Where The Hell is WET 2?
996At first glance, 2009’s WET might seem like a blatant exploitation of violence, and a handful of elements from other action games from the era… and that’s because it is. If you were to take Max Payne, Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, mix them all up in a mid-tier cauldron, and watered it all down a bit, you would get WET.
I mean-- you wouldn’t get wet-- you would stay perfectly dry. You would just get the game WET. (Unless of course you were gaming outside in the rain. Then you would get wet and WET.) Nonetheless, WET is a game from a developer with an enormous resume, and more-or-less accomplished what it set out to do. It clearly wasn’t for everybody but of those it was aimed at, most enjoyed its culmination of action game tropes and grindhouse aesthetic. So, if that’s the case why have we gone so many years with no sequel?
Why is Ruby Malone’s stylishly violent method of “problem solving” seemingly left in the dust-bin of gaming history without so much as remaster or even a port to modern consoles? If a game as drab and generic as Homefront can get a sequel, then where exactly the hell is WET 2?