CNET Editors' review
Minecraft is to my 25-year-old self as Legos were to my 5-year-old self: a time-sucking, mind-bending, and sleep-depriving experience in the simplest of activities. It hits the right tune on the subject of creation: it really does provide building blocks for your imagination.
Minecraft has no real direction, anchoring plot, or specific guidelines. Players are dropped into a world with only the ability to carve out resources from the surrounding land; you're a miner (duh!).
The game's graphics won't impress, but leaves you with one direction and focus: to build. Soon you'll find out that as it gets dark, chilling around with a pickax probably won't do you any good against the pixelated zombies, monsters, and other creepy critters after you.
Minecraft's central focus is in crafting tools and collecting resources to pretty much build whatever you want. Whether it's building more-powerful weapons to fend off creatures of the night or building that mega fortress to gloat at other miners in the open world, you're still going to need the right raw materials. Make no mistake: this game is a grinder. But after toiling for hours and hours and finally stumbling upon that precise material you need is a priceless moment in its own right.
As a self-sustaining teacher, Minecraft fails. Don't rely on Majong's limited provisions to learn the ropes of the game. Instead, I recommend scouting the Net for community made guides: there's a plethora of custom guides out there that will help you get the most out of this game. And really, that limit is all up to you.
If you simply want to focus on building and avoid the hassle of defending your fortress, then Creative mode is for you. In this mode, you have unrestricted access to all the building blocks and tools needed to build the structure or statue of your dreams, plus the ability to fly for kicks.
If you're uncomfortable with lack of direction, then this game isn't for you. But when it comes to open-world gameplay and mechanics, Minecraft is a primitive but fine demonstration of thriving on bare-bones gaming. Grab an ax and start digging.
Publisher's Description
From Markus Persson:
Minecraft is a game about placing blocks to build anything you can imagine. At night monsters come out, make sure to build a shelter before that happens. It also has music by C418
What's new in this version: Version 1.5.2 includes performance improvements when using HD texture packs.
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"Your mind can not comprehend all of the possibilities."
Version: Minecraft 1.5.2
Pros
The game has almost no limits to what you can not do. Most of the remaining limits are overcome with the use of tons of available free mods. It's seriously understated just how much can be found online about how to play this game. Just YouTube alone if you search for minecraft, just in the last 24 hours, 7 pages of videos have been uploaded. With game mods, the game in multi-player has some cool features too like co-op towns, trade shops, factions that players can battle for control of land and resources. In single player you can get cool survival maps and other player created themed maps that can take half hour or several sessions to complete. The game offers the ability to re-texture the client thus the world with some very nice looking custom textures that are all freely available.
Cons
Their is not enough hours in the day :(
Summary
Game has all the aspects you could want if you like to craft, create, build, tweak, customize, and personalize.
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"I love it I play it myself (Its not a scam ok people ok"
Version: Minecraft 1.5.2
Pros
Everything is a pro (dont worry people its not a scam)
Cons
Nothing its epic
Summary
Its great I love it and its just fun!
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