Microsoft is adding new game modes to Minecraft: Console Editions, based on popular activities the Minecraft community are already orchestrating themselves. The first of these ‘mini games’ is ‘Battle’, a Hunger Games-inspired game mode that focuses on fast-paced multiplayer, with up to eight players per battle.
You're spawned in a rotation of three different maps, facing towards a little mountain of chests, with a countdown timer letting you know when to run straight for them. Charge ahead as soon as that timer hits zero and open the chests before the other players do, and you’ll be greeted with a bunch of randomized loot that will either help you take out other players, or defend yourself against them.
Those first moments are frantic – if you miss out on the weapons, potions and food inside the chests, you’re going to get killed by one of the other seven players pretty damn quickly. Running away with your loot is almost just as tense, too, with an invincibility timer slowly ticking down as you try to get yourself both safely away from other players, but in a position where you might be able to spot them coming.
Minecraft’s simple hack and slash PvP combat remains unaltered, but Battle adds those grace period countdowns, it’s own loot chest placement and automatically refills those chests with new loot as the game goes on, so console players don’t have to do those things manually to experience the ‘Hunger Games’ style game mode anymore.
Rounds are around five minutes long, and the map sizes tend to compliment that game length – they’re big enough that you can evade and hide if you need to, especially in terms of verticality, but they’re also small enough that you shouldn’t have trouble finding other players, even if there are less than eight of you. Battle also features its own in-game matchmaking system so you can find other players to Battle with online, and split-screen multiplayer for up to four players.
Battle is the first mini game to make it to consoles and is set to have more maps available for $2.99 each, though the mini game itself is a free update on Xbox, Playstation and Wii U versions of Minecraft. More mini games will be added to Minecraft: Console Edition in the future.
Alanah Pearce is an editor at IGN who one time spent over 50 hours building an underwater Minecraft house, which you can still check out on her YouTube. It probably wasn't worth it.
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