Matt Hazard PSN/XBLA out this week

By Tom Bramwell Published 5 January, 2010

Side-scrolling action parody.

Matt Hazard: Blood Bath and Beyond is due out on PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade this week.

The side-scrolling shooter, developed by Vicious Cycle, will cost 1200 Microsoft Points (£10.20 / €14.40) when it launches on XBLA tomorrow worldwide.

So far only the US PlayStation blog has confirmed the PSN release for this Thursday, with a price tag of $14.99, but we'll let you know if there's European clarification.

Like its rubbish big brother Eat Lead, Blood Bath and Beyond sees Matt Hazard re-engaging with his fictional back catalogue of nemeses, including the super evil General Neutronov, who has travelled back in time and kidnapped the 8-bit version our hero.

The idea is that Matt Hazard is a washed-up videogame character forced back for one last hurrah. Two last hurrahs. In this one, he fights penguins, pirates, astronauts, Mounties and rhinos, among other things.

Look out for a review soon.

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Comments (10) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • RandomTerrain #1 2 years ago

    A bit expensive for a downloadable game. It better be really good for that price.

  • JahB #2 2 years ago

    why even bother reviewing? eat lead was the worst game i have played in a long time, and i think it's fair to say that it is this gen's superman64. i can't quite imagine how they got the sign-off to ever make another game...

  • Beano #3 2 years ago

    Odds are that this will NOT be up on the European PSN Store this week.

  • midnight_walker #4 2 years ago

    I'll get this. I actually really enjoyed Eat Lead, I don't know what everyone's problem was.

  • reelbigkris #5 2 years ago

    That is expensive... I bought eat lead for its interesting concept, and partially due to Neil Patrick Harris... It's quite possibly one of the worst games i have ever played... all i can say is, thank god i was able to return it the next day to my local shop.

  • JahB #6 2 years ago

    @midnight walker

    the horrible level design, the pacing, the shoddy hit detection, the art direction (if there was any at all), the dialogue, the story and most of all - the gameplay, which was worse than some of the early 3rd person shooters on the ps2.

  • Roland_D11 #7 2 years ago

    A review would be nice, the glimpses of gameplay footage in the trailer didn't look bad. I think this could be way better than Eat Lead...

  • midnight_walker #8 2 years ago

    Gotta say, I really didn't notice any of that. Maybe it was because I was expecting it to be terrible, and it just wasn't. I dunno, each to their own, but I thought it was a decent enough romp (certainly not amazing, but not piss poor IMO) with some great humour tied in.

  • Murton #9 2 years ago

    Didn't mind Eat Lead at all. It was a solid first effort for a new studio, not the best game in the world but it was certainly entertaining, then again I like parodies and those one liners really cracked me up.

    The side-scroller looks pretty good and there aren't really enough side scrollers these days, depending on what the euro price comes out at I might take a look if only to partake in some side-scrolling nostalgia.

  • BBIAJ #10 2 years ago

    "It's Hazard Time!"

    Love it, and the game.