Minecraft Playststion 3 Edition - PlayStation 3

My 9 and 7 year old boys got this game last Christmas and all they still want to do is play this. It doesn't get old. They are always discovering new things in the game, building new stuff or going to another realm. They frequently ask me to play with them....and even this mom enjoys it. It gets them being creative! They both can play together in the same world or against each other. I believe we can add up to four players on the game so they have requested more controllers so their dad, their baby brother and myself can play with them and have family minecraft night. Minecraft has become a big thing in my house so this game gets 5 stars from the hours of creative and strategic play (on the screen and in real life) that it has given us. My boys play it outside as well. It has taken on a life of it own. This is the only video game I have ever seen both boys take off the screen a use in the real world. I honestly can't think of anything bad to say about the game, even the game music and sounds are soothing. If they are going to play a video game, this is one of the better ones.

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 a confession: I'd never played ANY version of Minecraft until I played this one. In fact, this is still the only one I've played! (My older bro got it for PC after I bought it for PS3.) I'm not going to go deep into detail about the game (other people have done that, and better than I probably could). I really didn't know too much about the game before I bought it; just about all I knew was that you could make stuff on it, including houses and other structures. But that was enough to interest me sufficiently to break down and buy it after some uncertainty as to whether I wanted to or not. I'm glad I had that particular "breakdown"! Truth be told, even after I bought it, I still wasn't quite sure how much I would (or wouldn't) like it. Turns out that I find it pretty enjoyable. Both my bro and I have had a lot of fun playing, together and separately (though when I play, it's usually with him). Sure, maybe it doesn't have everything that the PC version has (I will concede that the lack of the ability to make mods on this one is a drag), but it's still pretty dang cool! (It HAS frozen on my bro and me once, though; hopefully it won't make a habit of freezing!)A late update, from 2-24-24: As far as I know, the PS3 release of Minecraft has not been updated in several years, and is surely not going to be updated again. I think the last update was in around late '18. So if you buy the PS3 release now, you are going to get the game in a pretty old "form." It's still fun in this old form, but expect it to be quite different from any recent ones.

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.