Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard

After several years of sitting around gaining weight, Matt recieves an offer from his former publisher Marathon Megasoft to attempt a comeback in the video game industry. Matt, eager for another chance, quickly agrees, but soon learns that he has been tricked by some old enemies who just want to finish him off for good. When you have a last name like Hazard, you usually do not take getting stabbed in the back easy, so Matt sets off on a tongue and cheek quest for revenge that will parody popular gaming culture for the last several years. 

The actual game play of The Return of Matt Hazard is a third person shooter with a cover mechanic. What sets the game apart from the market's standard third person shooter is the fact that levels are constantly changing. Something keeps tinkering with the code of the game which brings peices of Matt Hazard's gaming past back to haunt him mid-level. You may suddenly change from being in a back alley to being in a Old West town with cowboys and Indians having a standoff. Halfway through that encounter, zombies, mafia henchmen, or any other kind of go to gaming enemy imaginable has a chance of appearing and twisting the world in a whole new way. 

Besides Dave Ellis, Vicious Cycle has recruited several other well respected names for this game. Will Arnet of Arrested Development and 30 Rock fame will be voicing Matt Hazard and Neil Patrick Harris of How I Met Your Mother and Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle will be voicing the executive of Marathon Megasoft, Wallace "Wally" Wellesley. As a teaser for the game, D3 has released two screenshots of the games Matt Hazard was said to star in. The first, titled The Adventures of Matt in Hazard Land, is a 1983 arcade shooter in the vein of Contra. The second, titled Conflict of the Deities, is a SNES and Genesis era game in which Matt has traveled back in time to battle beasts of ancient Greek mythology.

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