Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard
Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard is a third-person shooter video game for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 video game consoles. The game was developed by Vicious Cycle Software and published by D3 Publisher…
Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard is a shooter developed by Vicious Cycle Software, released 26 February 2009 on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The main story takes about 13 hrs to finish.
What Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard is
Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard is a shooter game developed by Vicious Cycle Software and released in 2009. It was published by D3 Publisher. It is available on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It runs on Vicious Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard follows a legendary, washed-up 1980s video game hero who is lured into a "next-gen" comeback game, only to discover it is a deadly trap orchestrated by Wallace "Wally" Wellesley, a vengeful corporate executive who blames Matt for ruining his childhood. Wellesley hacks the game's source code to permanently delete Matt, forcing the action hero to fight through a glitchy, changing digital matrix filled with hostile parodies of various gaming genres, from space marines to JRPG characters. Aided by a rogue quality-assurance programmer named QA, Matt successfully battles through the corrupted levels, defeats Wellesley's digital defenses, and restores his status…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard holds a critic score of 46 out of 100. That places it above 8% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 21 points below the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 13 hrs.
What it launched against
Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard launched on 26 February 2009, within three weeks of Demon's Souls, Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Resident Evil 5 and Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Demon's Souls, Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Resident Evil 5, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned.
Official trailer
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