Avoid this opportunity to get wet
The graphics for the game, to me anyway, are the highlight. The developers used the look of old cracked and popping 35mm film that gives it that grindhouse look. Rubi has a great character model, but the rest of the cast is as cleched as the guy getting the girl in a romance movie. You have the typical thug, thug with pipe or board, and thug with guns; on occasions you have thug with armor that can only be killed with shots to the head. As for the environments, you never see much more than ally ways, and inside interiors; except for a couple of places like Rubi's clutter-littered junkyard in Texas. Speaking of environments, they are again, cliched. You have restaurants, refineries, and more, keeping this an urban themed game. Shame.
The sound is another good aspect. The music is worth special mentioning because all of the tracks are catchy, upbeat, and original. Eliza Dushku lends her voice to Rubi, and she does a decent job, but keeping in tone with the rest of the game, she isn't taking her job here too seriously. You have a couple of other surprise actors, but they aren't too big in Hollywood. The guns for Rubi sound cool and menacing, however, for some strange reason, the enemies guns sound flat and dull. And you will pretty much hear the same lines in gameplay over and over and over again. And while the rest of game is over the top, so is the language. You will pretty much hear every curse and derogatory term known to man, and thats within the first hour of the game, and it only gets worse.
Now onto the worst part of the game, the gameplay. The opening level, which also served as the demo for the game, is cool, if not original at all. The tutorial teaches you how to slide, run along walls, and jump, all while firing your guns. Did you get that list? If you did, then you have pretty much played the entire game. Thats right, even though you can trade in your style points for abilities and attributes at the end of the level, it never extends past the basics. Sure, you gain the ability to slide and the go from the slide into a rising uppercut, and others like sliding down a zip-line while firing your guns, or swinging from a pole while firing your guns, its minimal things that can be worked around. Mainly, those are there to give the gameplay a bit of extra flash. However, the selling point is also the games curse: slo-mo. Every action besides walking/running, sends Rubi into a slo-mo dance of death. Thats right you cant even jump without "bullet-time" kicking in. At first, the idea was cool, but by the 3rd level, it wore out its welcome. Transitions from different acrobatics are clunky and too difficult to nail, and the aiming needs some work. On top of that, even on Easy difficulty, all enemies need about 8-10 bullets to put down. The biggest gripe I have is that you will often times come to an area that has these symbols that you must destroy before the enemies stop pouring in from ladders and doors. On top of that, you usually have 3-5 of them. This wasn't challenging, instead, it was infuriating! I'm just wondering how a game featuring a femail assassin/gun-for-hire with acrobatics along with duel pistols and a sword could go so wrong. The concept screams unique and different, while the execution yells failure. Nothing flows smoothly in this game, and even Max Payne, which came out back near 2000 controlls better than this. Talk about embarrassing!
Replayability depends on if you like the game enough to go back and complete the games five difficulties, time trials, and accuracy tests. Honestly, the level design is poor, the challenges, especially the time trials, are near impossible for the facts of horrible controls and the standard at which the set the limits for gold silver and bronze.
Overall, Wet isn't great. Its not even good. What we have here was a promising premise gone to the toilet. While all of us knew it wasn't going to get any awards, or extend above grades of 8, and that's being generous, the game isn't even that enjoyable proceeding in with low to very low expectations. This is the prime example of why I will NEVER BUY another game without doing a bit of research or listening to some trusted review sites. Honestly I can't even recommend this as a rental. I got about 2 hrs in and cut it of due to it being very repetitive and just plain aggravating. Save your money and pay off some bills or use it to buy necessities, but use me as an example, and stay away from this one. In other words, jump around this wet mess.