Big dumb action movie brass crashing through your speakers. Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard is a PS3/360 parody shooter from 2009 and its soundtrack plays the joke completely straight, which makes it even better. "Space Marines" leans into every sci-fi cliche with total commitment, all bombastic horns and dramatic stings.
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"Secret Soldiers Of The Wafferthinn" is exactly as ridiculous as it sounds and the music somehow sells it. "Hazardland 1983" throws you back to early arcade vibes filtered through HD-era production. The whole OST walks this tightrope between genuine action scoring and knowing wink.
It sounds expensive for a game that was basically one long meta joke. For anyone who misses that mid-2000s era of games that refused to take themselves seriously but still went hard on the music.