These games can be played from start to finish if you have a free day, but nothing to do. I'm not talking 100% completion though - just single player mode, any difficulty level, from "Start new game" 'til credits roll.
It can be done! And it will be done! And it HAAAAS been done!
(I feel like MI1 should be mentioned in all lists, because.. well, it's awesome).
I don't remember how many hours it took me, but definitly less than 12. Was it eight? Anyhow, you should play through this in less than a day so you can go play..
However, if you only play UC2 for a day you are missing out. But, yeah, you could...
If you know the puzzles and run past all skippable fights you can do pretty fast speedruns here. Granted, cutscenes aren't counted into your game time, but I finished this in about 3h, which should give you enough time to finish...
...God of War 2 the same day.
I finished the MW2 single player campaign in about 6 hours on the hardened difficulty setting. So I guess it doesn't take too long on the easiest mode. I do not account for finishing the multiplayer. Because you can't.
Modern Warfare... (1?) is a relatively short game. It got bashed for the quick campaign in reviews, even though it's not really much shorter than other first person shooters out there. Like...
Not a very long game. But if you want to drag it out, just play on veteran difficulty. This offers inch-by-inch crawling between checkpoints, a rain of grenades and an awesome replay-mode where you get to re-live 30 minutes of crawling because some asian guy jumped out of a bush.
Trick jumping was the ultimate way of speeding through levels. It should exist in all games.
Pills won't make this zombie madness blood'n'guts-fest go any faster or get any less scary. But that's okay, because it's already pretty fast and not very scary.
Pills here, too.
If you play through the entirety of IWBTG in a day, you ARE the guy. Personally I F***ING SH**-A** B**** SH**!#$!!
The biggest question about this game is if you feel like you've finished the game when you've finished all the levels.
Best played on a huge TV with a large surround sound if you've just had a cup of tea... and it's 3am. You'll be finished by 4:20am and you'll be high.
I feel like these Sonic games need to be mentioned, because you could probably play everyone of them in a single day.
Sonic is fast...
Of course, so is Tails.
Or was it Miles?
But whatever, the best Sonic experience is playing the older games with Knuckles with a pure intent to make them glitch by climbing stuff.
Another obvious one.
Another obvious one.
Another obvious one. Obviously.
Some games you can buy and play through in one day... you don't even have to leave your house! It's the future!! Downloadable games!!!
If you play through this one, you could end up sitting around the rest of the day crying.
Trine is a real nice looking game and it has some very good sounding music. Unfortunantly the VO'd cutscenes between the levels don't look very good and they've got some of the best poor writing I've ever heard. So you could clear it even faster if you skip the cutscenes... and WHA-PAM, there it is.
THE CAKE IS A LIE!
THE CAKE IS A PIE!!
These games
could all
be played
in a
single day.
But you will need the monkey spirit. (Not liquor).
You could spend hours on a single level of Alien Swarm, if you're playing on 'insane', but you could instead play the game multiple times on 'normal' in the same amount of time. At the time of writing this, there is only one campaign.
