
MANEUVERING THE INVENTORY CURSOR IS A PAIN IN THE ASS Graphically, while never astonishing on PC, Minecraft XBLA is still pretty in its simple way and runs smoothly.

In lieu of creating online servers, you can invite a friend to mine and craft with you via Xbox Live, or have a better friend connect a controller and play with you via split-screen co-op. The same materials are used to craft the same items and you will still find them in the usual places. A few craftable items didn't make the leap, but by-and-large, it is the exact same game ported, with all that entails.
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Often for better and occasionally for worse, Minecraft XBLA is PC Minecraft with very little added and very little taken away. The game is what you make of it, and however you choose to spend your time in Minecraft is fine with Minecraft. If you die, you will simply respawn and you can go collect all of your lost items if you can find them.

There is, in fact, nothing you are supposed to do but survive. There are no levels, no missions and no cutscenes or voices telling you what to do. On the "hard" setting, zombies, skeletons, spiders and the silent-but-deadly Creepers swarm like flies and hurt you plenty. Your health regenerates if you should fall from a great height or burn yourself with lava, but the dangers are few. On the "peaceful" setting, they won't show up at all. Various difficulty levels will allow you to set how many and how deadly the night terrors will be. Once the night comes, the inky blackness fills with block-shaped things that want you dead, so you must retreat inside a shelter (after you build one) or find some way to illuminate the darkness.
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During the daytime you are free to roam around the block-shaped countryside, mingling with block-shaped sheep, pigs, cows and chickens and mining various block-shaped natural materials. The relentless day/night cycle will also enforce a sort of loose order on how and what you do. Tools will break over time, and stronger materials make stronger tools, so the more you craft, the more you must mine, and you will quickly fall into a steady rhythm of work, then play.

You begin empty-handed and literally construct everything you use, even every tool with which to make it. The core of Minecraft's gameplay has remained intact: you mine and then you craft. However you choose to spend your time in Minecraft is fine with Minecraft - It doesn't judge But while Minecraft XBLA chips away at the time required to scour the depths of Mojang's debut, some of the mystery might have fallen away in the process. Now, Minecraft has made its way to the Xbox 360 courtesy of Mojang and port developer 4J Studios, and all of that simplicity - and its various complications - have come with it. Mine more materials to craft more things. And then you lose days of your life with only a block-shaped castle made entirely of golden dongs to show for it.īlock-shaped trees can be harvested for block-shaped wood, and then that wood can be used to craft a variety of block-shaped objects, like tools, torches and boats. At its core, it is simple game: You mine things, and then you use those things to craft other things. Minecraft has been driving PC gamers to obsessively mine, then craft for years.

If you play Minecraft for any significant length of time you will realize two things: given enough time, you can build almost anything you can imagine inside of this block-shaped sandbox, and you will never have enough time.
