After not playing any games on my XBOX for awhile (at least not any real games that come on disc), I finally bought a new game and starting playing again. I was encouraged to buy a game because EBGames is having its annual daily doorcrashers in July. This year’s sales have been very lame and the only thing that I bought is Wet.

Wet didn’t get that great of a review (69 on MetaCritic) but I was interested because of the design. The game is in the style of a Quentin Tarantino movie, lots of cussing, blood, and Mexico/Texas influence. Not only that, the game play is in the Chow Yun Fat, jump sideways and shoot with dual-wielded, unlimited ammo pistols. It makes no sense, but it’s fun to play and experience!

There is some platforming that is reminiscent of Mirror’s Edge (although I have limited frame of reference, maybe it’s because it involves jumping and your character is a female) and then a lot of 10000 vs 1 gun fights. You have the ability to do acrobatics; such as jumping in various directions, or sliding, or running up along walls, and when you do so time slows down for you to pull off some headshots. It ends up playing like the 4^th quarter of a basketball game and eventually becomes a bit tedious/repetitive; but fortunately, the game is not THAT long.

Posted by Kevin in Blogs Tags: games, xbox