Demo'ed : Wet

I don't know if you have noticed but over the last few years there hasn't been much in the way of action games that are all about fun instead they strive for a realistic nature thus making them feel more like reality then taking you on a madcap journey however Wet attempts to try and been a game were it's all about madcap fun and from the demo it's having one bloody good try.

You take control of Rubi Malone a gun for hire where in the demo she has to try and catch up with a mob man that has ran off with a case that contains something that is needed for her main quest.

The first thing you notice from the opening of the game is the very 70's grindhouse look with film grains on the screen and the El mariachi style music that blends with the Chinatown style look, you can tell that the developers wanted to make there game feel like you are not only playing a 70's style movie but that you are watching one.

Controls seem really slick with every single time you jump, slide or run on walls the game goes into a slow mo style feel thus giving you more time to concerntrate on blowing peoples heads of than worrying about how you are going to take them down.

In the demo we have the chance to try out the 3 main elements of the game, firstly we have the standard gunning down enemies section where noting is very original just you your gun and sword having to take down waves of enimes just so you can build up your combo meter.
Secondly we have a section thats taken out of a Quentin Tarantino movie that sees Rubi getting sprayed in the face with blood then going into some kind of rage mode that changes the look of the game into a over the top stylistic look, this part of the game for me was the best as the screen change from it's standard 70's feel to a red,black and white style comic book feel thus giving it an original look, it's also the section that is well over the top with blood and combos flying everywhere.
Finally an action game would'nt be one unless it featured some kind of on rail section and in the demo we are going down a highway hunting down the enemy jumping from car to car while taking down as many of the bad guy's as we can, now we can tell this is well scripted as every now and again we are given button prompts where if we press it in time it starts off an animation that enables us to jump from moving car to moving car.

So did the demo do anything for me well the answer there is yes it felt like fun and in an era where most developers wnat to go for more of a relistic feel it's nice to see that once in a while we get a game where everything is over the top and that the whole purpose is cause as much carnage and death as you possible can.
If the feel of the demo can transfer well into the finished game without it feeling the same all the way through then this could be a fun action game however if it falls into the pitfall of being all about style and nothing else then we can kiss originality goodbye.

Verdict - A over the top action trip that will mess with your mind as well as release your action demon