Though they sadly long ago hung up their hat as a console developer, Sega has been a good if not great third party software house for the past console generation. Lately they’ve been too hung up on trying to recapture the magic of Sonic, but I’m glad to see that they’re finally taking a gamble on a big budget new IP, the futuristic squad based shooter Binary Domain, which is due out at the end of February. This new big trailer just came out and I think this game looks pretty great.

It combines the body mod themes of Deus Ex: Human Revolution with the paranoid insecurity of Blade Runner and the sleek visuals of Alex Proyas’ I, Robot. It’s not the trailer and the story that have me really excited though, it’s the new “trust based” squad system they’ve implemented. Huge amounts of focus in the game are put into your in-game (not just dialogue tree) interaction with your squad, and apparently has complete bearing over how well your squad reacts to your orders, if it all. Sega claims this will transfer much of the emotional/story weight away from cutscenes and into gameplay (and based around your actions) and that sounds pretty great to me. C’mon leap day!

- Whole Milk