2.12.2013

Minecraft is the ultimate sandbox game. But how good is it?Firstly it is not as up to date as the PC version and world size is "862 blocks by 862 blocks" whereas the PC version is 30 million blocks by 30 million blocks before world generation gets a little weird.Secondly, as I said the paragraph above 'not as up to date' you wouldn't expect it to have ALL the blocks. But there is still A LOT of blocks and Potions are all the same (there maybe some missing from the PC version).Finally there are a few glitches. As I play i normally I run against walls and I become glitched in them. When travelling in a minecart round tight bends your screen might go very quickly into a wall then out again.

9.7.2013

A game which has something for everyone and offers hundreds of hours of endless fun. The possibilities of what you can excavate or create are endless, everything from castles and towns to huge underground caves are waiting to be built... All that it requires is your imagination! There are two modes, survival where by you must find what you need to build what you want and creative mode where everything is available at your finger tips. Different worlds can be created too, from flat maps to forests and caves waiting to be found so the combinations that can be had are unreal. Maps are full of creatures like cows and other animals such as wolves but beware at night as the monsters come out such as zombies and spiders.For me though this game is as its best when played with friends,

29.5.2014

A game which has something for everyone and offers hundreds of hours of endless fun. The possibilities of what you can excavate or create are endless, everything from castles and towns to huge underground caves are waiting to be built... All that it requires is your imagination! There are two modes, survival where by you must find what you need to build what you want and creative mode where everything is available at your finger tips. Different worlds can be created too, from flat maps to forests and caves waiting to be found so the combinations that can be had are unreal. Maps are full of creatures like cows and other animals such as wolves but beware at night as the monsters come out such as zombies and spiders.For me though this game is as its best when played with friends,

24.8.2013

This review is for the Xbox Live Arcade Edition (download only, no physical copy), but it's exactly the same.To be honest, there was a time when I never quite "got" Minecraft. I guess I was too used to flashy graphics and high-res textures in my games and couldn't take Minecraft's quirky, low-res appearance seriously. However, I started following the players on the 'Mindcrack' Minecraft server on YouTube (VintageBeef, Baj, PauseUnpause, Guude, Etho, docm77, to name but a few) and it didn't take long before I "got" it. I'm not really a PC gamer, so I jumped at the chance to try it for myself on the 360. And I've been hooked ever since.I've played all kinds of games, from 'Dead Space'

25.8.2013

We recently got this for the rainy days in the summer holidays and it has got to be the best £13 I spent in a long time.I purchased the disk version of the game (instead of digital download) because I have had enough hard drives die on me to know having a disk for £3 more is a good idea.The basic Principle:A lego block like interactive world which can be demolished or built. Each world features desert, snow, grasslands, sea and multiple types of terrain. Because of this simplicity it has almost infinite combinations for the worlds. So when you get bored of a world start a new one to explore.Creative mode is like god mode - explore and do any thing you want,

16.12.2014

My review will start after this small disclaimer:-Unlike the PC version, where you can walk literally for hours, and the world is almost never-ending, this console version isn't! The world is not that big, you could run from one end to the other in about 15 minutes, where you then come across invisible walls! :( Because of this miniature biomes are usually squeezed into one map, taking away the feeling of a huge world. If you have never played the PC version, then this probably won't bother you, you'll probably think that the world is huge. Bear this in mind before buying.My Review:Minecraft is a game limited only by what you can imagine. It's like being in one giant Lego set of never-ending bricks.

11.7.2020

Ok, I'm an older gamer, have been gaming since the 90's, spend a lot of time looking at latest gen high quality games with beautiful graphics and smooth game play. However.. My kids just don't want to know about these. They love this blocky, square, clunky game.... And I can see why... It looks bad, but it's quite good fun to sculpt and build different things from the huge array of blocks and pieces you can get.There are a couple of different modes, but we prefer the creator mode which basically gives you access to everything so you can build what you like. My kids have been building their own little world, starting with houses, and every time I join them for a few minutes,

