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A couple of weekends ago I saw the “new” Total Recall movie. The movie itself wasn’t to interesting and I felt it needed more robots being destroyed. I found myself later purchasing a copy of Binary Domain to get my fix for robotic destruction. Binary Domain can easily be described as Sega’s attempt at combining Mass Effect with Gears of War, which are two game series I really enjoy. Much like Mass Effect, you get to decide who will join your squad from of a small selection of characters and customize a few of their stats while keeping the gameplay simple.  As with Gears of War you use a cover system and can pick up enemy weapons.

What You Need To Know

Binary Domain is a third-person shooter that takes place in the year 2080 where global warming has caused world-wide flooding, leaving many of the cities uninhabitable. New cities have been built on top of the old and science has progressed in building robots to help with everyday life. In Binary Domain you play as Dan Marshall, an ex-spec ops solider, who has been assigned to an international team known as a Rust Crew, which specialize in destroying robots. Dan’s mission is to locate the person responsible for building robots indistinguishable from people — known as Hollow Children. This is in direct violation with the New Geneva Convention that banned research into robots that could pass for human.

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