Eurogamer writes: "Hey! Aren't videogames silly? Eat Lead says so. It's an attempted parody of everything from Final Fantasy and Super Mario to SOCOM and Wolfenstein, repeating EA's trick of using The Simpsons Game to poke fun at the opposition.
Unfortunately for developer Vicious Cycle, it lacks the recognisable characters, catchphrases and writers pool that helped propel the former to passable mediocrity in 2007. It's not even all that obvious what it's poking fun at half the time. There's an Austrian man who says silly things and sounds a bit like Arnold Schwarzenegger, for instance. Was that really the best idea on the whiteboard at the end of the brainstorm? What's it got to do with anything?"
Can you judge a video game by its bad, sometimes bonkers box art? More often than not.
The Phalanx cover I do remember well, to be fair it did show a star ship on the cover too.
The worst box art in recent memory was the Doom 2016 one. That cover was depressingly generic.
We groan at the cheese. Also, The Master of Disguise.
One of our newest writers Ewan takes a look at the gaming past and with that we present to you, Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard – Forgotten But Not Gone!
As expected, this game was semi-hyped by some people but I knew it would disappoint. Weak gameplay videos confirm a bad game long before any review ever could.