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WET is a third-person shooter action game released in 2009 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 by Artificial Mind & Movement. The game stars Rubi Malone, a mercenary hired to oversee a deal for William Ackers, the head of a powerful drug syndicate that needs a heart transplant. What seems like a simple hand-off leads to a violent chase through Chinatown, and she eventually finds herself working for Ackers again under suspicious circumstances. From there, Rubi’s life is thrown into one dangerous situation after another as she tries to figure out the truth behind her latest mission before she finds herself out of the job market, permanently. It’ll take all her skills and wits to make it out alive, but Rubi Malone is the best in the business, and business is about to boom…

Like Max Payne and Strangehold before it, WET is a shooter that focuses on flashy gunplay propelled by bullet-time mechanics and acrobatic movement. What sets this title apart from its predecessors is its tone; while Max Payne and Strangehold are more grounded with serious narratives, WET is first and foremost a video game and has a singular focus of letting the player feel as cool as they want. The story takes a backseat to the gameplay, a high-octane display of stunts that scores you on how cool you can make killing hordes of gang members look. It’s not a particularly sophisticated system, but it pushes the player to try and take advantage of the environment while playing. That is, when the levels are actually designed around the acrobatics. It’s a bit of a mixed bag when it comes to environmental design, and the number of contextual controls can sometimes break the flow as you fumble through various commands. However, the aesthetics of the game are consistently cool and heavily inspired by drive-in grindhouse movies, from its aesthetic additions like the film grain filter and scene transitions to its overall portrayal of violence. When everything’s running smoothly, WET’s play is a sight to behold. The soundtrack is impressive as well, boasting 35 tracks from various rockabilly artists to bring more energy to the game’s shootouts. WET is the Quentin Tarantino to Max Payne and Stranglehold’s John Woo, and acts as an interesting contrast to other shooters of its era.





I’m high and dry ChorpSaway and I will be piloting you through this rockabilly hoedown of a game. Joining me are my co-commentators for hire TheJayOfSpade, FutureFriend, and Taoc. Together we’ll take on any job necessary to get our pay, and take down anyone in our path.

In this Let’s Play I will be completing the story mode, as well as getting all of the collectible monkeys along the way.

UPDATE TIME!

After saving our mission from disaster by the hands of a tacky conman, Rubi's ready to deliver the goods and head back to her base in Texas for some much-needed time off. To hell with paid running and gunning, it's time to enjoy some recreational running and gunning! Rubi has some obstacle courses set up that she likes to run in order to keep herself in shape, and we're about to take part in some of them! It's time to get our feet WET with the acrobatics system as well as the bullet-time gun controls as we get a full view of a surprisingly large level that looks like it was meant to house a lot more than it does now. But this time off looks like it'll be ending soooner rather than later, as a new eccentric businessman is on the way to offer Rubi a new job...

UPDATE TIME!

It's time to take on our next mission, and we're headed to Hong Kong! Rubi's been hired by William Ackers to bring his son Trevor home, as he's been raising hell trying to insert himself into the Chinese drug trade. Our informants in China are trying to help us track him down, but it looks like he's been covering his tracks well. However, Trevor just finished business with a local dealer who should be a good lead for Rubi. Looks like we're gonna have to chase down a rat in order to get the info we need...

UPDATE TIME!

It's time to finish our business in China! Thanks to Rat Boy's help, we finally catch Trevor Ackers in the middle of a deal. However, it looks like he isn't ready to go home quite yet, and so it's time for another chase across the rooftops! Trevor may have the numerical superiority with his henchmen, but we have the tactical advantage! It's time to use everything we learned from our airport reading of Sun Tzu to take our thousand mook battles and turn them into a thousand victories!

UPDATE TIME!

Let's drop Trevor off and finish up another mission! Well that's what would happen in a perfect world, but unfortunately the gig economy is never quite that fair. Things fall through on our latest job and Rubi ends up barely making it out alive. Something went wrong, and someone is gonna pay for it. Rubi needs some intel to track down William Ackers, but nothing in life is free...

UPDATE TIME!

Thanks to our deal with Kafka, Rubi has tracked William Ackers to his lush English estate, and it turns out his operations are handled inside an Uncharted training area. Security's tight as we reach the Ackers stronghold, but our acrobatics and gunplay will prove tighter as we make our way to the big man's office! Will he tell us what happened during our last job, or will we have to force that info out of him? We also take some time while we're here to enjoy the English culture on display in Ackers' home and think about just how beautiful the country is!

UPDATE TIME!

The truth has been revealed! Rubi's last mission was a setup; another drug kingpin by the name of Rupert Pelham, afraid of losing his place in the Asian market, had hired Rubi to deliver Trevor Ackers to his death and send his father a word of warning. But now it's time to pay back the favor and bring down a drug empire ourselves. With a little help from our intelligence team, we find that one of the pillars of this Pelham operation is located in China, so it's time to head back across the sea and cause some problems for the drug trade!

UPDATE TIME!

It's time to cut funds for arts programs! We've tracked down Rupert Pelham to a run-down opera house where he's heading one of his drug labs. The place is filled with security, but Rubi's always been best when she does a solo. It's time to crash this party and see if we can't finally get revenge on the man who fucked us over! But Pelham has a trick up his sleeve, and he's ready to cut Rubi's performance short...

FINAL UPDATE TIME!

It's time to finally get our revenge! Rubi's officially on the warpath headed towards Rupert Pelham's headquarters and nothing's gonna stop her! Only one more person, Christopher Sorrell, stands in her way of finishing this job, so she's taking a quick stop by his seaside warehouse to tie up some loose ends. Afterwards it's time for the final confrontation, and Rubi's ready to put everything on the line. Let's end it!

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