October 13, 2008 by Greg Noe
Mutant League Football is a football game released for the Sega Genesis in 1993. This isn't your typical football game though, as the players are mutants, monsters, and skeletons, and the field has firepits, mines, and going out of bounds means getting sucked into space. Mutant League Football was developed by EA and released at the same time as the early Madden Football games, but you can tell the development team really had some fun with the game. A few of the team names are mocking real teams (Sixty Whiners instead of 49ers) and there are a couple of parody players such as Reggie Fright (Reggie White) and Bones Jackson (Bo Jackson).
This game really reminds me of The Rookie, a podcast novel written by Scott Sigler that I read last year. In that book, there's an intergalactic football league played by a variety of alien races and includes much death and destruction. A great listen. Let's get to the review now, oh yeah, this is my second post-apocalyptic game review in a row after Fallout, funny how those things run in streaks.
October 06, 2008 by Greg Noe
Fallout is a popular computer role-playing game from 1997. Its post-apocalyptic setting, off-beat dark humor, and deep gameplay has kept this game installed on many computers over the last decade. Fallout's fanbase has been pretty steady over the years and with Fallout 3 being released later this month, the focus on this series is really starting to build. So let's take this opportunity and look at where the entire series began, in the first hour of the original Fallout.
September 29, 2008 by Greg Noe
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare features the best first hour of a video game I have ever played. It was 2007's best-selling game and received my 2007 Console Game of the Year award. The entire game is a must-play but the first hour is something to be marveled at. I was never personally a fan of World War II era shooters, so I was super excited to find out the Call of Duty series had moved on to a modern setting that really makes sense in today's world. There seems to be as much reality in this fictional war than what the previous games had presented to us before.
Welcome to day three of the First Hour, as in the 49th hour of gaming. This is also the first review of my new site where you're reading this now after a few month break. Since my last review in June, I've moved into my first house and had a baby, it's been really exciting but also a bit overwhelming, I haven't even hooked up any of my consoles in months and just played my DS and PC sporadically. I'm ready to start writing about games again though, I'll try to keep them coming as consistent as possible (every Monday afternoon), but you never know what will happen.
Anyways, on with the review!
For my review on the whole game, please see my Call of Duty 4 review at Beyond the First Hour.
September 21, 2008 by Greg Noe
Forty-eight* games have been reviewed. Forty-eight hours have been played. Two entire days of gaming.
Read moreSeptember 21, 2008 by Greg Noe
The first two days of First Hour content has been moved here along with all 20 full reviews! I have some great plans for the site but it's time to start rolling out some brand new reviews. I should be posting them within the next week or so, probably picking up my regular Monday schedule of posting new First Hour reviews. I've also beaten a few games over the last few months so I'll be catching up on Beyond the First Hour reviews.
Next time I post something, it will be a brand new review! Until then, check out the 48 First Hour reviews and the 20 Beyond the First Hour reviews.
August 19, 2008 by Greg Noe
Yep, I'm still hard at work on the First Hour. I have 48 First Hour reviews to migrate over to firsthour.net along with about 20 Beyond the First Hour reviews. This would generally be a quick cut and paste job but I'm creating a whole different review layout along with some other nifty extras that are slowing things down. It's important to me that I have every single old review available when this site is ready to launch with Day Three content.
Read moreJuly 12, 2008 by Greg Noe
I'm getting closer to launching The First Hour here for good. A lot of data migration and some site tweaking needs to be done, but I hope to complete it within the coming weeks. My life has been incredibly busy lately with a new house and a baby on the way, but I can't wait to get back to writing for this site. It all kind of reminds me of why I started The First Hour in the first place, I barely have time to play any video games right now, let alone bad ones, making the first hour of a game so much more important. Hook me in fast so I'll finish it that night! Well, that's what one game did recently, and it will be my first review when I get back!
See you soon!
June 16, 2008 by Greg Noe
Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures is a new adventure game in the same vein as Lego Star Wars. I've had great fun with the recent series of Lego games and since I've always been a fan of Indiana Jones, this is one game I'm excited to play. I've only played one other Indiana Jones game before and that was Desktop Adventures, a fun, randomly generated top-down computer game. Lego Indiana Jones supposedly does not include any content from the newest movie, which doesn't bother me, I thought it was pretty bad honestly. I will be playing the Nintendo DS version of Lego Indiana Jones.
This is my last review for Day 2 of The First Hour. Another 24 hours of video gaming has passed and another 24 will begin soon. All reviews here on old domain will be moving to firsthour.net and all new reviews will be posted there. That site will consolidate my full review site into it also. I'm really excited for it and I plan to launch it this summer. It will probably be a few weeks though as I have just closed on a house and also have a baby on the way, so it's going to be a busy summer! I'm excited for the future though and still plan to review just the first hour of video games. Heck, that's all I have time for anyway.
June 09, 2008 by Greg Noe
Star Ocean: The Second Story is an action RPG for the original PlayStation. The game allows the player to make many choices along the way, from what characters will be in your party to how difficult the secret final boss will be. Star Ocean is known for its fun and varied gameplay and its absolutely atrocious, but hilarious voice acting. It was released in the United States back in 1999 but since the first Star Ocean was never released outside of Japan, I'm not really sure how Enix expected it to performed. The game follows the story of two intergalactic strangers and their impact on the future of multiple planets. Let's get into the beginning of that story, as Star Ocean: The Second Story's first hour is about to begin.
June 02, 2008 by Greg Noe
Hotel Dusk: Room 215 is a point and click adventure game for the Nintendo DS. I reviewed the first hour of the game a few months ago and awarded the game a 4 out of 10 for its never-ending dialogue and slow gameplay. But that's just one hour of 30, how will the complete package turn out? Note the scores are out of 10.
For my review on just the first hour, please see my Hotel Dusk: Room 215 review at The First Hour.
