* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The song that plays in the credits.
* DisappointingLastLevel: The last two levels.
* EnjoyTheStorySkipTheGame: The actual gameplay is an [[SoOkayItsAverage average to mediocre]] third person shooter that has little innovation, but the story makes up for it for being an AffectionateParody of many gaming tropes and does it well for the most part.
* EvenBetterSequel: 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.
* HarsherInHindsight: QA tells Matt that he doesn't have to worry about fellow heavily-armed action hero [[VideoGame/DukeNukem Nuke Winter]], since his [[VideoGame/DukeNukemForever next game]] [[VaporWare won't be released for years]]. When ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever''[='s=] studio shut down, the joke became less funny...until it was announced that ''Forever'' would in fact be released in 2011. No, seriously.
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: 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 LawyerFriendlyCameo filter, you have scenes like Matt commending Master Chief on his success, and telling Mario he's a hero to more than just gamers.
* HilariousInHindsight:
** 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 [[VideoGame/MarioKart go-kart spinoff.]] Come 2015, and [[{{Franchise/Splatoon}} 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'' [[VideoGame/WaterWarfare a water gun-based shooter]] released just four months after ''Eat Lead'', as a UsefulNotes/WiiWare game.
** May double as HarsherInHindsight but considering Marathon [[Creator/{{Ubisoft}} Megasoft's]] logo is tinted in red and the questionable undeniably evil actions of [[Creator/{{Konami}} 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 [[Creator/EpicGames Epic Megagames]] has similarly gone out of its way to bury its breakout ''VideoGame/{{Unreal}}'' franchise in the 2020s.
* ReplacementScrappy: Sting Sniperscope was meant to be this until Matt took him out instead.
* TheScrappy: Wally is possibly the most annoying BigBad ever.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: The music for the SpaceMarine-themed level bears striking similarity to ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'''s theme song.

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