noticed you binary domain, i appreciated you.


7.8/10

God I love this game, it's hilarious, fun, and awesome. I have nostalgia from the time of playing it in the PS3, it's still just as fun as before.

The way the robots get destroyed by part is really fun. You can shoot the legs off, the arms off, or the head off so that they attack friend and foe. Sadly the bosses are quite boring (on several you just stand around until someone brings explosives or something to handle them. Shooting them is a waste of bullets seemingly), and there could be a bit more enemy variety.

The game runs fine but if you play with controller you have to rebind the face buttons (ABXY) and turn on the setting to show the button prompts rather than keyboard ones.

brings back memories, simple fun action game

One of the best, most underrated shooters I've ever played, with great story and characters.
I really miss this era of gaming, they don't make these types of games anymore!

Good campaign, the guy does the robot, but wait

Great "popcorn" shooter with some customization and upgrade options for your crew, boss fights are all passable but some are truly great and a challenge to defeat, the Tsar Runner boss on the freeway chase was the highlight. The cutscenes are well done, as is the voice acting and the plot has several twists and turns with some dark and disturbing themes. You can also have some dialog options with your crew characters that affects the ending. The gameplay mechanics are repetitive, but the weapons, in particular the shotgun, are satisfying to use, wish there were more of them though in terms of not just lead throwers, some sci-fi beam and laser weapons would have been a cool addition. This reminds me of Gears of War a lot, but is a fun game in it's own right with its own feel and atmosphere. Worth picking up on sale, if you enjoyed Gears of War and Mass Effect you will definitely like this.

Excellent game, Wonderful story
I couldn't get the voice input to work for the life of me.

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