Minecraft

  Minecraft is an adventure/survival indie game with its main focus being a sandbox title, a place where you can build, or do, anything.  Minecraft is currently on PC, Mac, Android, iOS, and Xbox 360 as a physical and downloadable title.  It will be coming to the the Xbox One in the future.  The game was created by Marcus "Notch" Persson, and later further developed by Mojang, the company that Notch made.  The Xbox 360 version was ported by 4J Studios.

  There is no story and the game can go on indefinitely, this isn't to say it's boring by any means.  You can explore the world and discover many different things.  There are several different biomes you can find, Jungle, Desert, Plains, Forest, Tundra (or winter), Mushroom, and my favorite is the Extreme Hills.  You can find villages with villagers running around in a few biomes.  Best thing is that you can build anything, as long as you have the materials.

  There are three different game modes that can be used: Survival, Creative, and Adventure.  Survival is how you would play the game normally, collect resources to keep surviving and fight off monsters in the night and in caves.  If you die, it's not the end, you can respawn where you last slept in a bed and continue but you will lose everything you had with you.  Creative is self-explanatory, you have access to all the items and blocks and create anything from some mechanisms to a entire world full of quests and treasure.  Adventure is way different than the other two game modes, you cannot break most blocks and mainly just admire the scenery.  Adventure is the main game mode that is used on custom built maps, or worlds.  People have made mods, maps, and custom textures for Minecraft.  They are able to share them online through downloads.

  Now everything I have talked about up to this point is available on the PC/Mac versions.  The Xbox 360 version does not have an Adventure mode, and no way to share worlds unless by invite.  Oh, you have to have Xbox Gold as well.  The iOS and Android versions are farthest behind, but that's to be expected.  The Xbox 360 and mobile versions do not support mods, maps, or custom textures.  They do, however, have a unique crafting menu where you just have to have the items required and find the recipe to make another item.  The PC/Mac version is slightly different in which you have to guess at what the recipe is.

  All versions can have multiple players on the same world, with some exceptions.  The PC/Mac version requires you to set up a server, unlimited players can join one server.  The mobile versions require you to have local connections, I am not sure how many people can be on one world.  Lastly, the Xbox 360 version requires an internet connection, Xbox Gold, and someone on your friend list who also has the game.  It also only supports up to eight people.

  Minecraft constantly has bugs that can exploit the game.  While Mojang fixes them, every major update creates new bugs which can do the same thing.  There are a few more issues when multiple people are on a server, a lot actually.  With more people, more lag becomes apparent, especially when redstone is involved.  Regardless, most bugs/issues are a result of lots of people on a single server.

Everyone has their own opinion on Minecraft, I think it's pretty good.  However, ^.  I, personally, give Minecraft a 4/5.  So Minecraft gets a Silver Star.

Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock

  Doctor Who is a BBC television show that features a Time Lord from Gallifrey who calls himself The Doctor and is accompanied by his companions through time.  If you didn't know this already, shame on you.  The video game adaptations of the Doctor's adventures are not that great, unfortunately.  Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock is the best example of what not to do with a critically acclaimed television series and must be exterminated.  The game is available on PS3, PSVita, and PC.

  The story is okay at best with the dialogue making it only a little bit better.  The game features the 11th Doctor (Matt Smith) and River Song as playable characters.  The game is about saving the world from the destructive force of the Eternity Clock which is able to erase and rewrite history.  You don't learn this until you're half way done with the game.  There are so many flaws with this game, it's unbelievable.  Delete, delete, delete!

  The game is visually appalling at almost every single point in the game.  The AI for the uncontrolled companion is awful.  The other character can be played by a second person, so that's good.  The actual story is unknown for half the game.  The so called puzzles are either terrible, too easy, or a combination.  The controls are clunky, and the animations are terrible.  Yet somehow I'm still drawn to this abomination!  I wish I could somehow forget this game ever happened.

  There really isn't anything else to say about this game, it's just horrible.  I guess I'll end with a quote that sums up this game.  "Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness." Guess what race this quote is from, as well as guessing what earlier jokes are from to know who the main enemies are!

  I give Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock a Red Star, or a 2/5.

If you couldn't figure it out, the main enemies are, in order: Daleks, Cybermen, the Silence, and the Silurians.

I'm sorry for the short review, but there just isn't anything to talk about on this game.