GameSpot – Let’s Play Minecraft together! (Xbox 360)

All right everybody it’s pax east and we’re at the microsoft booth about to check out minecraft xbox 360 edition i’ve i’ve got josh millenex here from uh microsoft to show us the game and talk to us a little bit about it josh let’s get started absolutely uh we’ll go ahead

And hit play game there uh just uh continue playing offline we don’t unfortunately have live connectivity here uh and i would just uh jump into that new world that you’re currently selected on and load it up all right sounds good so what we’re gonna be showing here is

Uh the split screen cooperative uh so as soon as we’re in here i’ll jump in as well and we can start playing around all right sounds good okay so it’s just a simple matter of hitting start button and you just drop right in exactly and uh and if at any

Point i need to take off uh i exit and you’re back in control so i’ll come back in here so in my minecraft experience i know that i’ve got to start punching trees as quickly as i can absolutely that’s a great first strategy you’re going to want to get

Yourself a crafting table created so you can start making some some weapons and items to uh to begin uh building out your world here and i get a quick uh 10 gamer score right off the bat there that’s handy absolutely you know we want to get uh we want to get

Some of that in early on uh people tend to like their achievements uh one of the things that we’ve added is uh some sort of help tips here to explain what’s going on in the world to players who may not be familiar uh so there we had a little pop-up about

Leaves you’ll also get a pop-up the first time you get under 50 durability with an item to let you know hey your items degrading you might want to create some new ones i see some trees off in the distance as well i’m going to try to pick one out

And go and get some get some tree punching of my own in uh so you uh if you see me in the distance you’ll see my health bar is kind of an outline if i get farther away it’ll be a smaller green line but you’ll still be able to see it and uh

And hone in on that so we can find each other if we get split up i know that it’s not completely necessary that i kill a cow immediately upon starting a game but i always like to do it just a sacrificial animal yeah establish dominance yeah let them know who’s boss exactly

Okay so we’ve probably got enough to build our first crafting table well actually how much do we need for our first crafting table uh let’s see i gotta confirm a few options here all right so you just need a four planks before you can create your crafting table okay

Uh so exit out of your inventory there hit x to go in the crafting menu oh okay there you go uh there’s a couple of little prompts here just to explain it and uh and then go ahead and go through that and then it’ll really relinquish control back to you

Uh so now you can create your crafting table all right and get an achievement nice um so that now you can exit out of that use the shoulder buttons to uh to choose your current active items on the the bottom bar so you uh go and pick that back up uh use the

Shoulder buttons and then left trigger to place oh there we go and left trigger again and now you’re in the uh the the crafting menu for the crafting table uh i can take advantage of that as well i might need some more some more wood other things oh yeah

I need to go punch some more trees as well yeah it’s the thrilling early hours of a of any minecraft save just punching trees nonstop i have to say the game really throws achievements at you yeah the first few are going to be a little easier to get again you know

To get people in there get people like achievements also this will be one of the first games that features the 400 achievement point limit for an arcade game oh nice uh so all the titles in the arcade next promotion we’ll uh we’ll we’ll have that okay

Uh so we were talking a second ago about updates and how this game can give us a general idea of how uh updates so it is going to have more updates than general xbla games will it won’t be in step with the pc version uh but uh but we will be

Featuring uh updates as this game goes on and we’ll be supporting it for quite a while okay and so um as is the case in any minecraft game digging out your first piece of shelter is important right exactly it’s not safe at night oops

So i just got us a little bit of a cave going over here by our crafting table and time to make sure we can build a door i have successfully hold myself up for the night in complete pitch black darkness no creepers are going to get at me anytime soon

And you can see my uh my health bar off in the distance to kind of give you an idea of where to go if you were going to try to find me yeah even when i have become a hermit and sheltered myself from all civilization i can still find

Out where my buddies are that’s handy indeed so i’ve created a little more contemporary shelter here i’ve got a bit of a door and a little bit of a cave i have to say a lot more thought went into your shelter than into mine i’ve

Just sort of dug myself a hole in the ground it’s been a while since i played minecraft and i see a sheep over here so i’m gonna start trying to get what i need to make a bed which would give us a a spawn point then that we can uh

Consistently come back too so um you know the game playing this game on a xbox 360 controller it pretty much controls like any standard first-person shooter out there right you’ve got the dual thumb sticks um and then uh the inventory is just as you mentioned before just a simple matter of

The x button for the other crafting interface here and the y button for the basic inventory interface is anything other anything else we need to know about the control system here uh in general uh right trigger to use something i like trigger to place something uh for doors uh beds uh

Crafting cables that sort of thing okay uh but everything else i think is pretty intuitive as you’ve seen uh you were able to jump in and and catch on pretty quickly uh so especially for people who are experienced with minecraft there’s uh it’s going to be a pretty easy

Transition we think all right any other xbox specific features we need to know about um other than achievements which everybody loves if you want we can take a look at a few more of them that we haven’t got yet i think we’ve gave them a pretty good sense of some of the

Achievements we can get early on great all right josh well thanks for your time any idea when this is supposed to come out yes this will be the fourth title or arcade next promotion and it’ll be coming out on may 9th all right