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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....

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

    It was called Serious Sam

  3. 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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