Wet PS3
Rubi is your Katana wielding heroin that just happens to also enjoy firearms as you plow your way through level after level of murder and mayhem in this action adventure from Bethesda Softworks.
Ratings:
Graphics & Audio: 18/25,
Gameplay: 15/25,
Creativity 17/25,
Fun 15/25
Total: 65/100
Wet for the PS3 is a single player adventure where you play a heroin in the form of katana wielding Rubi who is getting revenge for the death of her boss. Rubi watches as a deal goes bad and the person who hired her is killed so Rubi wades in all acrobatic like and guns down the opposition.
You control Rubi simply by moving around and using various button combinations to jump, slide and perform combination moves to foil the oppositions aim and return fire. You start with your pistols that have unlimited ammunition and move on to learn the use of your katana and other weapons as you progress through the campaign.
Wet is a single player game much like a Quentin Tarantino movie with plenty of blood, guts and gore which is alright for the most part. The hardest part of Wet is that repetition sets in rather quickly after you master moves but the fun is still there in working your way through level after level of enemies and boss fights.
Wet has four difficulty levels starting with a rookie don’t hurt me difficulty and going upward with an additional Golden Bullets specialty that is not a more difficult level but features a special one shot kill move. This difficulty is harder to stay alive in but does not have the same difficulties as the fourth level does.
Once starting into the game there are some short cinematic scenes and you’re off to learn your moves and start the mayhem and you do get right to the killing. Rubi has some basic moves and throughout the first few levels you learn more complex ones turning them into combinations but you mainly use a few easily used combinations as your main moves.
Killing is easily done with both the pistols and the katana but you also move on to better and larger weapons such as a shotgun and even a crossbow. Wet easily evolves into a shooting spree where you dash around small areas until all opposition is on the floor and then you move to the next area.
This may sound simplistic but after a few minutes of initial excitement and trying to catch the groove of the game you find it’s merely a lather, rinse, repeat process of gunning down or cutting down opponents. You progress through the story of Rubi going after the main boss who ordered the execution of the man who hired you but while the scenery may change the game is still the same.
You have a few changes in scenery like a car top chase as you race down a highway gunning cars and their occupants as they shoot at you or some interesting rooftop sequences. The game quickly becomes a routine of not only wildly shooting at enemies but of running around in circles till they are all dead.
Wet has a few things going for it in the rage and slow motion features but these have been played out better in other games and with more impact so using them here will be nothing new. The games graphics are fair to good but nothing we have not seen elsewhere for the PS3 version and audio is a bit lower than the usual decent standards I have seen on the PlayStation 3 system.
Controls are very well done with the Sixaxis controller actually working better than a mouse controller such as the Splitfish which is my main controller for first person shooters on the PS3. I found using the Sixaxis controller was actually better controlling Rubi than the controller mouse configuration did so you should be good to go with your basic controlelrs.
I was very interested in this game and having not played Stranglehold other than an opening preview scene was interested in this game that seemed quite like the John Woo one this has been compared with. Wet started out fairly good but with the lack of a real targeting system other than a few quick auto aiming features and the repetitive combat you have a decent game but not much more.
Wet is good for a few enjoyable hours of sword wielding gun toting fun but acts more like a solid rental than a PlayStation 3 collections mainstay.