In less than a week, Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition will become available on the Xbox Live Marketplace. While the steep 1600 Microsoft Points ($20) price tag may not make the game seem all that appealing, the latest trailer highlighting the game’s various multiplayer options certainly does.
According to the latest trailer, Minecraft for Xbox 360 will be home to eight-player simultaneous online play. Furthermore, a group of buddies can get together in front of a single television and enjoy some four-player split-screen action – a great feature that all too many games seem to leave out nowadays. The teaser does a great job of generating some hype for the upcoming Xbox-exclusive downloadable indie title, and those who have been waiting for Minecraft to make its way over to consoles will find a lot to love in the new trailer.
The ability to have friends just jump into your game at any moment has been the dream of many Minecraft players – and the nightmares of others. It’s true that more people will be able to play simultaneously on a server, but hosting one of those can be a pain in the butt. Unfortunately, less-than-kind friends playing the Xbox 360 version will be able to destroy buildings and steal valuables if they feel so inclined.
As is evident from the lack of a food meter in the trailer, there is also no ‘Survival’ mode in Minecraft for Xbox 360 – as PC players will know it from the ‘Adventure Update‘ update anyway. This will come as a bit of an unpleasant shock for those hoping that the experience on consoles would at least be on par with the PC version. Still, the classic SMP version of the game appears to have made the transition to Microsoft’s hardware pretty well, Creepers, tameable wolves and all; that much is made clear just by watching the new trailer.
Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition is currently building itself up for a May 9th release exclusively on the Xbox Live Marketplace.
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I hope that Survival mode is included, or at least brought in an update, because that makes the game a lot more fun, at least to me. What I would also like to see is custom skins, mods, texture packs, and large multiplayer servers. That being said, it looks pretty good already, but without Survival Mode, I won’t be getting it, as I already have it on my laptop. With Survival, I might get it, just to be able to easily play with friends.
I believe they said that Survival, Mods, Skins and some other stuff will be added over time
I hope so, otherwise there will most likely be a lot of people who won’t buy it.
I’m currently playing the game for review, and I’m not allowed to talk about it until Monday. I may have pointed out the lack of a food bar for a reason though… Then again, maybe it’s just some speculation.
There WILL be future updates though. Whether or not those updates will be free is still unknown.
Well I’m looking forward to reading what you have to say about it. Also, I imagine the updates will be free. I mean, why wouldn’t they be? They’re free for the PC version, and there tends to be one every few weeks or so, so if it wasn’t free, it would accumulate to a hefty fee in the long run.
Unless EA somehow gets ahold of the rights to it, in which case we will have to purchase Online Passes, pay for updates, and most likely be charged for applying mods, skins, and texture packs
The review should be up on Monday.
I’m inclined to agree with you. Microsoft, on the other hand, may not. They’re not huge fans of giving away free content – they even made Valve charge for content in L4D that was given away for free on PC.
I’d think Mojang worked out a special arrangement to provide the updates for free though.
It just seems to be the big companies that don’t care about the consumers. I hope Mojang works it out so the updates will be free. Otherwise, I won’t buy it. At sixteen years old, it’s hard enough to find work to get the money to buy a game in and of itself, let alone needing to pay for extra content.
No survival mode? Are you blind?
The lack of the hunger meter and XP bar do not indicate that there is no survival, its just an earlier version. There is no creative mode (at launch) which may cripple a few minecraft players that aren’t into the survival aspect on Minecraft which is understandable.
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I wonder how the game goes about saving a world that you create online with friends, and if it will allow friends to continue working on that world even when the party leader that started the world may not be logged on?
What i would like to see in regards to that is maybe letting the creator of the world select certain friends too be able to access the world whenever they want, and others need permission to access it. This would require cloud storage of the map of course.
yes i agree with SweetSchism on his comment i hope survival is on it and i cant wait it comes out on monday and i have the date saved