My 11 year old cousin begged me to buy this game for him to play when he is over. He has an xbox but no internet and they don't have a non connected version yet.
I relented and bought the game. And now I'm hooked. It is a fantastic game.
It is. At first I hated it, but it really grows on you to the point of an obsession. I'm sure Mongoose could wax poetic on this better than me, but I think it hits somewhere at the core of being human. It takes us down to the basics of survival, building and destroying. All that is missing for our basic monkey brain is reproducing.