D3 reveals satirical shooter 'Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard'

by Ludwig Kietzmann { Oct 3rd 2008 at 11:40AM }

Vicious Cycle Software and D3Publisher have decided it's time to poke fun at our beloved (but grizzled!) space marines, revealing the first, scant details of their upcoming Xbox 360 and PS3 shooter, Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard. According to the press release, the award-winning writer behind Dead Head Fred, Dave Ellis, came up with the whole shebang-bang-bang.

As you might expect from a modern third-person shooter -- even a humorous one -- Eat Lead will employ a cover system (dubbed "point and cover") and "different interactive melee moves." Provided the game remembers that taking potshots at the genre doesn't exclude it from being judged as a shooter, The Return of Matt Hazard in Q1 2009 may just be welcomed. In fact, we're just about ready to join Matt's appropriately and believably terrible fansite.

Gallery: Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard (PS3, 360)

Tags: D3, D3Publisher, Dave-Ellis, Eat-Lead, Eat-Lead-The-Return-of-Matt-Hazard, Parody, Satire

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Brent @ Oct 3rd 2008 11:48AM

The fansite is awesome. The only thing that would make it more awesome is if it was hosted by geocities.

Duke @ Oct 3rd 2008 12:15PM

That would be even funnier. Good call.

Now, this game will probably be one of the must have titles of all friggin time! However, I urge them to not let Dexter Dare in this title. He ruined things before.

Mr ESC,Lives Again. @ Oct 3rd 2008 11:53AM

When I bought Battlefield Bad Company I thought the game was a parody of every current FPS like in the commercials,sadly it wasn't.

I hope this one delivers,meanwhile the site is full of win.

Nigeria @ Oct 3rd 2008 12:06PM

That Haz-Matt Carts looks very believable.

If this game is genuinely funny, and it mocks the pathetic seriousness of Halo/Killzone and all that, then I'll go for it. Funny games are real hard to come by, especially in the first/third person shooter genres.

Tiptup300 @ Oct 3rd 2008 12:51PM

Portal

AoE @ Oct 3rd 2008 3:13PM

That's quite a long list of humorous FPS there Tiptup! Way to prove him wrong!

GST @ Oct 3rd 2008 4:37PM

Giants: Citizen Kabuto and Armed and Dangerous were funny, but it has been awhile since those Planet Moon gems.

I think, in the screen shots, I see Matt fighting both strange labcoat goons who disappear in a weird blue dissentigrate sort of way and some zombie that appears to be warping in from hell.
If my guesses are right, I hope the enemies also include:
Robotic Ninjas
Dinosaurs
At least 2 species of out-of-water marine life
Russians
Nazis
English-speaking Aliens
Bears
At least one evil/amoral sentient computer being

dark_inchworm @ Oct 3rd 2008 12:08PM

I need this to be awesome.

Obie @ Oct 3rd 2008 12:12PM

Matt Hazard? Cousin of Duke Nukem?

Titanium_Orchid @ Oct 3rd 2008 12:23PM

Bastard son of Serious Sam

Marty @ Oct 3rd 2008 12:31PM

I'm sure he's somehow related to Will Rock as well. Obscure, I know, but there actually was a Serious Sam clone by the same name.

Dirty @ Oct 3rd 2008 12:52PM

Grand son of Taradino Cassatt

Ranus Studios @ Oct 3rd 2008 12:41PM

There's nothing about this that I don't like.

Vegeta (aka Ska Oreo) @ Oct 3rd 2008 12:42PM

A game making fun of how ridiculous fps games are these days? Fuck yeah I'm in.

Jacksons @ Oct 3rd 2008 12:44PM

Dead Head Fred was outstanding, so I'll keep an eye on this.

Eleniel @ Oct 3rd 2008 12:45PM

I was wondering when someone was finally going to get around to parodying all the super-gritty space marine shooters. Awesome!

AoE @ Oct 3rd 2008 4:42PM

Uhh.... they got around to it in 1996 with the release of Duke Nukem 3D, and again in the early 2000's with Serious Sam ;)

aj @ Oct 4th 2008 12:58AM

....and does no one remember "PO'ed"? (Or was that less a parody and more just bad? Hard to tell.)

...and as far as I can tell, "Postal 2" was intended to be a parody, and worked fairly well as a social statement, but was more "stupid" than "witty" in the end. But it still counts.