Sega confirmed with hugs and kisses at Gamescom that Binary Domain will arrive February 14 and 17 in North America and Europe, respectively. The squad-based action game for Xbox 360 and PS3, by Yakuza creator Toshihiro Nagoshi, allows players to command their team via controller or voice commands.
Speaking of the voice commands, which still have some lag to work out before launch the publisher admitted. During our Gamescom presentation today we learned that professing love for your female squad mate in the middle of a battle against a robotic army won't be appreciated, indicating there are some nifty Easter Eggs to be found in the voice commands.
We'll admit that the premise of Sega's new cover-based shooter Binary Domain by Yakuza boss Toshihiro Nagoshi -- man versus machine -- isn't the most immediately compelling, but this new trailer makes its nuances sound pretty cool. That is if you can get past the absolutely bored-sounding narrator.
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This is the story of Binary Domain, a cautionary tale of a rise of the robots wrapped around a cover-based, third-person shooter. It's a game I was pretty neutral on after playing at E3 2011, but potentially good sci-fi fodder. More »
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Of the many, many violent shooters on hand at E3 2011, one of the few I chose to play was Sega's Binary Domain. It is not as awe-inspiring as BioShock Infinite or Battlefield 3, but it did at least two things that made it memorable. More »
Robots have taken over Tokyo in the year 2080. Is anyone surprised? These evil machines want to do away with humans and all of their silly emotions. Little do those robots know, those emotions will either save or doom a mission to take by the city...
It's been a few months since we heard anything about Binary Domain, the sci-fi shooter from the Yakuza team. Sega has now situated the game in time -- a time other than its year-2080 setting, that is -- providing an "early 2012" release window.
The trailer after the break introduces the story, in which humans in a futuristic Japanese megalopolis fight against murderous androids who have infiltrated society. Sure, the gameplay's totally different, but we're going to pretend for now that this is the Snatcher sequel we never got.
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Behold our first glimpse of gameplay from Sega's Binary Domain, a cautionary tale in which humanity must fight for survival against the highly advanced robots we created with our own hands. I bet Watson is behind this. More »
