So I decided yesterday that I'd play Binary Domain, (bought it on the Steam sales for cheap)
Turns out it's actually a really cool game... and on PC it looks quite pretty too, lol.
The beginning was a little boring, but it's pretty much just a prologue, after that it gets more fun... but it suffers from some pretty meh areas, such as the cast of characters not exact being amazing, except for a french robot called Cain, he's just brilliant and totally makes up for the others being pretty meh. The gameplay is pretty much like Gears of War, but not as sluggish, it's definitely solid though, and works really well. And you can equip these fragments that increase your stats, but it's sort of like playing tetris in the sense that they come in different shapes and you can only equip so many into a grid (... a 2x3 grid, lol), if that makes sense? You can also upgrade your primary weapon too, since you get money from killing enemies, and use it to spend on 'em, I suppose it's a nice touch, but meh.
What's more interesting about it though, is the story, I'm not gonna' explain anything really since I'm only about half way through (Apparently it's an 8-10 hour game), but basically, it involves lots of robots and some pretty cool (And numerous...) boss fights.
The AI is pretty good too, like, your team mates can complete objectives on their own if you just leave them, which to be honest is quite rare in games), and you can talk to them if you have a headset, although I chose to turn the voice commands off, since saying things like "Big Bo, Charge!" (Yeah, one of the characters is called Big Bo... he's black, and big, he's like Cole from Gears but MUCH bigger) feels... wrong. Anyway, the enemy AI is iffy since in some sections the plain lower tier robots can't aim for shit, whereas other times it's as if they're using snipers or something... but actually shooting the robots themselves is VERY satisfying, since you can shoot their weapon out of their hands, and they'll look around on the floor for a new one, or shoot their arms off and they just stand there like "Oh fuck", shoot one leg off and they'll hop around shooting you, shoot both off and they'll try crawling towards you and still be shooting... now, leave one with no arms and only one leg... the bastard will hop and dive into you! I even saw one pick another robots leg off (After it was shot off ofcourse) and run at me with it, holy fuck what. And if you shoot their heads off, they stay alive, BUT they turn on their group and open fire, it's pretty cool when you're up against lots of little ones and a big heavy with a gatling gun, shoot its head off and it'll spray 'em all down for you... and then die after like 10 seconds, but if you shoot at it, it'll open fire on you too, so you pretty much just leave 'em to do their thing, and let 'em die lol.
I'd definitely recommend the game after what I've played, and I'll be playing for another hour or two later on, and probably finish it tomorrow after work. Oh, but I'd recommend if you DO buy it, on PC atleast, to have a controller with you, I'm using a wired 360 controller, and the game plays SO much better than a KB/M set up...
... Wow, wasn't expecting to write that much, but it really is a cool game!
