The PS4 and Xbox One versions of Minecraft allow two- to four-player split-screen play, and there’s an online mode that accommodates up to eight.
Those goals don’t change when you bring friends in, but whether you’re cooperating or trying to outdo each other with larger, grander creations, having other people there makes Minecraft more rewarding.
All the while, gathering new blocks and items sent my mind reeling with more ideas for landscaping and home decoration. Losing everything I carried to a Creeper who got the drop on me was a heartbreaking lesson, but the excitement of exploring new places and the risk it entails provided a constant tension. The amount of danger I was in was tied to how far from my base I roamed. Down there I realized those same enemies that are easy to defeat on the surface felt far more challenging to fight in the confines of a rocky corridor where they could ambush me. Why have enemies at all if they become laughable in no time?īut later, as my ambitions for building outgrew my resources on hand, my quest for new materials drove me deeper underground. Once you obtain the simple items needed to ward them off, they become almost completely non-threatening. They are scary and dangerous… for maybe an hour. When the sun goes down, Minecraft’s bad guys come for you. I had to gather, transport, and place each piece of my home myself, so it was impossible not to feel a fierce sense of pride and ownership over it and all my other creations, big and small. What initially feels like a tedious task becomes the basis for Minecraft’s rewarding core gameplay. In Survival mode, each block must be chipped at and collected by hand from an open world. This is a power we rarely see in games, and the freedom it offers is, at first, daunting.
It could be a mountainside home, a huge tree house, a skyscraper, or any other creation you can envision. Piece by piece you’ll rearrange and refine the pristine, primordial world into whatever you want. What makes them great is how they enable creativity. The blocks are colorful, distinct, and memorable thanks to simple but charming textures. Minecraft’s randomly generated worlds are composed of these big blocky cubes of dirt, stone, sand, and dozens of other materials.
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