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Matt Hazard Returns

Posted by Soulskill on from the blast-from-the-not-past dept.

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.

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  1. So essentially by Misanthrope · · Score: 5, Funny

    A game that closely parodies shooters including Duke Nukem.....was developed and came out before Duke Nukem Forever....

    1. Re:So essentially by PhasmatisApparatus · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I can't help but get the feeling that someone got impatient waiting for DNF and decided to take matters into their own hands. And like DNF, it quickly became a joke.

    2. Re:So essentially by kosamae · · Score: 2, Insightful

      How can you parody "Duke Nukem" when it was already a parody of action movie hero stereotypes?

  2. Viral marketing by PhasmatisApparatus · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's amazing how well it works. It looks like people have already started to copy and repost the Matt hazard YouTube videos.

  3. They already made this game.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It was called Serious Sam

  4. Platform irony by Anonymous Coward · · 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.

  5. The "Fake History" site is great... by pushing-robot · · Score: 3, Informative

    The java image ripple, the explosion animated gifs, the colors, the red frames around images, the webring footer, the 404-ed image links, the table-based design with nary a div or stylesheet — it really feels like a ten year old geocities page.

    The only things I could imagine would "improve" it are a lower-color (web safe!) background image, entirely square-cornered sidebars, and no Google ad bar.

    Still, I've seen a lot of parody "old" pages, and this is one of the best. Kudos to the designer!

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  6. Re:Who? by NoobixCube · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Again, I would like to point out an acronym I suggested a while back: OFFSALRTFS! - "Oh For Fuck's Sake At Least Read The Fucking Summary!" The logical progression from RTFA.

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  7. Re:Who? by hairyfeet · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Too long and hard to remember. I suggest RTFSS "Read The Fucking Summary Shithead". It is nice and short,clear and to the point. And of course for those that refuse to even bother to look in the manual before asking stupid questions you could have RTFMD "Read The Fucking Manual Douchebag" which again is short(only one extra letter),clear and gets your irritation across. Both are certainly easier to remember at 3AM than OFFSALRTFS!

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