When BD came out it was the era of brown and bloom, so something with normal colors was refreshing.KnightoftheWind wrote: ↑ April 30th, 2023, 16:48Finally decided to play Binary Domain, a game some consider to be "underrated". It's a third person military cover shooter released during a time when those sorts of games were a dime-a-dozen, and the game doesn't leave a great first impression. You play as military dudes doing military dude things, but thankfully the dialogue in this game is enjoyable and often quite funny. Your Based Black Man partner character is a surprising highlight. The game has a heavy sci-fi theme, and the crux of the story is the appearance of realistic human-like robots that don't even know they're robots.
Which also leads to the biggest difference between this and all the other military shooters of it's day; you aren't fighting human enemies, all the enemies are machines and they come in different colors and sizes. You can dismember their legs which slows them to a crawl (literally), or blow off their heads which confuses and causes them to fight amongst themselves. An interesting idea, but that mechanic isn't all that useful once you upgrade your primary weapon enough. The other new feature is the ability to talk to your teammates and respond to their dialogue IRL via your microphone. The game gives you certain prompts that you can say, and that will register in-game. I couldn't use this feature as I don't own a headset, but it sounds neat. Of course the game gives you the option to bypass this and just use your controller or keyboard to respond.
Other than these two aspects, the gunplay itself is decent enough but my main issue with this game is that it goes on for too long. The developers constantly have you shooting the same bots over and over again, and bullet sponge bosses that outstay their welcome after the 15+ minutes you spend fighting them (no joke). The story begins to lose steam quickly as you are faced with these onslaughts, and they never stop coming. You kill 100 robots?, well sorry chud but here comes 200 more via helicopter in the next cutscene!. This is one of those games I feel needs a proper remake so that it's concepts and ideas can be better realized, and in a more unique way. The game screams seventh generation PS3/Xbox 360 title, from it's visual style down to it's gameplay. My score is a 5/10, it's average.
I did have a headset but I could hardly get the voice commands to work.
I also found the game overlong (didn't finish) and the robots too bulletspongey.