WET Preview [360]

16 Jul 2009 at 17:12:04 by

You will no doubt have read previews and features with phrases and words such as "Uma Thurman" and "Kill Bill" when reading about WET.  Well, not to worry, we're not going to bore you with the influences and possible relationships between the different medias of film and videogames, but what we do promise to do is tell you what our impressions of WET were after playing the game for a little while.

By now most of you will know what WET looks like.  Its art-style is very stylised with the emphasis on the popular Grindhouse feel which we've seen a lot more of over the last few months.  And the protagonist and story is different to what you'd expect too.  You follow Rubi, a "fixer" and not a DIY handy-woman/man thing.  No, "fixer" as in assassin, silencer, stalker and generally all-round, hard-ass bitch.

Rubi is an acrobatic arse-kicker with a Katana blade and some fire-arms for support.  When she's not running across walls, and jumping from one rooftop to another shooting the enemy, she's sliding across floors and slicing any baddies that get in her way.

And she does all of this seamlessly and beautifully, and the art-style works, which is a shock to me more than anything else.  When you play games like this which don't really seem to offer anything new in the way of gameplay, you'd hope that effort has been made in other places, but to be fair the art-style was never going to be the best thing about this game, it was Rubi's character and the different ways she can deal death in any given situation.

You see, the beauty behind Rubi is that this is her persistent fighting style, so it looks good every time you kill someone, a sentence I'm sure shouldn't sound right, but nevertheless.  And to make it more interesting you can chain your attacks and up your combos as well as varying your punishment between bullets and blades.  Rubi was clearly taken out of a circus, placed in the care of Lara Croft until she was able to double back flip, circle and Cuervo Lara while she was sleeping in, leaving only a bloody mess behind her.  Oh, and a dead Lara.

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