You have squad members like a posh French robot named Cain, the gung-ho American special forces member nicknamed “Big Bo,” and a snooty British agent named Charles.ĭespite not really being a horror game, Binary Domain does a good job of using “horrific” imagery. The events of Binary Domain start after an android attacks the headquarters of a robotics company named Bergen in Detroit, Michigan, with the big catch being that the android thought it was human the whole time.īinary Domain obviously has some lofty narrative ambitions, and this setup leads to you taking control of Dan Marshall, a Nebraska-born special agent that serves as part of a “Rust Crew” for United Nations Security and is sent to infiltrate the Amada corporation in Japan, which breached the New Geneva Convention with its android attack in Detroit.ĭan is joined by specialists from around the world, all of whom are predictably stereotypical as you might expect from RGG Studio’s comedic style. SegaĪll of this eventually led to the passing of a “New Geneva Convention” that banned robots that could pass for humans.
Much of humanity has drowned as a result, which has caused tech and robotics companies to flourish, replacing large portions of the workforce with advanced robots.īinary Domain brilliantly uses the same “campy” tone the Yakuza games execute so well.
Taking place in the near future, Binary Domain’s version of Earth has been ravaged by the effects of global warming, causing large swathes of land to flood. It has its own flaws, but the further you dig the more you find a shooter with some fascinatingly experimental mechanics and a story that really goes to some thematically interesting places.īinary Domain was directed by Toshihiro Nagoshi, best known as the creator of the Yakuza franchise, and it’s a surprisingly prescient sci-fi tale. While Binary Domain’s box art and initial marketing might have painted it as a bog standard sci-fi shooter, that’s actually incredibly far from the truth. Instead, it was a wildly absurd sci-fi shooter called Binary Domain, which to this day remains the studio’s most criminally overlooked title.
Despite that laser focus, however, the developer has a vibrant history of varied games, and ironically the first game released under the “RGG Studio” moniker in 2012 wasn’t even a Yakuza game. Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio is utterly synonymous with the Yakuza series, especially seeing as the studio itself is named after the franchise.
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