In an interview printed in this week’s edition of Famitsu magazine, Toshihiro Nagoshi — the world-renowned director of the Yakuza series for Sega — gave the first word on the new game his studio’s working on. It’s called Binary Domain, it’s being made for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and apparently it’s a bit of a change of pace for the game producer.
According to Nagoshi, Binary Domain will be a science-fictiony game involving robots, with most of the gameplay centered around online combat. The game is being produced with the international marketplace in mind, but the game itself takes place in Tokyo circa 2080, and Nagoshi was quick to point out that the game does not mean he’s turning his back on Japan’s gamers.
Gameplay details were extremely scant in the interview, sadly. Nagoshi stated that Binary Domain is his shot at making online gaming as fun as possible, with enemy AI that’s more complex than anything his studio has attempted before and gameplay that emphasizes teamwork between characters. The visuals accompanying the article were mostly cutscene shots and the like, but one gameplay-like scene showed action from a third-person shooter perspective, not unlike what Nagoshi and crew are doing with Ryu ga Gotoku Of The End.
