Betrayer review: Amazing atmosphere isn't enough to save this odd shooter

April 13, 2014

My longbow is cracked. It's nearly worthless in this state. It's also the only thing standing between me and an army of Spanish conquistadors, hell-bent on my blood. An army that may or may not be in my mind. "I haven't seen anyone except you on this island," the woman in red tells me. She also might be fictional. I'm not sure. After all, can you really trust your instincts once you've started speaking with ghosts?Holiday in Roanoke Loosely based on the "lost" colony of Roanoke, Betrayer is a first-person game set in the early 1600s. Betrayer is best in its early hours. You awake on a beach, your ship wrecked off the coast. This is a lush land, a forested land, albeit one rendered in stark black and white. As you meander down the forest path (the only way forward) you spot a woman in red on a nearby cliff. She fires an arrow towards you, a letter attached to it—"I do not know who you are or why you've come here, but you should turn back lest you become trapped in this place as I am."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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