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Preview

Wet

Format Xbox 360

Developer A2M

Publisher Vivendi Games

Genre Shoot 'em Up, Action

12-Jun-2009 She might be a bit damp, but Rubi Malone is far from washed-up.

2 Comments

Not so long ago, third-person shooter WET was missing in action. It dropped from Vivendi's line-up following the publisher's merger with Activision Blizzard. Now Bethesda has the rights and is giving it a new lease of life with Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Eliza Dushku in the lead role.

She plays Rubi Malone, a Matrix-style femme fatale who seems to spend as much of her life in bullet-time as she does at normal pace.

That's no bad thing when you've been betrayed by a wealthy crime lord and are being pursued by an army of Triads.

Heavily focused on gunplay, sword combat and over-the-top acrobatics, this is more of an arena-based brawler than the screens suggest.

The goal is to link spectacular finishing moves together into a high-scoring combo and an even bigger body count. The Bethesda
rep compared it to the trick-based rewards system in skateboarding games.

If fighting inside confined spaces doesn't excite you, there's also the promise of freeway-based battles where you leap from car to car like a homicidal Crash Bandicoot. These sections might play out a bit like a platformer, but your ultimate goal is to reach the Triad drivers and slice them up with your katana.

Don't expect free roaming, though, WET is very much about cinematic-style set pieces.

It obviously owes a lot to Kill Bill. A grainy camera filter is being used to give it the appearance of a murky exploitation movie. Even the '70s-style soundtrack wouldn't be out of place in Tarantino's record collection.
While lots of the features we're seeing in WET have become well-established action game clich�s, we're confident that the storyline will offer something new.

Duppy Demetrius, one of the writers on the TV series 24, has been drafted in to make sure there are plenty of mind-boggling twists and turns.

Our big request to Bethesda: please change the title of this game! The name 'Rubi Malone' should also be kicked to the kerb pretty quickly, but aside from that it's looking peachy. WET displays more and more promise every time we see it.

Ben Talbot