Wet - Fighting Game for PS3 and Xbox 360

Released 5 days ago on the 15th of September 2009 Wet is great combination of sword fighting and shooting game and will surely be a popular choice of fighting game to buy as a Christmas gift. You take on the character of Rubi Malone, a mercenary for hire who takes on a job to find the missing son of a wealthy business man but is subsequently betrayed by her employer and drawn into a murky world of murder and warring factions. She finds herself on the run and searching for the man who hired her in the first place.

Wet has a retro style with 70’s music and visuals and with a fast paced and exciting, if slightly unimaginative storyline. One of the best parts of the game are all the acrobatic moves your character can and must do, which are challenging but work the way you intuitively feel that they should making it easy to react quickly and pull off some cool moves. You can also shoot while performing jumps, slides, while running and so on, which is good. The sword fighting comes with some great stylized combos with satisfying graphics, but are really just there as finnishing moves to make a kill when you get in close, making this basically a shooting game in my mind.

Going into ‘rage mode’ is quite entertaining as it changes the graphics of the whole game to black white and red with a Japanese anime style for as long as it lasts. Overall the graphics are one of the strong points of this game, with an emphasis on style rather than detail and realism.

Probably the main downside of Wet is the fact that it doesn’t have a multiplayer online feature, which means that when you’ve finnished the game it is finnished and you can’t keep playing by going online, but having said that there is a large amount of unlockable extra content to the main game, so it should keep you going for a fair while.

My rating - 4.5 out of 5

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Samurai Jack

You have to move fast and get your timing right to avoid spear throws from your enemies whilst getting close enough in to kill them with your sword. The combination of this and the fact that you have to make your way up the screen, jumping between ledges and so on, can make it tricky in places - and it is this that can make it quite addictive. Other than that this is a pretty standard platform game.

Soul Calibur 4 Review

Created by Namco Bandai Games, Soul Calibur 4 is an action-based one-on-one fighting game available now on the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. It is the fourth installment to the Soul franchise. The story gyrates around an extraordinary sword that obtained an evil soul due to years of bloodshed. Each character of your choice must undergo a series of battles in order to reach and destroy the evil sword.

The Good:
Excellent graphics: This game is an absolutely gorgeous game to watch. The graphics are simply breathtaking and have come a long way since the first installment to the Soul franchise. The game play graphics are almost as great as the cinema graphics and each stage is outstandingly designed and responds to the character movement (example: Wooden floors break when characters fall onto it).
Enchanting music: The game features thrilling instrumental music to keep you involved while engaged in a fierce battle.
The characters are still awesome: As the years go by, you’d think that the characters would lose their styles and skills due to the game development. This, however, is not true with Soul Calibur 4. While each character is modified so that players don’t become bored by repetition, each character retains their signature moves.
Easy as pie: The game is fairly easy to play. Any person could beat another simply by button smashing. There is a block button, a kick button, and two attack buttons. You can use other combinations of these buttons to unleash devastating blows to your opponent.
Weapons: Soul Calibur 4 has tons of weapons that vary in range, speed, and power. Pick one of the thirty-four characters and see whose weapon suits your taste.

The Bad:
Wardrobe: Some of those character costumes have got to go. Namco overdid it a bit this time and got a little too fancy with the attire.
Uninteresting story: The storyline is a bit boring and lazy is you ask me.
Ring outs: Any Soul Calibur player knows that ring outs are the cheapest ways to win a match. It is also the most annoying way to lose. Imagine this: You’re kicking butt with your favorite player. One more hit, and your opponent is dead! Oh no! Your opponent kicks you one time and you’re thrown out of the battlefield! Let’s face it: Rings outs suck! The worst part is… You cannot turn this irritating feature off.

Let’s compare!
Soul Calibur 4 vs. Tekken 6: Namco is also famous for its revolutionary franchise, Tekken. Tekken is one of the earliest 3D fighting games. Don’t get me wrong. I love Tekken 6. I grew up playing the Tekken games. It is a lovely game, but Soul Calibur 4 is much more pleasant to play. The moves in Soul Calibur 4 are cooler to watch. If you like hardcore street fighting, go with Tekken 6. If you like weapons and cute characters, go with Soul Calibur 4.

Overall:
Soul Calibur 4 is worth buying and it is a good game to add to your collection. Despite some negative aspects of the game, it definitely has come a long way since the earlier games in the franchise.
4 of 5 stars for this game!

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Soul Calibur 4 PS3
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Soul Calibur IV (Xbox 360)
Soul Calibur IV (PS3)

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