The game, which can be played on a computer, on Xbox 360, or on a smartphone app, doesn?t rely on high-resolution graphics or keep track of earned points. It?s nothing like those road-race games that favor fine motor skills and quick reaction times. Think of it as a SimCity with treasure hunts and lost-in-the-jungle adventures of infinite possibilities. First-time players of Minecraft enter a blank ?natural? landscape of trees. Discovering that the sun will soon set and darkness is nigh, they must gather wood and build a shelter or risk being extinguished by the monsters of the night. As the name of the game suggests, players mine the environment for materials then craft things like pickaxes, fishing rods, even chocolate-chip cookies. (When Conan O?Brien reviewed Minecraft recently as part of his series ?Clueless Gamer,? he said: ?Taking things out of the ground and then building things. ? So it?s like we?re in Wales in the 19th century and we?re desperately poor. What a fun game for kids.?) Once that task is mastered, other opportunities beckon: Mine for diamonds, tame cats, stock chests with found objects, create glass windows by building kilns and gathering sand, make bows and arrows out of spiderwebs (but be careful?vanquish those spiders first!), lay out railroad-like roller coasters, design wonderlands for friends to visit. There is no end to the options.
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