Author Archive - CPaladino

Mortal Kombat is a part of my childhood. The hours in the arcades playing MK2 shaped much of who I am today. Yes it's cheesy, yes it's cliché, but hanging out in the arcades with some friends, and many other folks I didn't know were some of the best times ...

Soccer - the world's most popular sport. Soccer - a sport that most American's could give two craps about. Soccer - the sport that I have to do three different reviews for, where all of them stink. Ok, let's jump right into this review - it was painful to play, I ...

I am a fan of certain real time strategy (RTS) games. I played, and liked, Starcraft and Warcraft, but my long-time favorite was the Warlords Battlecry (WLBC) series. This was knocked off its throne this year by Dawn of War (DOW). Well, here comes another RTS game in the remake ...

The "illegal underground racing circuit" genre is getting another entry. A movie and a few TV shows come out, some interest is generated, and poof, here come a wave of games, most of which are horrible piles of junk. Need for Speed Underground 2 (NFSU2) is EA's follow up to ...

EA's last wrestling/rap music hybrid game, Def Jam Vendetta, surprised a large number of people a few years back when it came out. It was a pretty solid game that I personally scoffed at until I rented it. It was amazing for me, because I'm not a big fan of ...

Aura-Fate of the Ages is one of the latest in the line of puzzle/adventure games. These are games like Myst where you spend most of your time solving puzzles in a very pretty (and mostly static) background environment. While I can't say that these games are very innovative, I have ...

Mortal Kombat has the prestigious honor of being one of the most popular franchises in history. If you are a gamer, and haven't heard of Mortal Kombat, you are not a gamer, sorry. The series boomed early, and then "jumped the shark" with MK3. Several lame action platformer games were ...

Being the sports fan that I am, I decided that it was time to pick up this year's baseball game for the PS2. Now the last few years, Sega World Series Baseball was the king of the mound. I heard the buzz, and decided to pick up MVP Baseball 2004 ...