Minecraft Review
Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2010 4:19 pm
MINECRAFT
well, what can i say, this game is frekin' amazing and i love it.
It's for windows, mac and linux.
It's kind of harsh on your computer though, so you may want to check specifications.
Check the cost on minecraft.net because its changing with every update so get it soon
Well what do you do in minecraft?
As i heard someone put it nicely its like "Bear Grylls the game"
The graphcis are all just big cubes with textures on them. I guess they're meant to be like that so its simple. But anyways when you collect resources. You can put them back down and build stuff.its like being a little kid with legos.
you basically run around collecting resources during the day and then at night you have to build a shelter to hide from all the things that come to kill you.
At night you work in your shelter building things out of the resources you collected and expanding your shelter with mine shafts and stuff so you can get better resources like iron and diamond.
Monsters can spawn at any time of day, but they have to be in a low light level area (i'll talk about lighting in a sec) and they cant spawn within an area of you and can't spawn a certain distance from you.
All the lighting in the game is dynamic. During the day the light level is very high so monsters can only spawn in dark caves. During the Night time the light is much lower and monsters can spawn any were. So how do you survive in your house? you can make "torches" out of sticks and coal and put them in your house to light it up.
The game is currently in alpha but is being updated constantly (every Friday).
SeaNanners is doing a series on the game, so you can check it out if your on the fence about the game: http://www.youtube.com/user/seananners? ... NgI2o_Jinc
The website for the game is http://Www.Minecraft.Net
BY THE WAY: The maps in this game are huge and randomly generated. the map is 8x the size of the earth but you can't explore that far because you would have a petabyte sized save file.
well, what can i say, this game is frekin' amazing and i love it.
It's for windows, mac and linux.
It's kind of harsh on your computer though, so you may want to check specifications.
Check the cost on minecraft.net because its changing with every update so get it soon
Well what do you do in minecraft?
As i heard someone put it nicely its like "Bear Grylls the game"
The graphcis are all just big cubes with textures on them. I guess they're meant to be like that so its simple. But anyways when you collect resources. You can put them back down and build stuff.its like being a little kid with legos.
you basically run around collecting resources during the day and then at night you have to build a shelter to hide from all the things that come to kill you.
At night you work in your shelter building things out of the resources you collected and expanding your shelter with mine shafts and stuff so you can get better resources like iron and diamond.
Monsters can spawn at any time of day, but they have to be in a low light level area (i'll talk about lighting in a sec) and they cant spawn within an area of you and can't spawn a certain distance from you.
All the lighting in the game is dynamic. During the day the light level is very high so monsters can only spawn in dark caves. During the Night time the light is much lower and monsters can spawn any were. So how do you survive in your house? you can make "torches" out of sticks and coal and put them in your house to light it up.
The game is currently in alpha but is being updated constantly (every Friday).
SeaNanners is doing a series on the game, so you can check it out if your on the fence about the game: http://www.youtube.com/user/seananners? ... NgI2o_Jinc
The website for the game is http://Www.Minecraft.Net
BY THE WAY: The maps in this game are huge and randomly generated. the map is 8x the size of the earth but you can't explore that far because you would have a petabyte sized save file.
. I'm not sure why, but I always kind of like games which do not have extremely complex graphics. Maybe it's just because it's less of a drag to my awful graphics card, or maybe it's due to the fact that I always find games with boxy-style graphics fun to play, and their gameplay seems to be much more concentrated on than in most graphically intensive games.
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