For those that are out of the loop, I’ll quickly explain that there is a new console game coming out for my beloved XBox 360 called “Wet”. The best way I could describe this game is to say that it looks like ”Stranglehold” meets “Max Payne” as imagined by Quentin Taratino and produced by Bethesda featuring a character who makes Lara Croft look like Safari Vacation Barbie. In short, I was drooling the moment I saw the trailer.

What makes this game so different from just everything out there is the visual style and the interaction. From the trailers Rubi (the main character) is built less like Pam Anderson and more like Mila Jovovich. From the moment you see her, inked up like Kat Von D, you know this is a girl who probably could take out a room full of mobsters with a six shooter and pair of chop sticks. In the sequences from the trailer she’s seen leaping through the air and shooting opponents, hacking at them with what appears to be either a Chinese styled broad sword or a stylized Katana and at one point jumping on the roofs of moving cars in the most creative (if not impossible) approach to a car chase imagined. 

Like “Max Payne” there is a Bullet Time of sorts as Rubi does acrobatics, causing the game to slow down which allows you to target  multiple opponents better. And while this may seem like a rip off, it is actually a very practical approached if anyone’s ever played John Woo’s “Stranglehold”. In a scene during that game you’re allowed to jump up on a rail and slide down while shooting at enemies. While this is very cool in concept, the problem was you had to go from right to left picking off people shooting back at you, but by the time you’d get the enemy in your cross hairs you’re passing him. Now you have to switch targets but can’t seem to move quickly enough to take out the new target. If the game had slowed down to let me target better this wouldn’t have looked like amature hour at a skate park.

So from the game play ideas and visuals alone this looked like a very exciting game, and one that I was assuming I would rent or maybe buy used. That was until, someone upped the stakes. You see, it now seems that Eliza Dushku is voicing the main character Rubi Malone. I almost found myself pre-ordering this game.

Here is the link to the actual game and you can see for yourself – http://wet.bethsoft.com

Hmmm…….  Eliza Dushku.