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Aqua Aqua: Wetrix 2 for PlayStation 2
Aqua Aqua: Wetrix 2 for PlayStation 2 is about controlling water across a three-dimensional landscape. Pieces of terrain fall from above and raise or lower the ground when you place them. Rain fills hollows, while bombs, fire and earthquakes can damage the landscape you have built. You try to keep lakes contained by dikes while scoring enough points before too much water flows over the edge.
Story mode divides its puzzles across four environments, each with its own weather and hazards. Puzzle gives you a fixed problem and a limited number of terrain pieces, so the order and position of every move matter. Quick Play starts immediately with a board, while Training calmly explains how Uppers, Downers, lakes, evaporation and special items work together. You can rotate the camera around the field to see height differences and weak banks more clearly.
A separate Battle mode lets two players compete on the same PlayStation 2 with two DualShock 2 controllers. Well-built lakes send attacks to the other field, but a poorly placed bomb can break your own dikes. Aqua Aqua needs no continuing network service and is fully contained on the disc. The name Wetrix 2 refers to the earlier puzzle game Wetrix; this page specifically covers the PlayStation 2 release Aqua Aqua, not a later digital reissue.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 2 games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
Aqua Aqua: Wetrix 2 for PlayStation 2 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Aqua Aqua: Wetrix 2
Zed Two developed Aqua Aqua as a sequel to Wetrix. SCi Games released the European PlayStation 2 version in 2000, close to the console’s launch. The original Wetrix had already shown on Nintendo 64, Windows and Dreamcast how falling shapes could reshape a landscape. Aqua Aqua kept that foundation but gave the rules a clearer progression and a presentation built around four worlds and guiding characters.
The technology was built around a fully rotatable playing field. Water therefore had to do more than act as a flat meter: it visibly flowed down slopes, gathered in hollows and escaped through damaged edges. A new training mode and short puzzles explained the unusual rules step by step. Battle used two simultaneous fields and turned careful water management into a direct duel without replacing the central system with an unrelated minigame.
In North America the game appeared under the shorter name AquaAqua, while European packaging often says Aqua Aqua: Wetrix 2. It is the same PlayStation 2 puzzle game, not a separate second product. Zed Two later became part of Warthog, but the water-and-landscape system remained most closely associated with Wetrix. This physical release preserves the early PS2 version with Story, Puzzle, Quick Play, Training and local Battle on one disc.
Similar games for PlayStation 2
Tetris Worlds drops flat blocks into a rectangular well and rewards complete horizontal lines. Aqua Aqua also uses falling shapes, but they reshape a three-dimensional landscape where water actually flows towards low points. Both demand quick spatial thinking; Wetrix 2 is less about a perfect row and more about strong banks, controlled lakes and reacting to weather disasters.
Super Bust-A-Move connects coloured bubbles and removes groups when matching colours touch. Aqua Aqua has no colour matching: every piece raises or lowers terrain and affects the flow of water. Both offer short puzzles and local competition, but Bust-A-Move asks for precise shooting angles while Wetrix 2 puts an entire landscape under your control.
Fantavision asks you to capture fireworks of the same colour and detonate them at the right moment. Its action takes place in the sky and revolves around chains and score. Aqua Aqua also uses falling elements and steadily rising pressure, but turns every move into ground height, dikes and lakes. The result is more tactical and less dependent on colour recognition.
Bombastic uses dice that roll across squares and disappear when their top values match the size of the group. Like Aqua Aqua, it combines an unusual spatial rule with puzzles and a two-player duel. Bombastic remains on a numbered grid; Wetrix 2 simulates height and water, so a single opening can drain an entire lake.
Mr. Driller sends a character down through coloured blocks while the oxygen meter keeps falling. Aqua Aqua stays above the field and instead asks you to build terrain. Both constantly introduce new pieces and punish delay, but Mr. Driller searches for a safe route downward; Wetrix 2 contains water and watches the entire landscape at once.
