Wet: A Review (Video Game)

It seems everybody's hopping on the Grindhouse train now-a-days, and yet the film itself, which brought a fun and whacky idea to modern theaters tanked worse than a drunk on payday. Still, I guess we should be thankful in some respects, it did bring us a lot closer with our modern action directors, dispelling exactly what we want.

After all.....this "style" IS what we want.....right?

Yes and no. When it's done right, the grindhouse feel of cinema is second-to-none. It's camp is part of it's charm, and it's charm is full of blood, guts, random nudity, and cussing like a sailor. Enter "Wet", the new action title from Bethesda softworks. First off, to fully wrap your head around the promises this game makes, one has to understand the very concept: they wanted to make a "Quentin Tarantino"-feel to the game......they couldn't have gotten any further away from that specific style. At that, the game's developer's are sort of being prejudice against Tarantino's style. Afterall, yes, many things he does in his films are supposed to act as homages, but this is a blatant rip-off of an 80's movie with little to no comprehensible plot.

Rubi Malone is the main character, and as far as I can figure it, she's going after the son of a bad guy because the father doesn't want his son fucking up his drug dealing business......yeah, makes little to no sense. Suddenly you're thrown into a world of characters trying so badly to be idiosyncratic it hurts. In the third chapter (SPOILER ALERT!), you're running after some guy named Rat Boy, who is (surprise, surprise) surrounded by rats. Before this, you meet two asian brothers, one of which is a fat video gamer playing his system like a zombie.

The game itself is little more than "The Club" mixed with "Wanted: Weapons Of Fate" (neither are "great" games, per say, but I had an incredibly fun time playing them). The characters have a mixed fashion sense and none of them can tell if they want to be samurai or cowboys....or lesbians.....or crazy old chinese men.

But when it comes down to the wire, "Wet" is fun.....I can't lie. It does have it's moments of absolute annoyance, a.k.a. the "Killer 7"-level design of when Rubi gets a facefull of blood. It's in those moments that a little more substance over style would help this minor issue, as the main problem during these scenes is that it's almost impossible to see WHERE you're going. Aside from that, the game is redundant as hell. Shoot, kill, shoot, kill, shoot, kill, and it's all pretty much a grindhouse-inspired version of John Woo's "Stranglehold".

At the end of the day, it's worth at least a rental. Given, this will quench some people's thirst for a random action game.....at least until another one just like it comes out.

OVERALL: 3/5.