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Gaming => General Gaming Discussion => Topic started by: CrazyT on February 22, 2012, 06:23:00 am
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Read the full review
http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/articles/121/1219065p1.html
A view interesting parts
The game also features a relationship system between you and your squad mates, which is affected directly by your actions during battle and your responses during each conversation. Be good to your squad and they'll obey your orders and offer tips for defeating certain enemy types; piss them off and they'll be less helpful in a firefight – ignoring your commands and being less proactive with their attacks.
It's an interesting idea, but it ultimately feels pretty superficial as you really have to go out of your way to get them offside, and unless you're a completely unreasonable jerk then chances are you'll lead a relatively happy band of brothers and sisters throughout. Even if you are a prick on purpose, it's not like your squad will ever up and leave you, and in terms of difficulty the experience doesn't really change noticeably whether your squad mates trust you or not.
Perhaps due to the incorporation of the trust and consequence system and the importance of the AI relationships to the gameplay, there isn't any co-op support for the main campaign, which is a shame. Instead, the multiplayer consists of the usual variants on deathmatches and capture the flag, as well as a Horde-inspired co-op mode called Invasion, which throws waves of increasingly challenging enemies at you and rewards your kills with currency to spend on weapon upgrades. It's all totally playable, but doesn't present anything new and is unlikely to threaten the established online shooter stalwarts.
Closing Comments
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.
Overall a pretty positive, well written review. The quoted part is probably the only real negative thing that is stated. The trust system seems silly in their opinion, since it's pretty unlikely you're gonna do the wrong things for it to go down. Something I rather expected early on.
A 7.5
Lets hope for better scores. To me this review seems to be more based around technicalitiez instead of the ammount of fun
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IGN just do my nut in with their piss poor marking down games for lack of co-op and on-line functions and comparing every game to COD or Gears of War .
That said the final game sounds solid and great and SEGA should really build on this now, with a bigger and more bad ass sequel. SEGA Japan needs to make more games along these lines to get back in with the die-hards
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IGN just do my nut in with their piss poor marking down games for lack of co-op and on-line functions and comparing every game to COD or Gears of War .
Have you played the demo? Comparrisons to Gears of War are pretty warranted....
Sounds like a good game. After the demo and its rather unintuitive interface, I was worried that it would score lower, to be honest.
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Have you played the demo? Comparrisons to Gears of War are pretty warranted....
Sounds like a good game. After the demo and its rather unintuitive interface, I was worried that it would score lower, to be honest.
I have the demo on both my PS3 (Jp demo) and the 360 (Pal English) . Like it or not its going to be compared to GOW just like Sonic was to Mario or Daytona with RR, Duke Nukem to Doom, Resident Evil to Silent Hill even in all cases they play really different from each other, while being in the same genre and sharing lots of game design Like I said before in the old Nerds days , the Team were very much fans of Gears of War and wanted to make a game like that and the team to their credit seem to have done the best GOW style game out of any Japanese or even Western developer , Quite frankly that's an amazing achivment for your 1st effort and the AI is some of the best to come out of Japan .
Lets hope SEGA builds on this, fix the odd flaw with a Huge Big Budget sequel and with games like this and Aliens Marines , PSO, New Sonic start to get its name back with the die hard games
Loved the demo and Zavvi have just shipped my copy out , shame I'm Nights all week and pretty much to bollocks to play the game
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I have the demo on both my PS3 (Jp demo) and the 360 (Pal English)
. Like it or not its going to be compared to GOW just like Sonic was to Mario or Daytona with RR, Duke Nukem to Doom, Resident Evil to Silent Hill even in all cases they play really different from each other, while being in the same genre and sharing lots of game design Like I said before in the old Nerds days , the Team were very much fans of Gears of War and wanted to make a game like that and the team to their credit seem to have done the best GOW style game out of any Japanese or even Western developer , Quite frankly that's an amazing achivment for your 1st effort and the AI is some of the best to come out of Japan .
Lets hope SEGA builds on this, fix the odd flaw with a Huge Big Budget sequel and with games like this and Aliens Marines , PSO, New Sonic start to get its name back with the die hard games
Loved the demo and Zavvi have just shipped my copy out , shame I'm Nights all the week and be pretty much to bollocks to play the game
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I finished the game and posted my quick impressions in the other threads.
If I gave it a rating it would be 9/10, the story is not up to Yakuza level (While being good for a shooter like this), and there is a lot of chase/on-rails sections, and some A.I issues, but other than that its wonderful.
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I finished the game and posted my quick impressions in the other threads.
If I gave it a rating it would be 9/10, the story is not up to Yakuza level (While being good for a shooter like this), and there is a lot of chase/on-rails sections, and some A.I issues, but other than that its wonderful.
you played the game on Normal or Hard?
from the demo Noraml is pretty easy for a pro player, i think anyone who's familiar with shooting games should start playing with Hard Difficulty.
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For the record its similarities to Gears of War were not cited specifically as a negative, it's just that the game didn't exactly push the genre forward like many felt Gears of War (or hell, Vanquish) did.
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7.5?
Cancelled my pre-order, defenestrated my Xbox 360 and PS3, wrote an angry letter to Sega Australia, bought a gun, shot a dog, turned myself into police so I would never have to play this trash.
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7.5?
Cancelled my pre-order, defenestrated my Xbox 360 and PS3, wrote an angry letter to Sega Australia, bought a gun, shot a dog, turned myself into police so I would never have to play this trash.
