It's occasionally buggy, but tremendous amounts of fun, and worth the price of the app alone, especially on a long train or car journey (if someone has an Android phone with Wi-Fi hotspot capabilities).ĭon't buy Minecraft: Pocket Edition if you haven't played the full desktop version. Users of either the Android or the iOS version (it's cross-platform) can allow other people on the same Wi-Fi network to join the game, meaning you can build your dream home together, or destroy each other's work mercilessly. The best feature, however, is the multiplayer functionality.
The one consolation to this is that you can interact at a greater distance than you'd be able to in the desktop version, meaning that you're not constantly having to reposition yourself to reach blocks. While the team has done a good job of the tough task of translating the left- and right-clicks of the normal game to the touchscreen format, it's still a huge pain when you're building a larger object, or trying to mine a room out of the rock. As a result of this, performance is flawless on the latest Android phones and the iPad 2, and still perfectly playable on an elderly Nexus One. That's a pity, because Minecraft's magnificent landscapes are one of its greatest strengths. Even on high-powered handsets, with the highest video settings, there's a painfully short draw distance, resulting in everything beyond a certain point being swathed in a dense fog. The compromises that have had to be made to get it onto mobile devices are very evident, too. If you take the game out, all that's left is a 3D modelling tool with an excruciatingly low resolution. Minecraft's strength is that it combines a game with a canvas for creativity. Some people prefer not to have their creativity ruined by an errant Creeper at the wrong moment. You don't have to breed sheep to get wool, and then dye different colours - you just get unlimited amounts of multicoloured wool from the start. Minecraft and the Pocket Edition is that the latter only includes the somewhat-limited Creative Mode - one where there are no monsters, no danger, and infinite resources. The difference between the main version of
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