Nothing is more relaxing after a hard day's work than taking a nice soak in a tub full of hot water and reflecting on the day's events. That goes double for
Rubi, the star of Sierra's upcoming game WET, whose day involves perfecting her Chow Yun-Fat meets Prince of Persia style of killing people. Just because she lives in a converted airplane cockpit trailer doesn't mean she doesn't enjoy the finer things in life, and you have to respect a woman who can let Calgon take her away while chilling her beer in the same cooler with a freshly removed human heart. Of course a CG trailer is no indication of what actual gameplay will be like, but if they get anywhere close to the moves showcased here Rubi might very well be a woman worth watching.
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Supposed to read "converted airplane cockpit trailer". Oops. Will update shortly.
Isn't this a really old trailer? But also yes if the game is good it might be worth watching, but thats the same with all games! By the trailer though it looks like its just a female Devil May Cry pandering to the Lara Jubblies market.
I still find myself really apathetic towards this game. Why did they waste time and money on this trailer?
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@NunianVonFuch: I have a hard time seeing anything wrong with that!
From the people who brought you Leisure Suit Larry comes another game that appeals to the "Dude, check this shit out" sect of the male populace.
I mean...it's a hot chick...with guns! And I can totally watch her in the bath! And then...she totally cracks open a beer! I love beer! Like, if she were real, I could totally score with this lady! Cause I love beer! Especially drinking it!
I think it looks cool. Jubblies are always a treat. She did Ninja Gaiden-esque wall run, which is braggable. It has my vote.
@Dead Air ummm Dead Air: Exactly. I agree. We need more of that.
are they bleeding grey?
Anyone know what song is playing in the background?
It looks fantastic but I will beat the dead horse with what I always say, it isn't aimed at kids, so why not make it an adult game (R Rated content) and show nudity for the same audience that sees R Rated movies.
We have such a weird standard for rating video games. An R Rated movie can have explicit sex scenes and nudity and Hostel level violence but if there is extended nudity in a game it gets an Adults Only rating. I'll buy this game if there is an extended shoot out scene right after this bathing scene where she kills a hundred henchmen naked but not until!
I hate this trend of game trailers that have nothing to do with actual gameplay. Based on this trailer, what do we actually know about the game? It could easily be an RPG...or like a puzzle game. The trailer for the new Final Fantasy had just as much action as this one did. If the game isn't graphically at the point where they can release a trailer with some in game stuff, maybe they should wait a while.
Complaints aside, I do dig a chick with tattoos.
Color me a bit more impressed with the covering of a Cash song than the video itself. Nice to see some people recognize not every action game needs a Disturbed/Slipknot song in its marketing to make said game seem more hardcore.
TUB GIRL!!! OMG
No thanks.
Really cool action trailer, IMHO; but I happen to enjoy Chow Yun-Fat movies. Hopefully the game lives up to the concept.
Dang. My Aunt Rubi has hobbies I know nothing about. And a tattoo. Will have to check this out. Gameplay is all, regardless of the hotness (or coolness) of the trailers, though.
I like Johnny Cash's version of the song they're using int this trailer much more.
This looks pretty awesome so far, but gamplay might not live up. I'll probably buy it just because I want to giggle to myself at the title.
He he he! Wet.
@Alski: It's a traditional song called "God's Gonna Cut You Down" that Johnny Cash recorded on American V. It's covered here by... Someone awful.
yeh...the game wont play like that.
@Alski: Johnny Cash, "God's Going to Cut You Down"
@jasu: Bah, my "Cover of" bit got eaten, though albo covered that before I did anyways.
Looks bad a, sortve kill bill sytle
It's paint-by-numbers, fill-in-the-formula game design.
Boobs + guns + tattoos (so hip!) = $$$
This is what would happen if fourteen year old boys design games.
Yawn.
Her tattoo look like she just has some really bad streaking from a fake tanning splurge... oh yeah, and that die job, pitiful.
KITSCH!
OK I found myself looking at her guns and comparing them to Lara's guns... anyways She looks good but how will the gun play be? Thats what makes a game not the character...
Blah.
How many damn games have we seen like this? Not just the girl, and the guns, and the sword mind you. The slow motion action, the fancy walk-walkin', the grungy lookin' atmosphere and a whole bunch of dudes she has to kill for some bullshit reason all smashed into one craptastic clusterfuck of a game that will come out to either:
A)Piss poor reviews, and people will still by it for Teh BeWbieZ.
B)Awesome reviews, which are obviously paid for to make the game sell better causing people to purchase it hoping it's a good game. Instead, all they get is Teh BeWbieZ. And not very good ones, at that.
Yes, we need ANOTHER cookie-cutter game.
