The First Hour

I haven't been keeping my New Years Resolution of writing more first hour reviews very well, it took us seven months to get through day eight! Not a very good pace, in my opinion. I've been slacking quite a bit as of late, but Nate has been stepping it up with some excellent first hour reviews accompanied by some well edited videos.

So here's the latest 24 hours of gaming, we've now produced as many first hour reviews as there are episodes of the TV show 24, which means absolutely nothing, but it's a fun fact you can tell your friends.

As for the games? The great thing about playing just the first hour is that you really get to try out a variety of games. Everything from the 18 year old Illusion of Gaia to the recent blockbuster Portal 2. Genres cover Wii shovelware to gun porn to time traveling RPGs, we've got it all.

I completed my goal of beating Mass Effect 2 for the second time and completing Dragon Age: Origins earlier this year, and I've been giving my Steam backlog a lot of attention, so look for some old school Lucasarts first hours in the near future. Thanks for reading.

Bolded games are titles we would definitely recommend you keep playing beyond the first hour.

1. Black
2. Fable II
3. Disney Epic Mickey
4. Emergency Heroes
5. Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening
6. Harvest Moon: Magical Melody
7. Bionic Commando: Rearmed 2
8. The Hobbit
9. Fable III
10. Radiant Historia
11. Tales of Legendia
12. Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
13. Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
14. Okamiden
15. Red Dead Redemption
16. Burnout Paradise
17. Illusion of Gaia
18. Suikoden
19. Portal 2
20. Crysis 2
21. L.A. Noire
22. Infamous 2
23. Wii Play Motion
24. Dragon Age II