You know, it seems like there’s a lot of games that have
“Craft” in the title. There’s Warcraft,
And Starcraft
and Arcade craft...
Okay maybe there isn’t that many games but I’m going to be
looking at one of those “Craft” games today:
Minecraft is BIG, I mean HUGE, both on the sales side and
the gameplay side, and because of that Minecraft can be a really hard game to
review, I mean there are so many reviewers out there who won’t touch this thing
in fear of looking like fools, but I’m going to do it, so there!
For all those of you who have been living under rocks I am
going ExPlaIN what MIneCrafT is. Minecraft is a 3D sandbox game where you mine
for resources and use them to craft more tools, or you can let you’re creative
side run wild. Oh I forgot it’s all made out of blocks like Legos. So this game
is like if you were shrunk down to the size of you’re Legos and all of them
came to life. And don’t lie and say you don’t have Legos, because I know!
Wait there are Minecraft Legos?
The Story:
Now this is kind of hard because Minecraft doesn’t really
have a story, but I can piece together things to see if we can make any sense
of it.
When you get into the game you wake up in the wilderness
with only the cloths on your back. You realize that you will need to find a way
to survive. You start by cutting down a tree, and decide to make planks. After
you have a tool, you decide to take a look around, and try to find a source of
food, because you will need it. Perhaps you’ve picked an apple or slaughtered a
pig, and are happily munching on food. But now you realize that it is now
midday, and you must find a shelter before night falls. You either start
building a house out of dirt, or have found a cave that you can clean up. It
will be getting dark soon and you will need some light if you want to continue
working during the night. So you begin searching for a cave that has a deposit
of coal. After you have found it, you start making your way back to your
shelter as night falls. You think you know the way back, but hope your memory
is as good as your hunger. Suddenly about fifty feet away, you see something
that makes your skin crawl, you don’t know what that THING is but you don’t
want to find out. You start running, and many more things start following you
as you run back to your shelter. Finally you make it back and seal of the
entrance. But what ever that was is still out there, and now you know that
things come out at night.
(With the game being as open ended as it is, this is just a
few of the thousands of things that might happen to you in Minecraft, or I just made up a ton of stuff.)
Gameplay:
Here is where this review gets hard, because this game is
huge!!!! Minecraft has the potential to be one of the biggest games ever
created.
And the landscape is vast!
There is no real goal in Minecraft, you can do pretty much
whatever you want, which can probably turn some people away. It’s mostly just a
game about making grand structures and letting your imagination run wild, while
surviving the dark. The game becomes what you make of it, which makes playing
in multiplayer fun by seeing what others have created.
But there is plenty of adventure and quests you make up to
be had, whether it is searching for diamonds, or fighting to survive in the
Nether (Hell.)
DIAMONDS!
Both all of these things come back to the three most basic
things you do in Minecraft, collecting blocks through mining, placing blocks,
and crafting items.
The gameplay is very simple and addicting, but it can be
daunting because of all the options.
Just be careful of monsters
Music and
Presentation:
The presentation definitely confuses people, on the one had
we have tons of people who say that the graphics are to “out of date,”
Everyone hates old games.
And
others who say that it looks like Legos, and of course everyone hates Legos.
Go away Legos, not even adults like you! >:(
In my opinion it’s simple, and that’s all it has to be.
The music is nice and calming, and conveys loneliness,
although you can get more tracks from discs that drop, but are very rare.
The presentation and music both make the single player
experience dark and lonely, which I do like because you do become really lonely
in Minecraft.
The Verdict and Final
Thoughts:
Minecraft is fun, but when you start out there isn’t really
an in game tutorial for new players, and it can be hard just figuring out what
to do. I do recommend this game, but it’s not as amazing as it could be, but
there is so much to do. That’s why my rating for this game is an eight out of
ten. It is an “Awesome Game.”
LEGOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No comments:
Post a Comment