Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition

The Xbox 360 version of Minecraft was released on May 9, 2012. It was originally developed by Mojang for the PC and co-developed for the Xbox 360 by 4J Studios. This is a game that will keep you busy for hours at end for what seems to be for no reason at all besides to build what ever you can conceive. When you are first are introduced to your world, you may think to yourself "Why am I here?". You start off in a 8-bit block world with no items, tools, equipment, weapons, or armor. Everything you must create on your own. In this version of Minecraft, everything available to create is already visible to you when you have the appropriate ingredients, versus trying to figure out what goes where on your own like on the PC version. Just remember, make sure you make shelter as soon as possible so Creepers don't spawn on top of you and blow the area up. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like everything in the full game is available to the Xbox version just yet. Minecraft does support four player online play and is recommended to play with others, especially while trying to make giant projects like a to scale Deathstar.