Wet: The Slippery One
No list of gimmick shooters is complete without a visit to Bethesda Softworks and Behaviour Interactive’s 2009 grindhouse bloodfest, Wet. Buffy’s Eliza Dushku stars as Rubi Malone, a completely unlikable mercenary who cuts a bloody path through the forces of a powerful drug lord with her sword and dual pistols. Basically, she really wants to be Dante from Devil May Cry. At times her battles get so bloody that Rubi launches into a berserker rage. The screen goes white, black, and red as she becomes faster and stronger. But the wetter she gets, the deader her enemies get. I cannot believe I just wrote that.
The whole blood thing isn’t Wet’s only gimmick. This is an acrobatic shooter, which means Rubi can run, jump off walls, and slide everywhere, firing her guns all the while. If you don’t take the game too seriously, it’s a slippery good time.
