Artificial Mind and Movement is developing this very Quentin Tarantino-esque, third person, hack-n-slash shooter which looks amazing.

Wet stars a female mercenary named Rubi who is out for revenge. Sound cheesy? Well that’s the idea. The whole game is played through an old time theatre film grain; scratches and all. The acrobatics of Wet is what encompasses most of the gameplay; Rubi will take out enemies while jumping, diving, sliding, flipping and while running on walls. When performing an acrobatic attack the action goes into slow motion and the colors become black and while which is very similar to how acrobatic kills were handled in the game Stranglehold.

The whole design of Wet is very 1970s. Rubi is dressed in biker-chick style garb and enemies will sport styles like Shaolin monk hairstyles and purple bellbottoms with tiger striped blazers. The design is fantastic but a key feature in Wet that gives the design an even greater twist is the Rage Mode. I first caught a glimpse of Rage Mode when Rubi kills an enemy and his blood splatters across her face and into her eyes. Rubi then becomes enraged and the world turns completely red and black with spots of white.

The Red and black looks to be cell-shaded and the spots of white are actually what blood looks like in Rage Mode. When in Rage Mode, the splashes of blood on the walls will often times spell out words like “die” or “R.I.P.” Rubi stays in rage mode for a short time and then the texture mapping goes back to it’s original form. The animations in Wet look totally solid and the character models are extreme without being totally ridiculous.

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By far, Sony had the most impressive E3 stage I’ve ever seen.
They had it at the USC Los Angeles Theatre where they set up three huge screens that were each about forty feet tall! One could also say that after the press conference, Sony has the bragging rights to say that they showed off some of the most gorgeous looking game footage of any company at the whole show. The first big name was Uncharted 2: Among Thieves where they showed off live gameplay footage of how Uncharted will play. The setting looked to be in a Latin country where Nathan Drake and a female counterpart evade the onslaught of armed enemies and a machine gun wielding helicopter. Everything looked amazing from the character animations that had Nate jump, slide and climb from window to rooftop to the outstanding particle effects which had the chopper let loose a stream of bullets causing pieces of wood and debris to break off and shoot out in every direction. The building that Nate and his female opposite were fighting off enemies in collapsed with them in it as a result of the choppers attack which showed Nate and the girl perform some daring jumps to escape the building just before the whole thing goes down.

MAG was another title that Sony was pleased to show gameplay footage of. There’s not really anything too gorgeous about MAG; it’s kind of looks like a Call of Duty title but with more earth tones. What makes MAG exceptional though is the fact that it’s online multiplayer modes will support up to 256 players online at the same time in the same match. They then switched gears over to the PSP where they displayed screenshots for titles like Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines and video for Soul Calibur: Broken Destiny. They also made special emphasis on surprise titles Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker for PSP and Gran Turismo for PSP. Switching back to the PS3, Sony shows off actual in-game footage of Assassin’ Creed 2 and Final Fantasy XIII. Assassin’s Creed looks, by far, to be one of the best lit and best mapped games ever. There is not even a subtle difference between the quality of the live code and the quality of the cinematics; they both look equally fantastic. Animation wise, new acrobatic feats and attacks make this new character perform even more brutal kills than Altair in the first Assassin’s Creed. More Final Fantasy XIII footage was also shown but soon after Sony made the surprise announcement that even though FF XIII hasn’t even been released yet, Square Enix is now working on Final Fantasy XIV exclusively for the PS3. We’ve all heard the word “exclusive” many times before when dealing with Final Fantasy and the PS3; that remains to be seen.

A very impressive new title from Fumito Ueda, the creator of Shadow of the Colossus and Ico, called The Last Guardian shows a very creatively designed young boy whose guardian is a giant four legged bird creature which looks kind of like a griffin. From what the trailer showed, the boy and his guardian venture through enemy infested dungeons and overcome puzzles and traps with each others help. Fumito Ueda always has a distinct way of designing living creatures; the boy’s guardian is huge but is not too ominous as he and they boy constantly exchange affection. Think of Falcore from the never ending story with a giant bird’s head. Last but not least we saw some gameplay footage of God of War III; if there were such thing as being “over texture mapped” then Kratos would have to be it. Every wrinkle, every crease, every scar and every hair on his face are extremely significant. Even the grit and ridgedness of his teeth are remarkably apparent. As the gameplay footage commenced it is nice to see that Kratos’ basic combo has been changed up a bit considering that it has been exactly the same for the last three God of War titles. The executions are just as brutal as ever with Kratos completely gutting a Centaur spilling his insides all over the floor not to mention slicing the tail off a Chimera then stabbing it with it’s own horn which Kratos had already ripped off! The effects, such as blood splatters, released experience orbs and sparks from clanging blades, look even more believable in this God of War title than in any other, as should be expected. I’ll post more on God of War III after getting some hands on time with it.

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