Wetlands (PC) Playthrough - NintendoComplete

A playthrough of New World Computing’s 1995 FMV rail shooter for PCs running Dos, Wetlands. Played through on the “wet“ (medium) difficulty level. Wetlands is a game that I remember always wanting to play after seeing the full page ads that appeared in magazines. The graphics looked super-slick, and it seemed like a really high quality version of some of the FMV games that I loved on the Sega CD. I could never find a copy, though, so I never played it until way later. When I finally did, I was glad to find that I wasn’t wrong on, on either count, with what I imagined Wetlands to be. It is a rail-shooter, with enemies and other things to be destroyed layered as sprites over top of pre-rendered CG video backdrops. It’s a method that was used quite often in the mid 90s to varying levels of success in nearly every genre. Wetlands is most directly comparable to games like Neo Hunter, Virtua Cop, Chaos Control, and Sewer Shark. It was actually developed by the same