Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard

TVGB: So maybe Matt Hazard's first outing wasn't as good as we hoped but we're all for second chances here. D3 isn't ready to let its satirical action hero go and is probably creating a second game in the Matt Hazard universe. Last week D3 filed for the trademark of Matt Hazard: Blood Bath and Beyond. We're pretty sure it is a game because it's filed under the software and electronic games category. The jury is still out on whether this game will be a full scale retail title or purely downloadable.

LusoGamer has an exclusive video of Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard. Hope you enjoy.

The game casts the player as Matt Hazard, a retired videogame action hero who's career was torn apart by shoddy franchise cash-ins. Given one last chance of stardom by the owner of videogame publishing giant Marathon Software, Wallace Wally Wellesley, he jumps in head first – only to find that not everything is as it seems.

Joystiq writes: D3Publisher is working on a retro-style side-scrolling XBLA and PSN action game intended to fill in the backstory of Matt Hazard, the lead character of Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard. It's planned for release sometime this summer. (Eat Lead launches against Halo Wars on March 3.) If you're not hip to Eat Lead's hook, it's supposed to be the latest game in a long-running series, and Matt Hazard is supposed to be a video game icon. Only it isn't and he's not. The downloadable game is ostensibly one of his past titles being made available for the first time in years. Only it's not. Get it? We'd hazard a guess that this game could do well -- if the synthetic nostalgia and in-jokes of Eat Lead aren't lost on the larger gaming audience.

Electronic Theatre contacted D3 Publisher late last night to try and confirm these rumours, one way or another, and received the following statement in response first thing this morning:

VG247: D3Publishing has released a ton of new media for its spoof-action hero shooter, Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard. Vicious Cycle Software's Matt Hazard is a fictional video game character from the 80's who is now making a comeback six years after his last game. The three videos that show some old and new school graphics and the groovy new images can all be seen below.

The adaptable, easy-to-learn middleware has been used to design games of every style, including Adventure/Platform games like Dead Head Fred and the best-selling Flushed Away, deeply addictive casual fare like Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords for PlayStation2 and PlayStation Portable, and even instructional/educational titles like Discover Babylon and INNOV8. Vicious Cycle Software recently announced...

TVGB: ...the question hot on our minds popped up in a recent interview clip with Hazard in which he claims to have not only bedded, but also been the cause of an unnamed English female who raids tombs' current success. Our crack reporters and top scientists used logic to deduce that he was discussing none other than Lara Croft. We had to find out just what getting it on with her was like.

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