Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard: Gameplay, Platforms and Key Facts

Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard (2009) is a shooter video game developed by Vicious Cycle Software, available on PS3, X360. It holds an aggregated critic and player score of 51/100 on IGDB.

What is Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard about?

Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard is a third-person shooter video game for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 video game consoles. The game was developed by Vicious Cycle Software and published by D3 Publisher.

Eat Lead pits players in the role of the title character, a "legendary" gaming hero who is "returning to glory" in a new video game, some 25 years after his debut game and 6 years after his last game. In reality, the Matt Hazard character is in his first video game, with a history made up by D3 Publisher to chronicle the character's rise and fall in popularity. The Return of Matt Hazard marks Hazard's fictitious "comeback" to the gaming scene. Hazard is voiced by Will Arnett, while Neil Patrick Harris voices his nemesis Wallace "Wally" Wellesley.

The game itself is a parody of action-gaming clichés. The October 2008 debut trailer was done as a Behind the Music spoof called Inside

Key details

Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard was released in 2009 and supports single player. Platforms: PS3, X360. Developer: Vicious Cycle Software.

Should you play Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard?

Reviews are mixed, but Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard retains a dedicated player base among shooter fans.