My Minecraft Experience

  When I was little, playing in the playground, I remember thinking "wow wouldn't it be cool if they made games where I could do anything, go anywhere and build anything?" It kinda blew my mind, that in a game like that I could jump the school yard fence and just explore the world with out boundaries or limitations. Look how far we have come since those days in the early 90's when games had ceilings and boundaries!! You now have games like Grand Theft Auto, Skyrim, Fallout, Red Dead Redemption... The world is yours to explore and no one can tell you you are doing it wrong. Well that is what Minecraft is.

  I obsess about almost everything. When I first found out about Minecraft and watched the Youtube videos, I NEEDED that game. I would dream and think about it all the time even though I hadn't played it .Problem was, at that point it was only a PC game. Then it came to the Xbox 360. Finally Minecraft pocket. I bought Minecraft pocket immediately and played for weeks straight. Then when I got my Xbox, I could finally play online, and have access to more items and larger worlds.

  For those of you who don't know what Minecraft is yet, it's a open world game where you have freedom to do whatever you like. The graphics are very different from other games, and are displayed in cubes. No circles/curves exist in Minecraft. You can play this game in creative or survival mode. Creative is great because you have unlimited resources and you can build whatever your heart desires. You can find some amazing creations on youtube top 5 ranging from cities, houses and rollercoasters. Here is a link to Minecraft top 5 cities:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFtUao0qxB8 . It is truly hard to describe the difficulty and man hours associated with creating great things in Minecraft. I made a mansion and it easily took me 8 hours so a whole city with this amount of detail is incredible.

  Survival on the other hand is just what it says. You start with nothing but your bare hands and start by chopping trees and digging dirt with you hands. You gradually collect resources and by nightfall the monsters come out!! Everything from skeletons, zombies, spiders, and not to mention the dreaded creeper!! Whats a creeper you ask? Well you know that house you just spent hours building? Creeper comes up and *BOOM* it blows you up along with your house.

 If you have friends that play, you can share your creations with your friends or play online to work together to build amazing things. I hope they expand Minecraft Pocket to have online play expanded beyond same room. I mean, what am I supposed to do, go on Craigslist and look for dorks to play Minecraft Pocket with?!? I love my creative world and would love to share it!!! All my houses are connected by underground tunnels.

My first house.

My mansion.

A must play game!!
Score: 10
Replay value: 10