Minecraft is a game with a fundamentally simple premise. You are dropped into a world, alone and naked, and allowed to do whatever you want. It possesses deceptively simple gameplay involving destroying, collecting, and placing blocks of various textures properties, along with a simple creation inferface that allows for the crafting of various objects, such as armor, weapons, tools, food, etc. Included in the mix are a mixture of various types of plants and animals that can be harvested for food or other materials. Rounding out the gameplay are a variety of enemies ranging from zombies to arrow-shooting skeletons to the iconic exploding creeper.
What makes Minecraft so effective is how it combines three simple but appealing ideas: exploration, creation, and destruction. Minecraft allows a player to wander the world, exploring the landscape both above- and belowground, it allows the player to construct anything their imagination allows them to, and it allows them to destroy monsters and the landscape freely. However, what makes this so effective in Minecraft is the simplicity of the game itself. It doesn't tell you what to do, nor does it give you instructions; you're simply placed in the world to make what you wish from the game. That freedom allows the player to turn Minecraft into whatever they wish; I've talked with people who played the game as lone wanderers who roamed the landscape during the day and built shelters at night. Other players I've talked to built vast citadels of stone and iron both above and belowground. Others built vast highways over hundreds of miles of landscape, deadly traps to kill monsters en masse, created scale models of real life or fictional places, structures, and starships, and more.
There is an endless range of possibilities in Minecraft. The world is yours to shape however you wish - and best of all, it isn't even finished yet. The game is currently in Beta as of this review, sells for remarkably cheap prices for it's immense replay value, and is continuously updated with a range of new features. Highly recommended for anyone who loves to build or explore.
Minecraft: A Simple Premise With Infinite Possibilities
Minecraft is a game with a fundamentally simple premise. You are dropped into a world, alone and naked, and allowed to do whatever you want. It possesses deceptively simple gameplay involving destroying, collecting, and placing blocks of various textures properties, along with a simple creation inferface that allows for the crafting of various objects, such as armor, weapons, tools, food, etc. Included in the mix are a mixture of various types of plants and animals that can be harvested for food or other materials. Rounding out the gameplay are a variety of enemies ranging from zombies to arrow-shooting skeletons to the iconic exploding creeper.
What makes Minecraft so effective is how it combines three simple but appealing ideas: exploration, creation, and destruction. Minecraft allows a player to wander the world, exploring the landscape both above- and belowground, it allows the player to construct anything their imagination allows them to, and it allows them to destroy monsters and the landscape freely. However, what makes this so effective in Minecraft is the simplicity of the game itself. It doesn't tell you what to do, nor does it give you instructions; you're simply placed in the world to make what you wish from the game. That freedom allows the player to turn Minecraft into whatever they wish; I've talked with people who played the game as lone wanderers who roamed the landscape during the day and built shelters at night. Other players I've talked to built vast citadels of stone and iron both above and belowground. Others built vast highways over hundreds of miles of landscape, deadly traps to kill monsters en masse, created scale models of real life or fictional places, structures, and starships, and more.
There is an endless range of possibilities in Minecraft. The world is yours to shape however you wish - and best of all, it isn't even finished yet. The game is currently in Beta as of this review, sells for remarkably cheap prices for it's immense replay value, and is continuously updated with a range of new features. Highly recommended for anyone who loves to build or explore.