It's going to take something fierce to get me interested in this game. I've barely heard anything about it and it's already an uphill struggle for my money.
Who knows, though. I've seen stranger things happen.
Uh..... Right....
Over the top moves, but the bathtub seemed nice.
@albo:
Actually most of American V was covers. He didn't write the song. It's been covered by dozens of other people. It's a folk song.
His version was better than this though.
Um.... From this FMV video that shows no gameplay, I take it that the graphics are not going to be awsome, the gameplay will feature really stupid badguys that can't shoot worth shit.
Common stupid developers. This video could have been a lot more cooler if some bullets actually grazed her and she was covered in blood and wounds at the end of the fight. The hero's that have an easy time of things is not what a good game makes. Have the hero make it so they are tired and injured after killing a MILLION people... sheesh...
Correction, American IV was covers. But Cash is well known for tons of covers including that song.
Stylistically it looks cool, and if they did a ten minute movie short based around this, I would probably watch it.
Game? Reserving judgement until we get a demo or a frankensteinreview.
Got to love having some Johnny Cash in there. Sure, it's not "The Man in Black" himself singing it, but it's still a pretty good rendition of it.
Another smirking, Double D, ninja chick with what? A sword and a gun? Originality never ends in the land of Video Games.
/"Snore"
Boring and Generic, c'mon guys, let's see a little originality in our games.
@mekklesack2:
Oh, oh! I know! We can make her half vampire! And werewolf! That's never been done before!
The music was pretty horrible, and made the trailer seem more cheap. The MGS3 fanmade video to that song from the Punisher was better than this. Also the pandering is maybe too much with the kanji on revolvers... it seems like something a kid would design while bored in a High School math class. They could have at least used the now media popular HK, which is more practical. Not impressed, but good luck to them anyway. ^^
@PapaBear434:
It was the pitch and tone of the vocals that gave it issues imho.
@ffmusicdj: You have just reminded me of the most ineffably horrendous image I have ever laid eyes on. Thanks a lot :C
Okay, ahhh... Sierra, who brought you Leisure Suit Larry is publishing a game called "WET" starring a "bad ass chick with huge juggs and guns and a sword" that was developed by "A2M"?
Is it April Fool's Day again already? They might as well have made it a LL spin off, leave everything the same, but instead of "Rubi" say it's "Passionate Patti" (or whoever the fuck) and at least let people think that it's more parody than just unimaginative developers. Gah.
Slick! I will be watching this game with great interest, now.
and on a side note ... am I the only one who finds it odd that one of Kotaku's ad sponsors is for Urine Removal, are we really the demographic for that? But it did make me giggle that I saw the ad link for it on a "Wet" article. hee hee ^_^
@Witzbold: seconded. only thing worse was the awful johnny cash cover.
@Mansteak: There already is a gamne named "Wet - The Sexy Empire". You sort of are a porn producer and have to do all you can to make your star Lula happy.
Despite how ridiculous the premise sounds, it actually was a good game and played like a cross over of Theme Park, The Movies and Leisure Suit Larry.
That was a great trailer.
like albo says, the song is not originally by johnny cash. its a traditional song thats been redone by many different folks. including cash, Elvis presley and Moby.
as far as the game is concerned. i'll just wait to till we get some gameplay impressions before i make any judgment.
Bleh,
For anybody excited about this game, think of this for a moment. When was the last time you've played a great game by a2m? :|
its a cool trailer, but a trailer really doesnt mean much..
i'd like to see some gameplay from this game...
im not getting my hopes up until i see something new and amazing about this game.
simply having a female character and lots of action isnt enough to make a game great. although i hear heavenly sword turned out alright... but its no god of war.
Please, please God, let this game be good. I'm so sick of games with female protagonists either sucking so much I want to kill myself (Bloodrayne), or is so great, no one buys it (Beyond Good and Evil, Primal, to a lesser extent of awesome). Pleeeeeease.
Also-- very cool song, at least.
That was pretty dope... till I found that she uses a RAZR. Man... WTF? "Wwwwwwww"
I want it to be good...ohh do I want it to be good, BUT I know the odds are against it :( and it makes sense to have a female character in this game because of all the acrobatics. In today's society people always see females as being more acrobatic and moving than males. Seeing as how it's not a ninja or something similar that is :)
looks interesting, may have to find more about it.
I love the idea of a strong female heroine. So far, video games have not delivered on that idea, save for some rare examples.
Because men design the female lead, they endow her with male qualities. She is 'strong' like a man is strong. She is sexy like she is expected to be sexy.
"GET WET" wow who at marketing got paid to come up with this
Title could have "Bathtime with Ubi" from the looks of it, but it is Sierra. Looks pretty neat.
ugh, how can anyone like this cliche factory?