PlayExclusive: Monkey Business A “Wet” Review

Console: 360, PS3
Genre: 3rd person Shoot/Slash 'em up
Players: 1









Story
Rubi is a fixer. She gets jobs from interesting clients, travels to interesting places, kills interesting people, and always gets the job done. A year after a mission she does for a client, Trevor Ackers, she is asked to travel to Hong Kong to by the clients father, William to save Trevor Ackers.


From there, Rubi is thrown into an out-there story rife with deception, betrayal, and lots of angry gun and sword wielding guys.

Gameplay
I love shooting. I love slashing. And I absolutely love 3rd person platformers. Throwing the three together in a brilliant whirlwind of over the top combo's is something that'll bring smiles to any hardcore gamer out there. From wall-runs, dives, and slides, players get launched into Matrix-esque bullet time, making dodging attacks and shooting enemies a real breeze.


It's not necessary to dive over a burning car, slide under a truck while shooting a bunch of guys, and then doing a rising slash on a bat-wielding thug as you get up, but it never gets old. In addition, comboing kills also lets Rubi regenerate health; more kills, the more damage she can take.

As you progress, you get style points, earned by performing stylish kills, and after completing certain areas, you can upgrade Rubi's weapon specs and acrobatics, for firepower and flashier stunts, respectively.


Graphics & Sound
Traversing the stereotypical environs of Hong Kong and London, everything looks to have come out of a brilliantly cheesy action flick. Add in the film grain and infrequent film intermissions, and the look is complete. While there aren't too many major graphics glitches, enemies that fall off ledges seem to have their bodies stretch in all sorts of odd ways.

Music done by various artists like “The Arkhams” and “Gypsy Pistoleros” totally set the mood, and conveniently enough some of the soundtrack is also available for a free download at www.wetthegame.com.


Overall
The mixture of fighting styles blend together perfectly, making for endless combo's off of cars, tables, walls, and even jumping off enemies. The platforming elements do slow down the action during clumsy chase scenes and climbing/jumping portions but they're easily forgivable.

For fans of Grindhouse/Quentin Tarantino flicks, or any hardcore gamers looking for a dose of over the top gunslinging action, I highly recommend players go out, and get Wet.



This may be not be reproduced under any circumstances except for
personal, private use. It may not be placed on any web site or
otherwise distributed publicly without advance written permission.
Use of this guide on any other web site or as a part of any public
display is strictly prohibited, and a violation of copyright.

All trademarks and copyrights contained in this document are owned
by their respective trademark and copyright holders.

Copyright 2009 Johar Aston, TheLAG