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D3Publisher has today announced the development of Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard,a third-person shooter with a sense of humour for Xbox 360 and PS3.
The original game stars video game action hero Matt Hazard, who gets his chance to prove once and for all that he is the king of shooters. Owner of a mega game publisher, Marathon Megasoft, gives Matt his comeback role starring in a new title for next-gen consoles that pits him against all of his memorable foes from video games past.
In the world of Eat Lead everything stops being a game and becomes reality when it is clear that someone is using the new game to bring about Matt’s death once and for all. With only the mysterious ‘QA’ to help him, Matt must fight against Marathon Megasoft’s catalogue of video game characters to keep it from being ‘Game Over’ forever. The game’s story has been written by 2008 Writer’s Guild Award winner, Dave Ellis.
“Eat Lead parodies some of our fondest memories in classic gaming and pop culture, so gamers will have a laugh out loud experience every time they pick-up the controller,” said, Pete Andrew, vice president, product development, North America, D3P. “With an original storyline, Eat Lead perfectly blends action and humour with rock solid gameplay for an experience like no other.”
The game will pay homage to titles of yesteryear and promises to feature classic enemies such as zombies, space marines, cowboys, genetically mutated super snipers and more. Uniquely Hazard’s nemesis will be able to alter the game’s code on the fly, resulting in changes to the game’s levels.
Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard is in development at Vicious Cycle Software and is planned for release in Q1 2009.
