Wet
About the Game
Rubi Malone calls herself a problem solver. Others would call her a mercenary. For enough money she does what she's told without asking questions and going over corpses to reach her goals. But one day a guy called Robert Pelham has the guts to double-cross her - a huge mistake.
Gameplay & Core Systems
The whole game is envisioned like a Grindhouse movie with scratches all over the screen, missing scenes, a high amount of blood and gore and a high focus on staged action scenes. Similar to John Woo presents Stranglehold , Wet is a third-person-shooter with a strong focus on acrobatic stunts. While Rubi can kill enemies with her assortment of four different types of weapons (two pistols with unlimited ammo, two shotguns, two machine pistols and two crossbows) just by walking around shooting, she doesn't do much damage that way and is very slow. Instead she needs to jump around, slide across the floor or walk on the walls which instantly slows down time until she touches the floor again. During these moves she can also use both of her weapons to target one enemy automatically while manually using the crosshair to target another.
Standout Features
- For every kill she makes she gets points and depending on how fast and how "stylish" she kills enemies, her points multiplier increases up to x5.
- Earned points are used to buy new moves or upgrade existing ones as well as her weapons.
- Once players has finished the game, additional difficulty settings are unlocked including an arcade-mode where each enemy can only take one bullet and Rubi also has considerably less health.
- Rubi's: In addition a points-mode, in which players can select each level of the story-mode and try to beat their highscore, and Rubi's home are unlocked.
- The only other way to regenerate health is to drink from whiskey bottles scattered around the levels.
- She also has access to a sword which she uses as a door-opener and to cut down enemies in melee combat.
- Besides the normal combat and the action/adventure-like climbing and jumping exercises in-between, there are simple quick-time events for bossfights and other scripted events and the so-called Rage-mode.
- At Rubi's home, an abandoned plane-graveyard, several different challenges await players like getting from A to B in the fastest time possible, or shooting targets for points.
Modes & Ways to Play
During rage-mode, Rubi is nearly invulnerable, is faster and hits harder - but also has to deal with many many more enemies.
Presentation & Atmosphere
This drives her mad and turns the realistic graphics into a red-black-white cartoon-style world.
Display support includes HDTV 720p. Audio support includes Dolby Digital and DTS.
