Archive for Author: Mark Freedman
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What the Crap?: Go-Karting
Columns by Mark Freedman on We need a realistic go-karting game. Sure, Mario Kart kicks ass, but it ain't true to life. I went to do some go-karting last weekend, and the times...they were good! But I assure you, I can't g
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What the Crap? Stick to What You’re Good At
Columns by Mark Freedman on What the crap is up with game series' suddenly switching genres? If a game works well as a side-scrolling plat former, don't turn it in to a driving game. The big one that comes to mine is that stupid
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What the Crap?: I Pee, Therefore, I Am
Columns by Mark Freedman on People complain about how, in movies, no one ever goes to the bathroom. OK, no one actually complains about this except me. And I don't even want to see them actually go to the bathroom...so I'm not e
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What the Crap?: Rampage
Columns by Mark Freedman on Honestly, what is the ESRB thinking with the Rampage series? With all the games out there where you kill people and decapitate them, they lose sight of just what goes on in Rampage. For those unfamili
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Rampage: Total Destruction (GCN)
Reviews by Mark Freedman on Somewhere along the lines, you've played or heard about a Rampage game. The premise is simple: You're a big-ass monster who wants to destroy every city in the world by jumping, punching and kicking yo
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[NSFW] What the Crap?: Games that are Hard as Shit
Columns by Mark Freedman on I’d like to rant about a few select games that are definitely H.A.S. and made me wonder just what the crap the programmers were beaten with as a child to make such an infuriating game.
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What the Crap?: Bosses
Columns by Mark Freedman on I can't tell you how many easy bosses I've cut through that just made me wonder what the crap was going on in the boss-designer's mind.
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Tecmo Super Bowl (NES)
Reviews by Mark Freedman on The silly football action will never leave us.
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What the Crap?: Role-Playing Games
Columns by Mark Freedman on RPGs rock. Deep stories, great strategy elements, orchestrated music, walking around and fighting the same slime 50 times—they're fantastic. I remember getting my first RPG for free from Nintendo P
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Double Dragon II: The Revenge (NES)
Reviews by Mark Freedman on It's a very influential series, and this is one of the first games to introduce a nice co-op fighting mode.