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Video Blips: Binary Domain, Armored Core 5, Final Fantasy 13-2, and more

Video Blips: Binary Domain, Armored Core 5, Final Fantasy 13-2, and more

I wonder how humanity constantly falls for the "hidden android" motif in science-fiction stories. Robots tend to paint a giant bullseye on their backs with their fits of the crazy.

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• Binary Domain's perception of starting the workweek involves someone shredding his face amid the opulence of a corporate lobby. It's like a microcosm of the relationship between plastic surgeons and dissatisfied customers.

Continue after the break for the multiplayer mechanical mayhem of Armored Core 5, the lavishly detailed timesinks of Final Fantasy 13-2, and toying with Darth Vader's patience in Kinect Star Wars.

 

• Armored Core 5's multiplayer places the reins of blocky weapons-laden robots in the hands of you and your buddies. If I live long enough to witness bouncing mechs laser-carving their insignia against the side of a building, I'll probably flee in terror while cheering with blind nerd joy.


• Final Fantasy 13-2's optional activities provide sufficient distraction from saving the world using oddly shaped weapons. The apocalypse can wait. I'm hitting the slots.


• This Kinect Star Wars trailer signifies the admittedly entrancing lightsaber sound in the most ridiculous way possible. "Swing and a miss" couldn't be a more perfect taunt for Darth Vader.