New kid on the blocks: Lego Worlds game challenges Minecraft

IF they're going to compete with Minecraft, they're going to have to release a--free--version that runs on the Raspberry Pi.

Go Team Penis Sweep!

That Eurogamer article is a spoof. Isn't it? No?

"...They wanted a creative building MMO with a promise of zero penises seen. They actually had a huge moderation team that got a bunch of screenshots of every model, every property... ...YOU could build whatever you wanted, but strangers could never see your builds until we'd had the team do a penis sweep on it..."

That's going to look so good on a C.V.

For that authentic Lego experience...

Will you be allocated almost-but-not-quite enough of the virtual bricks you need?

Can I mod it to include a massive nuclear reactor that powers my autofarm, bee factory and lumber mill whilst summoning things from the dreamland in witchery and casting bad ass spells with ars magica? Also can I build massive floating islands and large ships? Can I recreate early computers in it with red stone? Does it have terminal computers that you can program inside it visa vi computacraft?

Minecraft isn't a game, it's a platform, it has thousands of mods and a massive community. Sure the pocket editions on the consoles and mobile devices are garbage but the real thing is awesome.

A day barely goes by without someone trying to build a minecraft clone and unless MS does something stupid that destroys the community around it none of the other games stand a chance.

Also beyond the whole creativity solo and multiplay, sky island, modded sky island, then there are thousands (if not tens of thousands) of adventure maps, giant minigame servers with thousands of players playing things like hungergames / survival / competitve sky islands / splunk / hide and seak, races / etc, etc, etc.

Not really a direct Minecraft competitor.

Having downloaded it last night it's not the same game at all.

Yes they're both procedurally generated worlds with block based building. but they've as many differences as similarities. Whether they compete or not depends on what it is you like (or dislike) doing in Minecraft.

For MC players building purely cosmetic structures in creative mode this is definate alternative, especially for those who also use MCEdit in conjunction with the game itself.

For those more interested in the survival aspects of MC then LW doesn't (at least currently) seem to offer much. Although there are occasional mini-figs that you can punch there isn't really the same level of threat as in MC.Likewise there aren't really limits to resources - have as many basic bricks as you want. More complex models (flowers, oil wells, vehicles) you can have as many as you want too once you've found one (provided you have enough 'studs' to buy the first one - they're hardly in short supply).

For explorers LW might offer more. Rather than crafting things you need to find them in the world first (the exact thing, not a few multi-purpose general components), which means lots of travelling around. Time will tell if I'm right on this, it depends on how many things there are to find and how common they are.

For the more technical MC players who like redstone they're not going to find much of interest here. Building is (at least currently) limited to non-functional lego parts. Functional stuff like vehicles is found pre-built. I can see scope for this changing if the start including Technical Lego (aka Lego Technic) parts, but even that I'd expect to feel more like building contraptions in Besiege than MC.

I hope they make

the Minecraft-themed Lego bricks available, in game.