WET also known as hard boiled gaming fun.

With the holidays soon approaching and many fantastic game releases upon us, (see Modern Warfare 2, Left 4 Dead 2, and Assassin's Creed 2) I have to thank the public library system for allowing me to partake in one of the ones that may have been left to the side for most folks, that is nonetheless a quality game as well.
There was quite a bit of hype for a little while for the lead in during the "off months" of releases wherein there really wasn't much of note coming out, just everyone frothing at the mouth of potential things to come via reports from E3 and PAX. The big get for the title from the boys at Bethesda (Fallout 3) was everyone's spunky, sexy, hot badass fantasy girl Eliza Dushku. If you disagree with me on this watch a few episodes of Dollhouse, or an old episode of Buffy. She lends he vocal talents to our lead character Rubi and is joined by a very small handful of talented actors. Now to go on explaining any plot to the game almost seems a bit silly as the game pretty much is laid out as if you were in control of a crazy grindhouse/hard boiled drive-in action movie, complete with film grain effects, missing reel animatics, film burn and 1950's era advertisements for things like Chilly Dilly pickles. All that's really needed to be said is there's a badass hot girl that dual wields revolvers and hacks people to pieces with a sword from her back... now take this controller and use that button to shoot.
Its very entertaining, the control system is very simple and easy to learn and allows for you to jump right in and let the bodies start to fall and the blood to spill. It eventually becomes yet another game of how many bad guys can I knock off and chain together in one long acrobatic slo-motion sequence. There are three kind of sequences you will find yourself controlling Rubi through, a main point A to B map platform in which you kill the horde of baddies intent on shooting you, a chase sequence in which you are unable to steal a car find yourself jumping on and over traffic while gunning and hacking your way to your target, and a rage mode in which someone dares get shot and spill blood all over Rubi and she goes full out breserker rage and you try to accumulate the largest "chain-kill" possible. Once you play through the story mode, and you most definitely will, you will unlock challenges and other story mode options. Challenges are mostly run and gun target shooting races against the clock in Rubi's training area, there is a points run mode for each level of story mode as well, tho I find once the initial game play is finished the challenges and extra content loses its luster very quickly and becomes a bit repetitive and either too difficult and/or boring.
Now while the game is quite thoroughly enjoying as I said it isn't very long and once you complete the initial story mode it will quickly become fairly repetitive, so unless you're an achievement freak you'll most likely tire of it within a week or so. So final verdict big kudos for originality, style, flow, and fun, but while it does a great many things right it will not last for very long in the console of your choice. So while I would love to say go right out and make this a purchase I can't because this is easily a must play but definitely not a must buy. So find a way to pick it up and give it a run through while you're saving up the cash for the new Call of Duty, or Assassin's Creed, it'll make you feel at least like you aren't completely missing out on all the fun. (insert smile here)