Matt Hazard: Blood Bath and Beyond

[Qalbert]

Matt Hazard Rearms With Blood Bath and Beyond - Matt Hazard: Bloodbath and Beyond - Kotaku

Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard wasn't so great. But at least it was conceptually interesting. And, at the very least, the Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network bound Matt Hazard: Blood Bath and Beyond has a great title.

D3Publisher's side-scrolling follow up to the Matt Hazard franchise, fictionally some two decades old, will be coming to PSN and XBLA this winter, according to an official announcement, looking a bit Shadow Complex-ish. It's a time traveling adventure, with Hazard tasked with saving the 8-bit version of himself as he progress through his previous games, titles like The Adventures of Matt in Hazard Land and Chest of the Pirate Queen.

And Mirror's Edge apparently!

The satire's there. Let's just hope that developer Vicious Cycle can turn Matt Hazard: Blood Bath and Beyond's premise into something fun to play.

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inb4 bitching about kotaku

[Kiarax]

Kotaku? Get the fuck outta here.

I didn't even realize the first had come out, sounds like it bombed, lol.

[Weeks]

Blood Bath and Beyond has a great title.

Well yeah, you blatantly steal a joke from the golden era of The Simpsons, it's going to be pretty good...

[Atreides]

IS IT LIKE METROIDVANIA??!?

[Brill Weave]

Eat Lead wasn't a horrible game. The controls were fairly bad and the graphics were very outdated. But the story and interactions with Matt Hazard were hilarious. Imagine playing a game where the main character routinely breaks the fourth wall and also has a snarky comment about anything happening in the game. There are some LOL moments in the first one. If the gamplay matched the ambition of the character interactions, it would have been a fantastic game.

[Qalbert]

Eat Lead wasn't a horrible game. The controls were fairly bad and the graphics were very outdated. But the story and interactions with Matt Hazard were hilarious. Imagine playing a game where the main character routinely breaks the fourth wall and also has a snarky comment about anything happening in the game. There are some LOL moments in the first one. If the gamplay matched the ambition of the character interactions, it would have been a fantastic game.

pretty much sums it up, great humor, great VAs, meh gameplay/graphics