Minecraft

I am considering buying this game for my 8 year old son. I was wondering if there are any offline versions available and if so is it worth it playing offline? I only worry about him being so young and having to deal with others in the online world who can be complete DB's...(pervs and vulgar punks...etc) He wants to recreate an angry birds type sim in minecraft. The boy loves to create and I want to enhance that ability but I'm concerned about online behavior so my question is obviously two fold. Is there an offline? And if not how can assure that nothing goes wrong with him while he is online?

You can set up an online world where only people on his friends list can enter and, of course, you can control who is on his friends list. That way only his friends can get in. Live parties can be set up the same way. It would require some monitoring by you to make sure he doesn't take out those blocks, but I'm sure you plan on keeping an eye on him anyway, or you wouldn't be concerned in the first place.