Wet 2 Dries Itself Off; Appears to be Cancelled

When a sequel to Wet was announced late last year it left many of us scratching our heads wondering first why and secondly if they could make some solid improvements. According to the Linkedln profile of an ex-tech artist from the development team, we don’t need to be confused any more as developer Behaviour Interactive have cancelled Wet 2.

[SquareEnixFan]

I loved that game.

[LOGICWINS]

I played the demo for the first game...it was pretty cool, but its not something I'd spend 60 or even 30 dollars on. Its a good bargin bin $10-$15 game though.

[dgroundwater]

I really enjoyed the game. Best rock soundtrack of this gen too! A sequel could have redeemed the IP with most people, perhaps it isn't cancelled yet.

[Blaze929]

I actually liked WET....

[jessupj]

I thought it was a solid game too. Not as bad as people make out to be.

But yeah, def not worth $60, or $120 in Australia. It's a good rent thought.

"taste my special sauce!!"

[mastiffchild]

I can't agree. It's one of the shoddiest games I've played in a while, in this generation to be fair.

What made it worse was that the premise was OK(not the plot, mind, the plot was absolute cack and all the acting was totally dialled in and dead eyed)and that the sliding around,bullet timey action should have been enough to keep you partially interested for most of the game. They HAD the parts for a good game and threw it away.

What we got was half arsed in every way-I've spoken of plot and acting but the controls were woky and unpredictable and often you found yourself, or I did, feeling completely stupid as you ined yourself up for another run and slide just to get into bullet time when it would have made more sense just to cap the remaining idiots in the room. It felt like farce most of the time from the training onwards. If the controls had been slick enough you would have prolly not ended up with the situation too often but because they worked when they feltr like it I was always looking stupid and forcing in another wall run just because the normal shooting was so poor and so discouraged.

Wet as one of the very last games I played through before my 2010 new year resolution of stoppng a daft rule I had about finishing every game I start-and thank God I don't stick to doing that any more!! No more games like Wet to annoy me for ages and stop me playing good games. I know i'm an idiot for ever starting such a regime but as it worked for me with books(means I always gave a slow burner a chance to shine and many, many great books NEED a slow start)but, sadly, games aren't the same and it doesn't work for them. If a game starts shit for a few hours it's not liable tochange much in general and if it did you'd probably know before hand.

Anyway, I realise it's a free world and everything it's just i'm shocked so many of you liked Wet so much. I'd even want my time back if I'd rented it! Might even consider scratching it and reporting it damaged in the hope I might save someone else the pain of playing it!! Only kidding, glad you lot liked it but,seriously, I'll never see why. I'm AMAZED they even thought about a sequel to that mess, it didn't sell well or anything so why were they thinking about a sequel to a game which most people hated, sold poorly, reviewed poorly and the devs showed they couldn't pull it off even with decent tools and a decent premise? why think about a sequel in this case? the world had already spoken and said "no".

[jessupj]

I'm sensing you really hate WET and think it is the embodiment or even the physical manifestation of all that is wrong and evil in all bad games since the beggining of time and any shred of evidence of it's existance should be exterminated and any soul that even dare utter the word "wet" should be burned at the stake then his body mutilated and fed to the crows and dogs of old.

Yes?

[Tony P]

I agree for the most part. It was not a well-made game and it's noticeable in far too many elements of gameplay and design.

However, it would've been fine for them to attempt to correct the flaws in a sequel. If the sequel couldn't get it right... I dunno what to tell you.

[MasterD919]

Not the first game sequel to get canned or the last.

[JaeKuro]

Meh. I was deeply disappointed by the first one so I wasn't expecting much from a sequel. Sucks that they won't be redeeming themselves though because Wet had potential. At the end of the day, shit happens.

[Pintheshadows]

Didn't mind Wet but it was rough around the edges. Shame we won't see what the sequel could of been. Oh well, worse things have happened.

[Jack-H]

Wah wah wahhhh... I thought the first one had potential(said this elsewhere already) Too bad they pulled the plug, could have been interesting.

[SolidMGSnake]

Play Bayonetta instead.

[TheTwelve]

Rented it. It was all going decent until the stupid training stages --- gave me a headache. One of those games where the cutscenes are better than the game itself.

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[anasurimbor]

One less shovelware game to crowd the shelves. Okay by me.

[memphis2]

surprised it got a sequel, but not surprised sequel got canceled.

[supremacy]

lol i am sorry to say this, but the first game sucked. I mean the girl could literally slide any surface regardless of how awkward it may seemed.

The physics were poor and the narrative didn't help one bit.

I mean i don't know which is was worse, this game, stranglehold or the last dead to rights.

Its obvious that a lot of work needed to be done on those games before the launched, but this is what happens when you rush things and only think about the numbers.

[bangoskank]

Good. The demo sucked. Why would something like this deserve a sequel two years after the original but games like Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne and Skies of Arcadia don't have sequels nearly a decade or more after their releases? Did "Wet" even do well?