Binary Domain is a third person shooter created by Toshihiro Nagoshi, best known as the father of the Yakuza series. Released worldwide in February 2012, Binary Domain feels like an expansion and refinement of the gunplay found in 2011's Yakuza: Dead Souls, though Dead Souls wasn't released outside of Japan until after Binary Domain was already out everywhere else. Like the Yakuza games, Binary Domain is character-driven narrative with a lot of time spent in cutscenes or conversing with your partners, but its gameplay is pure third-person shooter with arcade-style stage progression rather than Yakuza's open world dude punching. While it is a massive improvement over the gameplay of Dead Souls, Binary Domain lacks the heart that makes the Yakuza games so endearing, while also feeling downright primitive compared to Japan's best robot-based shooter, Platinum's Vanquish.
