Minecraft XBox 360 Edition Review
Author: Seán O’Sullivan
If the runaway success of its cheap knockoffs is anything to go by, Xbox 360 owners have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition. Now that it’s finally arrived with a feature-set that’s considerably pared down compared to the PC release version, and costing ten times more than the Indie imitators, Minecraft might have its work cut out trying to justify the 1600 MSP asking price.
Wednesday saw the fourth and final release from Microsoft’s Arcade NEXT event, which was the long awaited console version of the popular PC title, Minecraft. Pulling in as one of the most expensive XBLA games released to date at 1600 Points ($20 in real world money) it seems that if you live in Canada, you’re going to end up paying more than just the $20 due to Microsoft Canada’s point system that Canadian users are forced to use.
Microsoft sent along word that their next Xbox LIVE Arcade gathering of games will begin on Wednesday, April 18th, 2012, and much like the XBLA House Party and the XBLA Summer of Arcade “events”, this hoopla will have an equally silly title of “Arcade NEXT.” The four titles that will be available through the promotion will be Trials Evolution, Bloodforge, Fable Heroes, and the much anticipated Minecraft. All titles will be 1200 MS Points ($15.00), except for Minecraft, which will run 1600 MS Points ($20.00).
With the last promotion XBLA had, the XBLA House Party, the titles released were pretty hit and miss with fans, although much like this group of titles, there were some big hitters involved. It’ll be interesting to see how these offerings will fare as they are also the first batch of games to feature the achievement limit and gamerscore increase. Trials Evolution is just that; an evolution of the previous Trials game, one that I must admit was pretty damn addictive. Bloodforge and Fable Heroes I sadly know next to nothing about, and well Minecraft is… Minecraft.
Below you can find full descriptions as well as release dates for each of the four titles that will be available.
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