Minecraft
Download Minecraft for Free and Create Your Own World!
- What's Free - Play game for 100 minutes.
- File Size -
- Play It On - Win XP/Vista/7
- Support - Minecraft Support
- Game Created By - Mojang
Exclusive Review Summary
Allows for endless levels of exploration and creativity.
Interesting visual style.
Thousands of secrets to discover.
It's effectively many games in one package.
Crafting is very confusing.
It's a hassle to get a multiplayer game going.
Game Description
Enter the Do-It-Yourself World of Minecraft!
Minecraft is an open world that lets you do anything you
want. Farming, mining, questing, breeding, brewing and
crafting all await players in this game!
Truly Unlimited Replay Value
Minecraft's free form nature equals endless replay value.
You will always be finding new goals and quests to
undertake in this game. The only limit is your own
imagination! Minecraft is never the same game twice.
Survival of the Fittest
In survival mode, the goal of the game is to survive and
thrive in a fierce overworld full of danger and hunger.
When your player is first born, your most pressing goal
is to build shelter and survive the first night. After
that, your character will create their first tool, which
is usually a pickaxe. This newly acquired pickaxe will
open up the wide world of mining and gathering raw
materials. These raw materials may be crafted into a wide
variety of useful items.
Gathering items and materials is one of the most time
consuming and rewarding aspects of the game. Monsters
often drop the rarest and greatest materials for
crafting, so questing and battling mobs is a big part of
the game.
Survival mode does have a definitive ending, but the game
doesn't stop there. You may continue playing the game in
this mode even after the core objectives have been met.
Create Anything in Creative Mode
There are unlimited blocks and resources in creative
mode, freeing players to unleash their wildest
imaginings. With no hunger or health bar to worry about
you can focus on building just about anything you can
dream up. Cities, roller coasters, sets from movies and
TV shows and more are just waiting to be built. The
possibilities are truly endless!
In addition to being essentially invincible, players can
also fly in creative mode. Flying is both fun and
practical, enabling you to move much faster than walking.
Gameplay Changes According to Your Moods
The world of Minecraft is directly shaped by the player
who plays it. Go from farming one day to slaying monsters
the next. It's all entirely up to you. Minecraft defies
strict genre rules and allows you to let your imagination
run wild!
Endearing Art Style
Few people are immune to the charming 8 bit inspired
artwork in Minecraft. The intentionally blocky style
lends itself easily to a wide variety of different
creations.
Minecraft is a game that appeals to anyone with a
creative streak. If you can think it, you can make it!
Guides, Strategies, and Hints
A Game with Just About Everything
When you purchase, download, install or just start
playing a new game, what exactly are you looking for in
it? Do you want to immerse yourself in a virtual world?
Do you want to conquer challenges and solve problems? Do
you want to exercise your creativity in some way?
Minecraft shatters genre conventions like no game has
before. It does all of the above in unique ways, and it
does them amazingly well. To put it shortly, Minecraft
has managed to become one of the deepest, most complex
and most ambitious games ever produced, and it has
managed to do so with only the simplest of mechanics.
Taking Simplicity to an All New Level
If you take a simple glance at a screenshot or video of
Minecraft, you might not think much of it. Everything
looks incredibly primitive, as if the game was made in
1995. Every scene, every object, and every creature is
made entirely out of cubic blocks with only the simplest
of pixilated textures applied to them.
Give it a chance. There is an odd sense of retro beauty
to Minecraft's aesthetics. There are many blocks that are
used to represent different kinds of substances, like
dirt, rock, wood, water and metal, and they are all used
as literal building blocks to craft these massive and
intricate worlds. After a while, Minecraft looks less
like a primitive mess and more like a virtual Lego set.
There is a charm to its style.
Even so, the game also manages to throw in plenty of
ambience. Day passes into night in real time, the sky
turns golden as the cubic sun rises and sets, and animals
bark and bleat with authentic sound effects. Minecraft
may not look like a real world, but it does what it can
to feel like one.
Minecraft is Massive
Figuring out what genre Minecraft belongs to is an
exercise in futility. It dabbles in a lot of them! There
are elements of adventure, survival-horror, RPG and
simulation. You can play by yourself or with a whole
group of people. More than anything else, what's not
included in the base package can be easily modded in.
