YMMV / Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard

• Awesome Music: The song that plays in the credits.
• Disappointing Last Level: The last two levels.
• Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game: The actual gameplay is an average to mediocre third person shooter that has little innovation, but the story makes up for it for being an Affectionate Parody of many gaming tropes and does it well for the most part.
• Even Better Sequel: The gameplay in Blood Bath & Beyond is pretty tight, being a much simpler side-scrolling shooter instead of the cover-based shooter the first game tried to be. It's also only $15.
• Harsher in Hindsight: QA tells Matt that he doesn't have to worry about fellow heavily-armed action hero Nuke Winter, since his next game won't be released for years. When Duke Nukem Forever's studio shut down, the joke became less funny...until it was announced that Forever would in fact be released in 2011. No, seriously.
• Heartwarming Moments: In a game so viciously parodic of gaming, you'd expect it to take potshots at franchises left and right, but Matt Hazard actually has great respect for a lot of his fellow video game characters, and peering through the Lawyer-Friendly Cameo filter, you have scenes like Matt commending Master Chief on his success, and telling Mario he's a hero to more than just gamers.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The intro describes Marathon's financial downfall as going down faster than a "non-violent watergun based 3rd person shooter" with the release of a go-kart spinoff. Come 2015, and such a game would end up being enormously successful and praised precisely for its unique liquid-based premise (albeit with ink instead of water). Soak 'Em's logo even resembles Splatoon's and has the orange-blue color palette used by the first game.
  • There actually was a water gun-based shooter released just four months after Eat Lead, as a WiiWare game.
  • May double as Harsher in Hindsight but considering Marathon Megasoft's logo is tinted in red and the questionable undeniably evil actions of another game company whose logo was also red?
  • The plot being about a company called "Marathon Megasoft" trying to kill off its former mascot seems eerily prescient now that Epic Megagames has similarly gone out of its way to bury its breakout Unreal franchise in the 2020s.
• Replacement Scrappy: Sting Sniperscope was meant to be this until Matt took him out instead.
• The Scrappy: Wally is possibly the most annoying Big Bad ever.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: The music for the Space Marine-themed level bears striking similarity to Halo's theme song.

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