Intrepid exploration and soothing atmosphere make Minecraft something truly special.

User Rating: 8 | Minecraft (Classic) PC
What is Minecraft really? How about a better question -- what isnt Minecraft? It's a sandbox game populated by animals, resources and all sorts of danger that culminates in a sprawling, 3D-world comprised of blocky polygons. Yes, Minecraft is not a pretty looking game but thats also what makes it so charming. When you start a new game it only takes meer seconds for the game to generate huge, never ending landscapes that is completetly open for you to explore.

You'll mine stone and ore, craft items, build fortresses and barricade yourself from the danger that lurks during night time. Minecraft has no goals or objectives, its pure self-entertainment. You can craft and create just about everything you want, castles, waterslides, rollercoasters and the like and then marvel at your creations or play around with them. Finding everything you need to make something ambitious is time consuming but as soon as you have a general idea of what you want to make, setting out to accomplish that is superfun and you'll find yourself becoming addicted as you set out to explore every corner of this vast world.

The only downside is that Minecraft has no in-game tutorial to teach you the basics of making a shelter or what items create what. This means that you will have to reefer to outside sources which is by no means tedious, but it does mean that if you lack an internet connection and get stuck trying to create something, you are out of luck.

Minecraft has several difficulty levels to mess around with. "Peaceful" is just pure creation--no zombies, skeletons or spiders will show up at night to kill you and you also regenerate health. The baffling part about Minecraft is that if you die, respawing means respawing back where you started, and you'll have to tread back to your corpse to retrieve all your items. It can be dicing.

For just a few pennies, you'll be surprised at how fun, utterly engrossing and entertaining Minecraft can be. It's not really a game of any kind of genre, but it has managed to craft (excuse the pun) an entirely new form of videogames, all with just a few blocky polygons. That's quite an achievement.

Pros:
+Huge, dynamic world to explore
+Great crafting system
+Endless possibilities.

Cons:
-No tutorial
-A variety of glitches.

Game Emblems - The Good:
Unique
Sucks You In