Matt Hazard makes a “comeback” with game for PSN, XBL

Following the public’s renewed interest in him, Matt Hazard, video game action hero since 1983, will get to have one of his classic games released on Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network this summer. Long live the Hazard!

Following the public’s renewed interest in him, Matt Hazard, video game action hero since 1983, will get to have one of his classic games released on Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network this summer. Long live the Hazard!

I am well aware that Matt Hazard never existed until last year, but it’s just easier to talk about him with respect to his own fictional world. In case you haven’t heard of him, Matt Hazard is the hero of Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard. He has a made-up history of 25 years of video games (though he’s been out of work for six years).

The game that will be released on XBL and PSN is supposedly one of his “classic” games (that never really existed, mind you). Judging from the artwork, it’s most likely “Goonzilla Versus Mega-Matt” which Matt Hazard’s “unofficially OFFICIAL” guide describes as:

A sorry attempt to bring Matt Hazard into the Asian market. Available only on import in the US, this game pitts a radioactively-enhanced Matt against a rampaging mobster– turned-reptile that is threatening to destroy the city of Osaka, Japan. Not a great game, but serious collectorÂ’s item if you can get your hands on it.

And I will get my hands on it. It’s a classic after all. Eat Lead: the Return of Matt Hazard (PS3, 360) will be released on March 3.

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Via Shack News