Few Hours, I was going to pull an all nighter. I usually play a game about 20+ hours before reviewing it, would be pushing it close but I don't fail to deliver. I beat Halo3 within the launch day and reviewed it for the paper too really quickly.
Example I will be reviewing Mario:Galaxy for November 28th because Mario games take longer then a week to beat. Hopefully two weeks will be enough for me to have beaten the game and reviewed it. I beat the first BattalionWars (Not crunching it) in about 3 days playing only a couple hours a day. So 20 or so hours should have been sufficient
That being said I don't always fully beat games before reviewing. After about 20-hours of play if I haven't beaten the game yet I do have a very good idea as to the games quality which is infact what a review is isn't it? When you review something you are telling other people what the quality of the product is!
-JC7
"In God We Trust - In Games We Play " - Joel Reimer
