Minecraft

Minecraft is the fastest selling XBLA title of all time, but is it any good? Well that all depends on what your idea of good is. This is one game that you really need to try the trial version of before spending 1600 points on the game as it really is like Marmite. (In being that you will either love it or hate it)

It is quite a strange feeling when you first start playing and after a while realise that you have spent the last few hours digging in near pitch black and destroying blocks only to refine them and create things with them. Yet you can't help but keep digging and creating more and more things or improve on what you have made so far in the game as it moves through it's day and night cycle. Then their is the harvesting of food, shearing of sheep (by hitting them) or killing of pigs to get pork chops as well as a few other things to do in the game that make it sound rather boring when described.

The game also offers a range of different difficulty levels to play on, these range from Peaceful where you are left alone to dig and build with nothing else to worry about. Yet putting the difficulty up a notch or 3 and night time begins to become something to dread as Spiders, Zombies, Skeletons and Creepers turn up to try and kill you. (With Creepers and Spiders still remaining on the map in the day time as well) The worst of these for me has to be either the Skeletons with the sneaky bow and arrow attacks, or the Creepers who will just blow up right next to you killing you and destroying any blocks near them. (Thinking about it the bastard Creepers are the worst, the shits!) One good thing is that you can train

One thing that does improve the game and makes it a lot more enjoyable is the multi-player mode. If this mode is played how it should be then you and your friends (Up to 8 players) can build some amazing creations a lot quicker than you would normally do on your own. So far me and a few others have built Pyramids, Sky bridges, Skyscrapers and even a floating train track high above the clouds all in one game. Sadly though one of us found the TNT and started acting like a dick blowing up peoples houses, luckily with the duplication glitch all that was sorted out as I planted TNT all over the Pyramid that Rad Zero had built and blew it to smithereens which made the game full of sad pandas as blame was passed around before we all agreed to start a new world.

One thing the game does contain is censorship when it comes to the signs, and strangely enough you cant put "Get of my land" or some other sentences along with the obvious swear words in the game. Yet you can write stuff in game using blocks as I did in Graf1k's game while he was busy building a house. Minecraft is one of those games though that I can see myself returning to from time to time to expand on what I have built in my world, or jump into a xbox live friends game online just to fuck things up or build statues of things that I shouldn't probably put in the game.