Started as a basic Max Payne Clone and turned into a furstating waste of my time.
User Rating: 6.5 | Wet X360
Wet If the commercials of the game have not done a fantastic job in making me want to try this game. Explosions, John-Woo style action, oh and a fantastically hot femme-fatal doing all this should equal an amazing game right? This is the first time in all my reviews for multiple sites that I'm going to Osborne a game. Those offended by harsh language please stop reading now. Story: You were warned, so I hope you can **** deal with it. The story is set in a grind house style movie which is one of the few highlights if this game. The over the top revenge story is vocally sound with our heroine being none other than Eliza Dushku. For those who have zero **** idea who this is, she is the property of Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and FOX (Dollhouse) for the foreseeable future. Her lack of acting skills fits perfectly in this predictable and mindless story. Those who don't are Alan Cumming, a Tony Award winning actor, and Malcolm McDowell who stared in the Oscar shunned "A Clockwork Orange". The only reason these people signed on was because of the respect that producer Bethesda (Fallout3, Oblivion) has with vocal talent. At least the story keeps true to its roots and has film tearing and in-movie commercials that interrupt the action. These help breakup the game and bring some much needed laughs. Gameplay: Holy crap, where to begin? This game had so many good ideas then **** a brick of frustration. To start, the game is a basic cut and paste job of "Max Payne" and piece of **** game "The Club". Players use Bullet time to slay multiple enemies by jumping, diving, sliding, wall running and swinging around the arena style battle grounds. The score multiplier tallies you on how many people you take out per slow-mo action section. This part is well done, at least in the beginning when the game gives you open arenas to kill people. After about level 7, the game becomes a **** inducing, finger **** from the darkest reaches of hell. I spent about an hour on one area as it had only one correct way to complete it. If this is the games excuse of a difficulty curve it's really ****ed up. Its like going out a blind date and everything is going good, until you start getting your freak on to find to your horror you scored yourself transvestite. Not to mention that when ever you die you are treated to Dushku's manly death grunt. Its funny at first, but then it starts to grade on your nerves like someone who constantly calls you the wrong name. How could this game possibly get worse Drake? Oh it gets worse, like the **** platforming that decides to not tell you how it works. Oh quick, tap the A button to do a back flip! Oh sorry, just a split-second to early, fall to your death and hear the man grunt again. This game had so much going for it, yet it some how found a way to destroy itself. Maybe it had to do with oh say, two people looking for problems. The game was problem tested by two freaking people! One of them is named Kat Cannon, which means one tester and one nut case. For everything this game does right it takes a jump into a pile of **** Presentation: As stated before the game uses a liberal coating of grind house. This also goes for the low-grade graphic work done. Sometimes the engine seems like it has the drunken hiccups as items hop around for no reason. Top that with having only one loading screen which is seen a lot to put it nicely. The game has lip-syncing issues and quite a few bugs that happen to be very noticeable. When the game does make up for its graphical failings is its amazing sound track. The amount of quality surf-rock bands they found to kill people to be really impressive. I ended up downloading a few songs from the game, damn they were catchy.
Overall: Wet was dropped by Activision for a damn good reason now that you look at it. It's unpolished, unimpressive and frustrating to play. It's a prime example of game companies reminded of the days when they couldn't get any. So they expect that gamers will be like them, sexually frustrated and wooed by anything with a hot woman involved. That good sirs, is why they invented the internet. Grade: C- 
