Rank and Play ID: RNP-IGDB-574

Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard

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Critic rating

46.3 / 100

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Release

Feb 26, 2009

Genres

Shooter

Overview

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 pits players in the role of the title character, a "legendary" gaming hero who is "returning to glory" in a new video game, some 25 years after his debut game and 6 years after his last game. In reality, the Matt Hazard character is in his first video game, with a history made up by D3 Publisher to chronicle the character's rise and fall in popularity. The Return of Matt Hazard marks Hazard's fictitious "comeback" to the gaming…

Storyline

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 Well…