Console Heroes writes: "When it comes to action game heroes, what is the first name that comes to mind? Is it Matt Hazard? Of course it's not, but in the fictitious world in which Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard takes place it would be. Matt Hazard is a video game character who catapulted to super videogame stardom in the 1980's and who, like so many Hollywood starlets and Rock Stars, became too big for his own good, subsequently selling out to anyone who would buy and, later, crashing and burning into an inglorious retirement. Eat Lead is the story of Matt's "comeback," a new game designed to bring him back into the spotlight and restore him to his former glory.
As it turns out, however, this game is really a ploy to eliminate Hazard, and the plot of the game revolves around his attempts to not only escape the game but also get rid of the real life bad guy who wants rid of him. What really drives the game's story, however, is the hilarious satire of the gaming world as a whole. Eat Lead seems to be a "fan spoof" – a video game making fun of video games but done in the spirit of reverence for gaming as a whole. The humor is handled very well in this game, and I have to say that I enjoyed the one-liners and spoofs on games very much..."
Can you judge a video game by its bad, sometimes bonkers box art? More often than not.
The Phalanx cover I do remember well, to be fair it did show a star ship on the cover too.
The worst box art in recent memory was the Doom 2016 one. That cover was depressingly generic.
We groan at the cheese. Also, The Master of Disguise.
One of our newest writers Ewan takes a look at the gaming past and with that we present to you, Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard – Forgotten But Not Gone!