17.7.2018

I originally bought Minecraft years ago for my laptop back when it was an independent release still in Beta. I loved it for a few days but then never went back to it. Since then, I’ve owned a version on my xBox 360 (which I lost when I moved over to a PS4) and now I have the Switch version (which is by far the priciest version to date).My main reason for buying this again was basically due to my five year old daughter. She’s itching to play games but all of the ones I’ve purchased so far have been too difficult for her to fully grasp on her own. Minecraft has been perfect, in a short space of time she was showing me features I didn’t know existed (its come a long way from its humble beginnings).The

12.1.2015

Truly is an amazing game. Certainly a game that isn't just for kids. I'm in my 30's and ended up totally hooked when I started playing yesterday. Suddenly it was midnight and I should have been tucked up long before with work early this morning!Graphically, takes me back to the days of the Commodore 64. However, that's part of the charm of the game. It reminds me where many video games fail these days. Graphically stunning but often lack the story and game play. 'Back in the day' (to sound a bit old), games couldn't rely on amazing graphics. Therefore, the only thing that would sell lots of copies and keep people hooked was a great concept and game play.If you're young and used to games that look great,

28.9.2014

Minecraft - Xbox 360 is an amazing game that will give you 100's hours of entertainment. My daughter was into Minecraft for a while playing it on the PC version before it came out on the Xbox 360. Once it came out on the Xbox 360 we bought it and play every weekend for hours on end. It's a great way to hang out with your kids and create some amazing creations. When I was a kid it was sitting on the floor playing with LEGO's not its Minecraft. It's not just mindless game play, many times my daughter and I drew out on paper what we wanted to make before creating it within the game. The game is only limited by your imgination.The game has had some great upgrade to it,

28.9.2014

Minecraft is an amazing game that will give you 100's hours of entertainment. My daughter was into Minecraft for a while playing it on the PC version before it came out on the Xbox 360. Once it came out on the Xbox 360 we bought it and play every weekend for hours on end. It's a great way to hang out with your kids and create some amazing creations. When I was a kid it was sitting on the floor playing with LEGO's not its Minecraft. It's not just mindless game play, many times my daughter and I drew out on paper what we wanted to make before creating it within the game. The game is only limited by your imgination.The game has had some great upgrade to it, to include allowing to tame ocelots(they tame into cats)

14.1.2014

There's a paradox at the heart of Minecraft, at least for parents purchasing the game for their kids: how can an such a (seemingly) graphically primitive game, with no narrative structure, hold the user's attention, and continue to hold it, for apparently inexhaustible amounts of time?The answer probably lies in the creative aspect; Minecraft is essentially a CAD program, the user manipulating 3D blocks to assemble pretty much everything, from a wall to a city (above or below ground). Once acclimatised to the environment, then the game really begins to grip as day follows night (at approximately 20 minute intervals) and various hazards reveal themselves,

10.8.2015

What can I say. This is probably the most fun and addictive game for our two kids (ages: 8 and 6). For people not familiar with minecraft, it is like an infinite lego-land where the players get to build houses (and decorate their own rooms), work together/collaborate, but when the sun sets run back into their houses, because it is the time that the monsters (zombies? creepers? god if I know) come out. What I like is that the game allows for more than one players to participate in the game at the same time. The screen splits into two (top & bottom halves of the screen), and they get to live and do their thing in the same world.To demonstrate how addictive the game is,

6.10.2014

My kids love it. All I hear is in Minecraft this and Minecraft that. Great creative game for my 7 year old half the time I don't know what he was talking about when he mentions Enderman and Zombie-Pig-Men so it was an education for me watching him play through it. In the basic mode you can do just about everything from finding raw materials, to building whatever you need and mixing potions, and adopting wolves and so much more. There are other modes like survival where the game is more structured. It can be played on and offline, whether you want other people visiting your created world or not. You can play split screen 2 player even offline with 2 controllers (it does cut down arguments on whose turn it is).

30.10.2014

Should come with a Parental warning!!!If you are giving this to your child, they will start playing this simple game and be instantly hooked. They will bore you with tours of their worlds and invite you to play along. They will immediately tell you how you are doing it all wrong and kick you off or take your controller and build the thing/ destroy the thing you have been attempting to get to grips with for the past 45 mins this will destroy all your cool parent credentials in one fell swoop (you will have cool parent credentials from buying the game in the first place however, sadly it wont last once you try to play ....!)Basically once given,

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