Matt Hazard Returns 31
D3Publisher has announced Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard, bringing everyone's favorite gun-toting superstar back to the forefront of gaming culture. Or at least, that's what they tell us. Nobody's actually ever seen or played a Matt Hazard title before; it's just a clever marketing campaign for what is essentially a parody game based on popular shooter standards. They've even made a fake history of Matt Hazard games. "Eat Lead parodies some of our fondest memories in classic gaming and pop culture, so gamers will have a laugh out loud experience everytime they pick-up the controller," said Pete Andrew, a D3P exec.
Platform irony (Score:2, Interesting)
This is a console game, no PC version announced. So, 90% of the players won't get the jokes that are supposedly about old school FPS, and the people who would appreciate the jokes won't be playing the game. On top of that, D3, the publisher, has a fairly bad record of the way they handle PC publishing -- see Puzzle Quest, in which they used a PC demo to showcase the game early on, but did not deliver a PC full version until a year after the consoles, and when they did, there was no matchmaking service for multiplayer.
I think this will turn out to be a pretty good exercise in futility.