168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Minecraft Legends brings me so close to reliving my glory days of obliterating the carefully crafted bases of my enemies (rea🌟d: friends and family) in old-school strategy games like Command & Conquer Red Alert. Except this time, everyt𒆙hing is made of cute little blocks and I’m up against my own children.
After years of being trolled on the family Minecraft server, my time for revenge is nigh. Minecraft Legends transforms the blocky world we know and love into a battleground for war against Piglins, and each other, as it moves into the action strategy genre. I had a chance to sample the campaign mode and several rounds of PVP, fighting against some pesky fellow game journalists. My pesky tee🍎nagers are next in line, and it can’t beꦍ that hard to beat a bunch of kids, right?
The campaign introduces you to the game slowly. It plays like many other action strategy games, albeit with a Minecraft twist. There’s a basic story to follow, shown thro🍸ugh cinematics and interactions with villagers you encounter, as you learn about the Piglin enemies and the defensive buildings you can construct. This is very much tutorial territory, and ꦰit sure feels like it.
Once we had the basics down it was time for PVP - which can be played with private or public matchmaking - and this is where the game truly shines. As we were divided up into teams and I got ready to work out what all the buildings do, the memories of old-school LAN parties came flooding back. The basics were there, but Minecraft Legends also adds 🌱a welcome twist or two.
When playing PVP, some unique mechanics really intrigued me. The first was the continued presence of Piglins. These well-known tormentors are the main antagonists of Minecraft Legends and remain in place during PVP matches. Random camps of Piglins are placed around the map and these annoying, yet somehow adorable, enemies will come and test your defences regularly so you aren’t sitting waiting for🐎 fellow players to strike. It keeps you on your toes. Not only does this add an extra threat, but you’ll also have to go out and destroy Piglin camps to ensure they don’t keep growing in strength. It’s also worth taking them down just to hear their grunts and cries, which I’m assured are all provided by professional voice actors. How much I would have paid to be 🍌in the studio for audition day.
Legends keeps many of Minecraft’s core mechanics in place, including both mining and crafting. You’ll need to send Allays out to collect resources to build with, but they won’t be able to do it alone. One of the key resources you need for upgrading bases is only available from Piglin camps. This means no more turtling. Foiled are all those sneaky people who like to hunker down and surround themselves with walls, waiting until the enemy depletes their armies trying to get in and then꧑ mopping up the pieces. You have to leave the base in order to progress, pretty much obliterating this sneaky way of playing and giving me a chance to defeat my turtle master spouse at last, no potion required!
Legends also employs pr𝓡ocedural generation. All PVP maps use this technology so every time you load into a new game you’ll need to work out where the resources are, which direction the Piglin camps are in, and how far you are away from your opponent. To make this harder, maps are split into biomes and each has different resources, so on some maps certain components may be scarce, adding a new dimension of strategy.
It’s been a long time since🔯 I’ve played a great PVP strategy game and Minecraft Legends looks set to scratch that itch. The setting is immediately a win for our whole family of Minecraft fans, and I can’t wait to start sneaking around the back of their bases and making holes in the walls with an army of zombies and creepers. Just don’♕t tell them, ok? The element of surprise is vital.
The aim is to protect your ba♚se’s core building, its heart if you will, while destroying the enemy’s, and if Dungeon Keeper taught me anything it’s that going straight for the heart ensures a swift victory.
With all my wisdom unlocked, I’m rea✤dy to finally master the art of the TNT launcher, spawn some evokers, add a few pillagers, and generally cause a lot of chaos. Although, when I finally get my hands on the full game and proceed to defeat my household in battle, my strategy may well go out the window in lieu of imagining those professional voice actors having the time of their lives making Piglin noises. It’s sure to make a great experience even better.
Minecraft Legends is set to be released on April 18, 2023, on Xbox Game Pass, PC Game Pass, Xbox One and Series S|X, PlayStation 4 and 5, Steam, and Nintendo Switch. This preview was played on PC.