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Matt Hazard: Blood Bath and Beyond Review
Published on Sunday, February 14 2010
- Released on: January 6th (360) & January 7th (Ps3)
- Platforms: XBLA, PsN
- Publisher: D3Publisher of America, INC
- Developer: Vicious Cycle Software, INC
- ESRB: M
- Genre: Platformer Shooter
- Players: 1
- Co-op: 1-2
This review will cover the Xbox Live Arcade version.
Matt Hazard is a video game actor who lost work six months ago. In his second installment, he heads back into time and revisits his previous games to stop the evil corporation called Marathon MegaCorp from destroying our so-called hero. General Neutronov is back and plans on deleting Matt’s past self.
Unlike Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard, this game is a 2D side-scroller shooter, to give it that retro feel, but it also leaves in the 3D element to make it seem somewhat modern. It’s interesting to see how they utilize the background, allowing you to shoot in the back, as well as the traditional sideways shooting. If you shoot an enemy in a certain way, you get to see their body and/or blood, splatter on the TV screen.
Once you start up the game, you have three difficulty settings to choose from: wussy, damn this is hard and f—this sh--. If you feel like just messing around, stick with the wussy setting. The harder settings are just that, killing you after only a few hits.
Co-op is a nice feature for this game but sadly, it isn’t drop-in-and-out co-op. If you want to play with a friend, you have to start the game from the very beginning.
Controls are simple. X to shoot, A to jump, LT to shoot enemies in the background and RT for your grenades.
You start the game with a good amount of lives and three continues. Once those are used up, you must start the level from the beginning. That is, unless you play it on the wussy setting. You are equipped with an infinite amount of continues.
One of the enemies that you will encounter on the first level is almost a spitting image of a Big Daddy from the BioShock series. As you head down into this ship, it’s clear that BBB is making fun of rapture. Staying true to Eat Lead, BBB plans on making fun of other video games, as well as itself, including Uncharted, Mirror’s Edge, Canada, the movie Short Circuit, Team Fortress, Mario Brothers and countless other games.
Overall, this game is a good buy for 1200MS points if you are into retro video games and the one-liners that pokes fun of them and the industry. After playing this game, I wish more companies would release games this fun, reminding a lot of us, of our roots.
Unlike Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard, this game is a 2D side-scroller shooter, to give it that retro feel, but it also leaves in the 3D element to make it seem somewhat modern. It’s interesting to see how they utilize the background, allowing you to shoot in the back, as well as the traditional sideways shooting. If you shoot an enemy in a certain way, you get to see their body and/or blood, splatter on the TV screen.
Once you start up the game, you have three difficulty settings to choose from: wussy, damn this is hard and f—this sh--. If you feel like just messing around, stick with the wussy setting. The harder settings are just that, killing you after only a few hits.
Co-op is a nice feature for this game but sadly, it isn’t drop-in-and-out co-op. If you want to play with a friend, you have to start the game from the very beginning.
Controls are simple. X to shoot, A to jump, LT to shoot enemies in the background and RT for your grenades.
You start the game with a good amount of lives and three continues. Once those are used up, you must start the level from the beginning. That is, unless you play it on the wussy setting. You are equipped with an infinite amount of continues.
One of the enemies that you will encounter on the first level is almost a spitting image of a Big Daddy from the BioShock series. As you head down into this ship, it’s clear that BBB is making fun of rapture. Staying true to Eat Lead, BBB plans on making fun of other video games, as well as itself, including Uncharted, Mirror’s Edge, Canada, the movie Short Circuit, Team Fortress, Mario Brothers and countless other games.
Overall, this game is a good buy for 1200MS points if you are into retro video games and the one-liners that pokes fun of them and the industry. After playing this game, I wish more companies would release games this fun, reminding a lot of us, of our roots.
Score - 7/10
