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Femme fatale Rubi is a fixer. You have a problem, she'll fix it. She's a gun-for-hire that will take pretty much any job, if the price is right.
Wet is a stylized, story-focused third-person action/ shooter, developed by Artificial Mind and Movement (A2M), and published by Bethesda of Elder Scrolls fame. Think Kill Bill meets Devil May Cry, with a heavy '70s action-flick vibe, and you have Wet, more or less.
Right from the get-go you'll find that Rubi is extraordinarily agile, and can navigate pretty much any environment as nimbly as the Prince in Prince of Persia. Wall running, gravity-defying leaps, bullet time, the works. The game features an ingenious lock-on mechanic which allows you to target more than one enemy at a time, by automatically locking on to the nearest enemy and allowing you to manually aim at another. The result is a heavily stylized, visually impressive experience.
At the core of the combat is a combination system that allows Rubi to string together her moves. Mixing fancy acrobatics with sword and gunplay rewards you more than simply shooting things dead. You earn points for these flashy attack-strings, which you can in turn exchange for new moves and weapon upgrades.
There is a heavy grindhouse style that permeates Wet; vintage grainy filter, B movie special effects, and lots of blood and violence. Interestingly, the lead character isn't overly sexed-up, as you would expect in a game of this fashion. She is actually wearing clothes, as opposed to your typical scantily heroine. What's more, A2M and Bethesda insist that they do not view Rubi as a sex symbol. Just a strong, ruthless and nubile fixer, who only looks sexy doing her job.
A cool little nugget of info: Eliza Dushku is to voice Rubi, and Malcolm McDowell is to voice main villain.
Wet is slated for release later this year for the PS3 and Xbox 360. Very obviously Wet will be rate M, for mature audiences only. If sliding and vaulting around obstacles, running along walls, leaping across chasms, all while letting loose gunfire and vicious sword slashes at anything and everything that moves sounds like your cup of tea, than look for more on Wet on Examiner.com in the coming months.
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