Brutal, fast, visceral, entertaining… there’s no shortage of words to describe it traitor and the quality of experience it offers, and these are rarely difficult. If the title is heavily inspired by its models, paying homage to the fast FPS of yesteryear, it delivers crazy sensations while asserting itself level after level as a unique work that deserves to appear with its peers.
Hello, I’m here for my weekly memoir DOOMadaire!
Don’t see the pattern? Let me explain: hordes of ruthless demons are invading our plane of reality and slaughtering everything that moves. As a bonus, they obviously have more hairy and aggressive beings on their buttocks, which are from another dimension and not much more diplomatic than the first.
However, the Chaotic Legions will be out of luck as once again the only surviving human who can intervene is still not “Josie from Accounting” hiding under his desk. no It’s another super soldier, unable to feel fear or spell the word “pity,” who tumbles down from who knows where to gently point everyone in their place.
End of the pitch and beginning of the massacre.
You won’t feel the 30 levels the game has to offer as the frantic pace of the action will leave you barely breathing. Suddenly catapulted into a story whose scenario would be a post-it for an encyclopedia, we quickly understand that clearing areas full of enemies remains the main objective. Enemies joyfully echoing the bestiary of the demise Original. From minion to soldier, soldier to demon… your adversaries will use their numbers as you advance, never being able to stop you.
rest in peace
All dressed in pixels but benefiting from animations and light management perfectly matched to the graphics, traitor is a real treat to browse on PC as well as consoles. The verticality of the levels deserves a special mention, which is a joy to see as it is well exploited and makes you sniff around everywhere, looking for the slightest bump to climb there. You know, maybe there’s a bonus hidden above?
At the armor level, we feel the culture, experience and love of the developers for the genre. Pistol, shotgun, plasma rifle or even minigun machine gun, nothing is missing to blast your enemies to pieces, but each weapon benefits from a useful secondary fire depending on the situation. The gameplay, which is as enjoyable as possible, although it benefits from innovations such as the double jump, for example, which were absent from its famous ancestors, will always remind you of the 90s, but better. Much better.
Ask Gore, the lesson is perfectly preserved and sublimely restored. Floors, walls, ceilings, they will be everywhere and Your wanderings will rarely spare the landscape, which will quickly turn a crimson hue. If a dismemberment mechanism is in place, forget the efficient and surgical cutting of a plasma cutter Empty room. Here the procedure is performed with a four-barreled shotgun. It is dismembered to the maximum!
The green key in the green door, the red key in the red door
The course is fairly linear and the 3D map will help you not to get lost. The mechanics are familiar and everything is continuously or almost connected. Searching for different elements in the levels, such as ore shards or runes, will be the only brake on the carnage. They help you progress in the adventure or allow you to buy weapons or upgrades. Because yes, your massive destruction avatar can see interesting evolutions like the double jump or a very handy dash. Remember that ore shard you couldn’t get three levels ago? like that ! You have your solution. Without delving too far into Metroidvania, the levels contain many surprises for those who want to check it out, even if it means coming back to it later, but this is never essential to progress.. Well seen.
It’s impossible not to tell you anything about the soundtrack. Good big metal reminiscent of stains eternal doom or recently Hellsingers made of metal. Sometimes subtle, sometimes thunderous, the too-rare pieces that make up the musical atmosphere of the title hit the mark and will motivate you a little more to kill the smallest enemy who has the audacity to go head-to-head with you.
If the multiplayer mode has the merit of existing, it is very dispensable, which is not the case with the map editor. I could talk to you about this for hours as its potential is immense. Lifespan theme!
Enlarged by neo-retro graphics in pixels but with unexpected lighting effects, traitor isn’t yet another soulless indie pastiche happily pumping into the legacy of the best. It’s pure Doom-like like we don’t do anymore. A gory and jubilant adventure that goes as it should: without thinking and all the worse for the splatters. Take out the mops, it will come in handy.
accessibility criteria :
| visual impairment | hard of hearing | |
| ✘ High contrast (target reticle) | ✘ Subtitles with mood hints | |
| ✘ Font color size | ✘ Identification of the person speaking | |
| ✘ Tag enemies | ✘ Customizable font | |
| ✔ Customizable user interface | ✘ Customizable font color | |
| ✘ Customizable mini-map color | ✘ Alternative alarm options (vibration, flash…) | |
| ✘ Color blindness option | ✘ Ambient noise reported (presence notification) | |
| ✘ Text to speech option | ||
| ✘ Game slowdown |
test conditions
| TV details | 4K / WQHD | Game provided by the publisher | Not | |
| console | Xbox Series X|S / PC | Time spent in game | 29 hours | |
| difficulty level | Ultra Nightmare | game over | Oui |
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