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GENERAL INFORMATION
GENRE/STYLE
Shooter/Third-Person 3D Shooter
RELEASE DATE
03/MAR/09
ESRB RATING
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DESCRIPTION
Players can blast the bad guys, score the hot chicks, and kick down the fourth wall of gaming in Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard, a shooter that satirizes video game mythology and industry clichés. Matt Hazard, voiced by Arrested Development's Will Arnett, is a Duke Nukem-esque hero whose years of unemployment have him looking to reclaim his throne as the king of over-the-top action games. In reality, Eat Lead is Hazard's debut game, but developer Vicious Cycle and publisher D3 have concocted an elaborate backstory for the character, placing him in a dozen fictional games such as 1983's seminal side-scrolling shooter "The Adventures of Matt in Hazard Land," the GoldenEye 007 parody "You Only Live 1,317 Times," and "Haz-Matt Carts," Hazard's inevitable slip into kart-racing purgatory.
Unfortunately for Hazard, fictitious developer "Marathon Software" spread his character too thin, and by the time of 2002's Viva Piñata-esque children's game "Choking Hazard: Candy Gramm," he was a washed-up has-been. But Eat Lead offers redemption, as gamers help Hazard on a quest for blood and relevance in the first actual game among his 13 fictional adventures. Though primarily a third-person 3D shooter, the game's story and style are subject to dramatic graphical, sound, and gameplay changes because the comeback is not exactly what Hazard envisioned. It seems that Wallace Wellesley, a Marathon executive voiced by Neil Patrick Harris, created Eat Lead as an elaborate ruse designed to make Hazard's life even more miserable. Continuous hacking of the game causes a number of inexplicable situations, such as Hazard fending off gun-toting cowboys in a futuristic space station, and only gamers can help the gruff protagonist make sense of the chaos and resurrect his career. ~ Christopher Brown, All Game Guide
Past 14 days
“Hilarious if you have a vast game history knowledge but not that funny if you dont ”
“Hilarious if you have a vast game history knowledge but not that funny if you dont ”
created 24/OCT/2009
“It doesn't start out that bad, it's funny, the cover system is pretty cool, but then you realize as you play the game, it's the exact same gameplay the whole game. In all 8 levels, all you do it hide behind cover, and shoot, that's it, if you've...”
“It doesn't start out that bad, it's funny, the cover system is pretty cool, but then you realize as you play the game, it's the exact same gameplay the whole game.
In all 8 levels, all you do it hide behind cover, and shoot, that's it, if you've played one level, you've played them all. It quickly becomes tedious.
If not for the humor, I would have given this game 2 stars.”
created 06/OCT/2009
“Beat the game! I know why I don't really play games on the hardest setting, it's no fun dying over and over. When I played thru some of the levels to get the rest of the trophies, it was much more...”
created 05/OCT/2009
“Still in the last level, but I got farther, but I'm still dying a lot,”
created 04/OCT/2009
“I'm at the last level of the game, and I have died over 100 times at this certain spot, it's infuriating. ”
created 03/OCT/2009
“Beat the fifth level, the boss was a parody of the Kraken from the second Pirates of the Caribbean movie. I died a lot, though I am playing it on the hardest difficulty Huh weird, I got more then...”
created 02/OCT/2009
EarthboundX was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...
“Beat the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th levels. Got seven more trophies. ”
created 01/OCT/2009
EarthboundX was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...
“Beat the first level, so far this game doesn't seem as bad as reviews said it was, plus it's funny. Also got my first 5 or 6 PS3 trophies! I'm liking the trophies system. ”
created 30/SEP/2009
EarthboundX was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...
“Un'idea interessantissima che però è stata completamente distrutta da un gameplay vecchio di 10 anni. Sistema di mira imprecisissimo che mina i n maniera estrema il fattore divertimento, che è invece ben guidato dalle parodie del mondo dei...”
“Un'idea interessantissima che però è stata completamente distrutta da un gameplay vecchio di 10 anni. Sistema di mira imprecisissimo che mina i n maniera estrema il fattore divertimento, che è invece ben guidato dalle parodie del mondo dei videogames.”
created 17/SEP/2009
“This game is so parodistic, but so fuckin' worst...”
created 16/SEP/2009
“Completed the Eat Lead platinum trophy! Hooray!”
created 30/AUG/2009
“I wasn't aware this was a parody of action games until I started playing. Needless to say, I was pleasantly surprised. The humour draws heavily on familiar FPS, platformers, and RPGs. The gameplay can be too easy at times and frustrating at...”
“I wasn't aware this was a parody of action games until I started playing. Needless to say, I was pleasantly surprised. The humour draws heavily on familiar FPS, platformers, and RPGs.
The gameplay can be too easy at times and frustrating at others, but the game's tone keeps you moving.”
created 28/AUG/2009
“Unlocked 9 trophies.”
created 27/JUN/2009
“Played a little Matt Hazard today. About an hour, advanced past the Russian boss and proceeded to be sniped a few times on the next level. Might play some more later not sure. ”
created 15/JUN/2009
“I really wanted this one to be good, because the meta-tastic premise was fun.”
created 12/JUN/2009
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