The game is also severely lacking in goals. Putting the two together looks odd, to say the least, and the bland, generic soundtrack doesn’t do the game any favors aesthetically, although you can play your own music. The little traceur is done up in a blurred watercolor style with very realistic movement, while the background looks like a bad Simpsons imitation. Visually, iTraceur is a mixed bag, because while the parkour animations are very cool, they are stylistically at odds with the uneven cartoonish background. You can’t die or even hurt yourself, even falling from a tall building, so while fear of death or injury shouldn’t hinder you, I might hesitate to share this game with impressionable youngsters. That said, the controls are fussy at best, so you will also spend a lot of time falling off things and having to retrace your steps constantly. It’s worth mentioning that the levels are massive, so you can spend a lot of time investigating every nook and cranny. You’ll usually have the option of walking past a tree or building or climbing up the side of it, and either choice will lead to different areas to explore. Using these buttons in various combinations allows you to launch your red hoodied traceur into a variety of jumps, rolls, and climbing positions.Įxploring and finding your own way is a major part of the action, so don’t expect a clearly defined path. You have six buttons, three on each side: left and right in their respective corners, along with an angled up and down button for each. ITraceur – Parkour/Freerunning Platform Game is effectively a platformer with a jazzy control scheme. A traceur is a male practitioner of parkour, and since men make up the majority of parkour and video game enthusiasts, it’s no surprise that someone set out to combine the two. In theory, the purpose of parkour is to get from point A to point B as efficiently as possible, but in practice, this usually translates to a lot of jumping, climbing, and sliding with as much style as possible. For the past few years, largely thanks to Casino Royale, parkour has been steadily gaining ground as the latest and greatest physical activity since man learned to walk upright. If you think the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, then you clearly don’t watch enough James Bond flicks.
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