WHAT IS IT?
At its core, Minecraft is a massive, open-ended, first-
person game with a focus on exploration and crafting.
Every time you load a new game, the environment is
randomly assembled so no two plays will be exactly
alike. Unlike most games, Minecraft offers little in the
way of directions, or a campaign/story mode to work
through for that matter: It's a free-form, easygoing
affair with the player figuring out what they can and
can't do through trial and error (or by scouring a
wiki). Think something like Grand Theft Auto' s
gigantic environment , but instead of attempting a
hyper-realistic world, everything is pixelated blocks.
Objects in the world are made of gravity-defying, 1 x 1
blocks that can be stacked and manipulated to form
just about anything one could imagine, from intricate
recreations of Game of Thrones ' Westeros , to movie
posters, and even Game Boy emulators capable of
playing the first level from Super Mario Land. Hell, the
Danish government has servers running so would-be
tourists can check out a 1:1 recreation of the happiest
country replete with highways, houses and landmarks.