At the heart of Minecraft's gameplay is the simple act of
digging. Armed with what has got to be the mightiest
pickaxe in the world, you can use it to break apart just
about anything, including soil, rocks, iron and sheep.
Just by hacking and whacking at the environment, you can
clear out entire forests, level entire mountains, or even
dig your own elaborate networks of underground tunnels.
The potential is limitless.
Not only that, but every item you destroy can then be
added to your inventory. What you do with these items is
up to you. At the very least, you can place them anywhere
in the world. You can rearrange the scenery in whatever
way you like, or create elaborate structures, houses,
fortresses or statues with the materials you gather.
There's a great sense of accomplishment in just building
a little hut with four walls and a wooden door, but
you're free to create an entire castle complete with
towers and ramparts from the ground up if you want.
Materials can also be used to craft useful tools like
stronger pickaxes, swords and bows. You can put together
environmental items as well, like torches, stairs,
bookcases, pistons, trapdoors and ladders. The number of
things you can craft is simply astounding!
Unfortunately, this is where Minecraft's greatest
weakness can be seen. Crafting is not an intuitive
process, there are no tutorials around to explain
anything to you, and the recipes can be pretty obscure.
If you want to learn anything, then you'll have to read
up or watch a guide, as well keep a cheat sheet of
crafting recipes on hand.
However, when you do get the hang of things, crafting can
be a fun process. There's nothing quite like gathering
the right quantity of materials from the world and
putting together a legendary sword of blockiness to smite
your enemies with!
Survive
This leads straight into the Survival game. The goal of
this mode is to survive for as long as you possibly can
with the base mechanics in mind. During the day, your
procedurally-generated world will be relatively safe;
you're free to explore the place, collect resources, mine
tunnels, build forts, and simply explore to find
potentially useful resources.
When night falls, things get hairy. All manner of
dangerous creatures begin to appear, such as zombies,
skeletons, giant spiders and the dreaded Endermen. These
guys will try to kill you, so you've got to do everything
you can to survive.
How you do that is going to be up to your own ingenuity.
You can erect walls to keep them at bay, dig out hiding
spots, or take the fight to them using whatever weapons
you've managed to amass. Combat is a fairly simple affair
that works much like digging; just hack away at the enemy
until they die, hopefully before they whittle you down.
Combat's not all that deep, but it's fun to test your
latest inventions against the most fearsome creatures the
game can throw at you.
Exploration plays a huge role in Survival mode as well.
While the worlds are procedurally generated, they are
expansive and filled with all sorts of distinct biomes.
There are mountains, fields, rivers, deserts and forests
to traverse through, each of which is rife with useful
materials.
More than that, you can even uncover massive caverns and
ruins underground if you opt to dig. It's not enough to
travel across the land of Minecraft; you'll also want to
go under it. How many games let you do that?
Create
As said before, creation plays a large role in
Minecraft's gameplay. If you have more fun just building
things than surviving the horrors of its blocky universe,
then you can opt to play the game's Creative mode. You're
invincible, you have an infinite quantity of every item
and resource in your inventory, and all the time in the
world to just build whatever the heck you want. You can
construct whole cities and landscapes if you feel so
inclined, or put together blocky sculptures of your
favorite characters, robots and vehicles. You can even
make entire worlds that other players can explore.
Play Together
You can lose whole days just by playing by yourself in
Minecraft. However, it's possible to get together with
other people as well. Working with a partner or two or
three can shake things up. You can build faster, cover
more ground, and put your heads together to shape the
world in really crazy ways.
Sadly, it's very difficult to get started. In order to
get the multiplayer going, you need to download
additional software and configure the servers correctly.
If you know nothing about networking, you're going to
have a hard time getting things up and running.
Conclusion: It Strikes Gold!
Quibbles aside, there's a reason why Minecraft has been
the talk of the game industry since 2010. It's just that
amazing! It's innovative, it's creative, and it's
tremendous. You can construct entire worlds with its
tools or go on an adventure that never ends. You can
explore and shape the blocky lands by yourself in your
own image, or do so together with some company.
It may confuse you at first, but conquering the learning
curve of Minecraft will make it that much more rewarding.
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