But don't expect updates to be as free-flowing as they are on the unrestricted PC when they have Microsoft's lengthy and expensive Xbox certification process to contend with. Mojang and 4J are determined to patch Kinect features in, as well as bring the game version up to speed with the PC original. You're unlikely to miss Minecraft's promised Kinect support, which has been withheld for now certainly the controller interface is well thought out and doesn't seem to lack anything. Use the left trigger to place items from your inventory in the world and build - the only limit to your imagination being your capacity to produce materials and ability to physically navigate to where you want to place them. ![]() Use the right trigger to gather (or attack) with whatever you have equipped, hammering away with a comically speedy and repetitive motion, consuming the world around you as voraciously as Pac-Man. You start with nothing, absolutely nothing, gathering wood with your bare hands to make tools to gather more materials to make more and better tools and materials. The goal of the game is both simple and ineffable: survive, prosper and build in a randomly generated block-world. It's no great loss this is arguably a purer version of the game, and certainly a great point at which to start playing. That's about it, especially in this earlier and simpler version of the game that doesn't feature the grind-heavy combat advancement and levelling which made it into the "final" "release" version of the PC game (the one we reviewed last year). "It will never eclipse the one true Minecraft, but Xbox 360 Edition is as close to an untamed sandbox as you can get in one shiny, sugared pellet of console gaming." It will never eclipse the one true Minecraft - for some pretty simple reasons, this is a phenomenon that could only ever have happened on computers - but Xbox 360 Edition is as close to an untamed sandbox as you can get in one shiny, sugared pellet of console gaming. The blocky graphics have a naïve charm, especially the funny and characterful monsters and wildlife that roam the world. Mojang, the company formed by Minecraft's affable creator Markus "Notch" Persson, has worked with Microsoft and port specialist 4J Studios to build a Minecraft that's slightly less advanced, much easier to get to grips with and perfectly tuned for its slick and friendly platform, while preserving almost all of the original game's unquestioned genius. Well happy day, because this excellent new version for Xbox Live Arcade is made just for me. Like so many of the great online PC games, from Counter-Strike to League of Legends, it became a cult that I didn't know how to join. Somehow I never played it - perhaps because I was foolishly waiting for it to come out of its endless alpha test - and all of a sudden it was a thing that I wasn't part of and didn't get, even though I understood it. It's been pretty hard to ignore.īut Minecraft did happen without me. ![]() I can't say that Minecraft passed me by - how could it? It's a full-blown 21st century sensation, a hit indie game that changed all the rules, a perfect storm of internet fame.
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