Minecraft Playststion 3 Edition - PlayStation 3

I was confused the first time I played. The tutorial wasn't very good. Some of the instructions would disappear before I read it all. Why people liked this game, I wasn't sure. But I gave it another try and started learning by playing and found there was a lot more to the game than I thought (like using Redstone to send signals to pistons to move blocks).It became a race to build a shelter before the monsters got me, and there were lots of materials to harvest and things I could build. It's an open world, a very large square area of deserts, trees, mountains, and endless caves. I found out from my kids that you're supposed to defeat a dragon, but I'm having fun raising animals, expanding the town, and building a castle. I got tired of gathering all the materials myself, and the monsters were slowing me down too much, so I put the game on peaceful creative mode which gives me endless supplies and lets me fly around so I can build pretty fast. It's like virtual Legos and I love building with different blocks and how I can create village houses or a garden or whatever and walk through it with my character and show my kids my awesome creation, then they show me what they made. The choices are not infinite, but there's good variety. The PS3 version is further behind than the PC version; hopefully we'll get the additional updates (like horses) some day.You can play up to 4 players split screen together. My kids (ages 11, 9, and 7) LOVE this game. The neighbor kids across the street LOVE this game. I missed work one day because I stayed up too late playing it. YouTube has songs on playing Minecraft that are SO true--Na Na Na (I Found A Diamond) and The Unknown, hilarious! The game's "fantasy violence" is very mild. You hit blocky monsters with your blocky sword and it flashes, falls down, and disappears. Creepers are the scariest and explode like TNT. That can be nerve-wracking when they sneak up behind you (unless it's on peaceful mode with no monsters). One downside is now I drive down the freeway and look at buildings and how I could make them in Minecraft.

Five hundred hours? One thousand hours? How long have I played Minecraft? I've lost track of time. At first I thought that this was a simple child's game. That is....until night fell and the mob came out to kill me. I started with no tools, no armor, no weapons, no food, and no shelter. It was like a bad dream, but a bad dream with monsters at night. The game was challenging and it quickly became addictive. I died a lot in the beginning. A LOT. Slowly, I got the hang of the game. My dirt hidey hole in the ground became a ten story luxury condo. I terra formed my entire island as flat as a football pitch. I watched every darned dog or cat that I tamed get killed by creeper explosions. My record was losing SEVEN dogs at once. Eventually I did everything that I wanted to do, built everything that I wanted to build, explored the entire island both on land and underground. However, that took me probably 1,000 hours. There are people that have been playing Minecraft for years - since the game's inception. There is a reason that Minecraft has a cult following and Minecraft gamers on Youtube have several million subscribers. This game is the best way to have fun and forget about life for a few hours. You are in another world....the world that you create. From age ten to age one hundred this is a fun game for everyone. Highest recommendation!

I have 2 children that absolutely LOVE this game. However, it was VERY difficult setting it up so that more than 1 child can play at the same time in split screen. I was extremely frustrated with this game at first as its almost impossible to figure out how 2 children can play at the same time. My kids would fight all day. So, for those of you who are having the same issue....First of all, you MUST have an HD television and an HDMI wire. Unfortunately and strangely, this is the only way. If you do have an HD tv and an HDMI wire, you must connect the wire from the back of the TV to the back of your playstation 3. Then, you must turn your ps3 on and set up the HDMI. Your ps3 will ask you "Can you see this screen?" If you see this message, you have done it correctly and you would click Ok with your playstation controller. If you have a tv that has more than one slot for HDMI wires, you must make sure you go to the channel that is supported by the port you used on the back of the tv. For example, if you used the first HDMI port on the back of your tv, you would select input, HDMI 1 and you would see your ps3 start up on the screen. If you put it n HDMI port 2 on the back of the tv, you would go to input, and select HDMI 2... Next, you can go back into the game and at first, you will not notice anything different. Chose a world and wait for it to load. Once it loads, turn the 2nd controller on and then press start...then you are able to play in split screen. I hope this helps someone. I was only able to figure it all out after doing a bunch of research online and watching a youtube video of someone else doing it. If anyone needs more help, leave me a comment and I will try to help you.Regarding the game itself, my 11 year old daughter and my 5 year old son both love it and have gotten addicted. Therefore, the game is geared toward more than one age range and gender. I would recommend it to any minecraft fan.