6 Games That Did Violence Like the Movies

When it comes to combat in video games, many go the way of blood and guts for the sake of blood and guts, with boring and unimaginative gameplay mechanics. There’s only so many ways to slice a ninja to pieces or shoot a bad dude that’s out to get you. That’s why when a game does something interesting with those mechanics—something truly entertaining or intriguing—it’s worth celebrating. More often than not, games that actually do something a little neat with their fighting borrow those moves and shots from film. There’s something decidedly cinematic about the following six video games. 6. ‘WET’ Let me be clear: Wet is not a good game. It has its fair share of problems, many of which are tied to the game’s writing, but the actual combat system is perhaps one of my absolute favorites. It’s not that it tries to do anything particularly revolutionary so much as it combines several different bits together in a stylish way. The big gimmick in Wet is that main character Rubi,…

by Rollin Bishop