It gets worse.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/336475/reviews/binary-domain-review-a-brave-attempt-to-innovate-in-a-tired-genre-review/
7 out of 10
But the night is darkest before the dawn and I promise you, the dawn is coming!
http://www.videogamer.com/xbox360/binary_domain/review.html
8 out of 10
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Well Sega OBVIOUSLY bribed Videogamer.com... 8)
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Hijacking CrazyTails thread at gunpoint as the official Binary Domain review thread (To be fair, until we have an official thread, dumping all the reviews I've found here)
http://www.nowgamer.com/xbox-360/xbox360-reviews/1255784/binary_domain_review.html
7.9 out of 10
http://g4mers.pl/content.php?1023-Binary-Domain-Recenzja&s=ae605ae1e4b6a5f48e89ae178d50ca40
8 out of 10
http://playfront.de/test-binary-domain-roboter-gegen-menschen/
9 out of 10
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I knew that good reviews would come eventually. Binary Domain seems like the sort of game that will leave you blown away even if it wasn't technically the best game in it's genre out there. Just looking at the view cutscenes and footages I can see that it probably leaves an epic experience nonetheless.
If you want to change the thread name into "Official review thread", go ahead and hijack it bro
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I knew that good reviews would come eventually. Binary Domain seems like the sort of game that will leave you blown away even if it wasn't technically the best game in it's genre out there. Just looking at the view cutscenes and footages I can see that it probably leaves an epic experience nonetheless.
If you want to change the thread name into "Official review thread", go ahead and hijack it bro
Yeap, bit like Yakuza 1 I suppose, it did not seem like it would be either, but that storyline combined with most of the boss fights and action scenes, yeap neatly wrapped into a great experience.
And thanks for agreeing bro, I didn't want to fight you but you would have left me no choice! (Not that I would have won the fight, just saying)
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Two more reviews dropped in, word of warning, they contain spoiler images! Well I noticed the Official Xbox Magazine one had, its a spoiler that I saw in the trailers so thankfully its not something that bother med too much.
http://www.metro.co.uk/tech/games/891256-binary-domain-review-gears-of-robots#ixzz1nGZZeb1w
7 out of 10
http://www.oxm.co.uk/39133/reviews/binary-domain-review/?cid=OTC-RSS&attr=OXM-General-RSS
8 out of 10
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The Game is simple awesome and its SEGA at their best and that's talking other's idea's and mixing with SEGA own and giving their own spin on it .
This is the best 3rd Person action game after GRAW and Gears II and SEGA really needs to make a sequel to this and fix some of the small issues and do what EPIC did with Gears II - More epic and more bad ass with top level GFX polish
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More reviews, seems the game is a solid 8 or so out of 10 for most reviewers. Looks like multiplayer was a waste of resources but its a shame they need that for games these days, if it gave another 2 or more hours to the campaign I think we all know what we would prefer.
http://www.gamesradar.com/binary-domain-review/
7 out of 10
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-02-24-binary-domain-review
8 out of 10
http://spong.com/detail/editorial.jsp?eid=10110628&page=2
8 out of 10
Anyway, time to open up the official thread it seems, enough reviews I think!
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There are more ways to affect people's trust in you....
Accidentally hurting them in battle through crossfire and explosions. Sending them into a crapshoot and getting them hurt. Telling them to charge then staying back and letting them thin out the enemies for you at their expense. Telling other team mates to heal people.
Stuff like that. And when their trust gets low enough, they will start disobeying orders and not helping you when you need it. Like when you have a giant ass robot gorilla bearing down on you and the only way your staying alive is by running away. You can only get out of that mess by asking your team mates to shoot at it and draw it's attention. If they, say....disobey you, well, your right fucked.
So I wouldn't say it's completely superficial. It punishes players who are careless and use their squad as a means to an end rather then treating them as people. It helps feed into a story that is about comradery and team work, and helps you actually care about the characters. So I wouldn't say it's completely superficial. Though more probably could have been done with it. I don't believe you can get alternate cutscenes in accordance to your team mate's trust level, right?
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Destructoid gave it a 7.5/10
http://www.destructoid.com/review-binary-domain-222782.phtml
Note that Jim Sterling (yeah that asshole) isn't really a big fan of the genre, so from him this is really good, especially considering gears of war got an 8. The actual followers of the website are aware of this, as can be seen in the comment section. So some of them are actually convinced. The written review itself is very positive
Binary Domain is yet another Japanese game based around mainstream Western design, a cynical idea that usually leads to terrible abortions such as Quantum Theory. Yet this cover-based squad shooter bucks convention and delivers something not only competent, but fun and original.
In a distant future where rising sea levels have destroyed much of the old world and sent the wealthy into sprawling aerial cities, robotics have taken center stage as the most important scientific endeavor. Needed to replace the millions left behind in flooded slums, robots have been used to serve, build, and police the streets, leading to a series of strict worldwide rules about their creation. The most important rule is Clause 21 of the New Geneva Convention -- robots cannot be indistinguishable from humans. So guess what happens!
Binary Domain's plot never gets in the way of the action, and while it certainly throws up some interesting ideas in the same vein as A.I. Artificial Intelligence, it doesn't ever gain a huge amount of steam, feeling rather bolted onto the side of the experience rather than fully integrated. It doesn't help that Binary's story does too good a job of making the humanoid robots sympathetic, so that by the time the bad guy revealed his end game, I was on his side. Still, it's a plot propelled by a genuinely likable squad of sarcastic soldiers, and full of bizarre twists that could give even Hideo Kojima a run for his money.
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