Holy crap, this is an addictive game.
There's no "mission" or "plot" except what you come up with. The graphics are simple (everything is really blocky, it's almost Escape from Castle Wolfenstein all over again). You don't kill people (except in online play, and only then if you and the other people on the server want to). You don't go out trying to fight and kill every monster you see (unless you want to).
There's a lot of flexibility in what you can do with this game. First, you get an entire world to play with. You can explore, exploit and build on it. It's pretty much the ultimate sandbox game where how you use resources isn't limited by much more than your own imagination. The worlds it provides are supposed to be bigger than anybody could ever fully explore and are randomized - no two alike. So there is a real danger of building a modest base, wandering too far looking for some kind of supply source and getting hopelessly lost.
It's just a damn fun game, despite looking like shit and sounding a lot like a snooze fest. One of my gaming friends and I have been playing stuff together for years, I don't think there's been this much laughter on our TeamSpeak server... ever.
The game is worth a look. Single-player is very playable if a little frustrating and it gets even better if you go multiplayer with friends.
So what's so fun that we're laughing our asses off? We're building a tower on top of the hill our "base" is dug into. It's going to be at least a mile high (we're already above the clouds), surrounded by a lava moat with lava flowing down the sides from a pool of the stuff on the next to highest level. The highest level will be an open-air, glass-bottomed pool, possibly with a waterfall. We haven't decided yet...
There's no "mission" or "plot" except what you come up with. The graphics are simple (everything is really blocky, it's almost Escape from Castle Wolfenstein all over again). You don't kill people (except in online play, and only then if you and the other people on the server want to). You don't go out trying to fight and kill every monster you see (unless you want to).
There's a lot of flexibility in what you can do with this game. First, you get an entire world to play with. You can explore, exploit and build on it. It's pretty much the ultimate sandbox game where how you use resources isn't limited by much more than your own imagination. The worlds it provides are supposed to be bigger than anybody could ever fully explore and are randomized - no two alike. So there is a real danger of building a modest base, wandering too far looking for some kind of supply source and getting hopelessly lost.
It's just a damn fun game, despite looking like shit and sounding a lot like a snooze fest. One of my gaming friends and I have been playing stuff together for years, I don't think there's been this much laughter on our TeamSpeak server... ever.
The game is worth a look. Single-player is very playable if a little frustrating and it gets even better if you go multiplayer with friends.
So what's so fun that we're laughing our asses off? We're building a tower on top of the hill our "base" is dug into. It's going to be at least a mile high (we're already above the clouds), surrounded by a lava moat with lava flowing down the sides from a pool of the stuff on the next to highest level. The highest level will be an open-air, glass-bottomed pool, possibly with a waterfall. We haven't decided yet...
