Minecraft Legends has good ideas, but it's ultimately held back by the decision to root its strategy action around a central hero. With a limited field of view, few command inputs, and uninteresting ...

"Minecraft" holds a soft spot in the heart of many gamers. Who could forget bounding into the house after school, snatching a Lunchable or a Go-Gurt out of the fridge, then settling in for a session ...

Until our Minecraft Legends review, I never expected Minecraft, of all franchises, to try and get in on the action-RTS subgenre. It's hardly in vogue. But after manifesting both as an episodic ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Taking the world and characters of the original Minecraft, a sandbox block builder, and putting them into a real-time strategy game with action ...

The Minecraft IP is so ubiquitous at this point that it almost feels like it’s too big to fail. Originally billed as a sandbox-style game with surprisingly in-depth mining and building mechanics, ...

Sometimes the top-line pitch for a game is better than the actual finished product. Such is the case for Minecraft Legends, the latest spin-off intended to offer a different sort of gaming experience ...

The main objective in Minecraft Legends sounds deceptively simple: destroy your enemies before they destroy you. In campaign mode, this translates to wrecking the piglins’ Nether portals, while in ...

Minecraft Legends from developers Mojang Studios and Blackbird Interactive is the latest entry in the legendary series. The fourth spinoff of the core Minecraft experience, this one takes an ...

Adrian has been writing, critiquing, and thinking about games since he first picked up an N64 controller many years ago. These days he writes reviews, news, and features for Game Rant and believes ...

Microsoft and Mojang have made a concerted effort to expand the Minecraft IP beyond the original sandbox over the years with spin-offs that take the franchise to new genres. We’ve already seen ...

A good strategy game is ultimately one about choice. Which units to create, where to allocate resources, which strategies to implement. The right decisions lead to victory, while the wrong ones force ...