Ever since the Alpha mode of the much-hyped indie game Minecraft, clones or ripoffs have started popping up everywhere. Fortresscraft is one of the older ones, but gradually it's begun to get farther and farther away from where Minecraft started. Cubelands is a Classic mode clone, and there are several other games that are obviously inspired by Minecraft.
But then, Total Miner enters the arena.
(or entered, as this is old news by now)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_mgg-MNY-gOh boy! A cheap trailer!
Featuring: Unique landscapes
100% Original Textures
Terrifying (And Completely Original, Of Course) Lava Caves
Self-explanatory. When I get the time, I'll recreate the exact picture in Minecraft and then post it. You can't do THAT with a game that isn't a rip-off.
Now, you might be saying "But Blockoman! A game can have randomly-generated block-based worlds with mining, building and surviving elements without being a rip-off! After all, it doesn't have the CRAFT part of Mine
craft!"
Hmm, you're right!
No, wait, never mind.
I've read that they even go so far as to have identical tool crafting recipes, and some "blueprint finding" system for faster crafting, whatever that may mean. Oh, and did I mention there's a "Creative" mode? Either way, it's terribly sad that any game developer could go this low.
However, there are a whole heap of features that this game has that should be in Minecraft, that no modders have made, including these features:
*Cave-ins
I'm sure your mouths are all watering after that huge list of awesome features, but remember the game is a rip-off. If any of you still aren't convinced, look at their explanation for the game.
Total Miner: Forge is a block mining sandbox game. It has Creation, Combat, Survival, Crafting and RPG elements.
Do some simple replacing...
Minecraft is a block mining sandbox game. It has Creation, Combat, Survival, Crafting and RPG elements.
It's true, isn't it?
Also, one of the developers posted some information not seen in the trailer, such as this tidbit about world size
...256 x 256 x EXTREMELY DEEP. You won't believe how deep this world is. The Minecraft and FortressCraft worlds are but a puddle compared to an ocean in this regard.
As well as the three surface caves, there are another 20 underground caves. Some are actually caverns, they are quite large, and some are just awesome, massive, monstrous wormholes winding through the rock. You can only find these underground caves by digging, unless you are lucky enough to find a surface cave that happens to intersect one.
Wow, 23 caves total in each world! That's much bigger than Minecraft's infinite worlds!
NOTE: Before you rage at me / post how this game is actually fun, notice how nowhere did I say that the game isn't entertaining. It's mining, building, and fighting in a huge world with monsters and grenades, what's not to like? Plus, it's cheaper than Minecraft or Fortresscraft (I think.) I'm sure that, just like Minecraft, its developer(s?) will continue to add content, and maybe eventually it will be unrecognizable from its current form.
But as it is, the game is not original. They add things like TNT with the exact same texture as Minecraft, acting like it's a brand new original idea (PREVIEW OF BRAND-NEW TNT!!), instead of actually trying to make it a new game.
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