Rōblox: Less is more

I logged on to my Xbox One the other day to see my good friend Paul playing a game called 'Rōblox' 9 times out of 10 me and Paul game together so it wasn't long after logging on I received a party chat invite. Interest piqued I enquired about the game and he described it like LEGO people in a LEGO world but not LEGO and really low resolution. I wasn't immediately sold I'll be honest, he then told me it was free to play and at that point I nearly turned off my console...
I said 'why are you playing that, it sounds rubbish?!' And oh how wrong I was!
The game isn't just a game, it's many, I'm not sure to be exact but a couple of hundred games, easy.
Launched on PC first, players on PC can actually create any type of game they want using the 'not LEGO' tools for their fancy then said games can be played by anyone on PC or Xbox One, as such Paul had heard there was a DayZ rip off in this pseudo LEGO/Minecraft mismatch.
We loaded up the game named 'Unturned(DayZ)' I'm still not sure  how they get away with copyright infringement but the game was what it said on the tin. It was a DayZ clone, sprawling map, sparse zombies and PVP survival et al.
Of course the graphics are awful, but the gameplay was just as fun, we finally have a MMO zombie survival sim on console and I personally enjoyed it more than 7 Days to Die which says it all.
I couldn't believe how much time we sank in to the game over the next few days, it makes me clamour for the real DayZ even more but this is surprisingly fun.
There's more to Rōblox than just this one game though, there's literally every game imaginable, a rip off of pretty much every huge franchise, some more blatant than others. 'Call of Roblox' and 'Phantom Forces' are genuinely great first person shooters, with guns, attachments, knives and grenades, there's no kill streaks which make it strictly gun on gun and honestly, I've had more fun than I have on more recent AAA shooters, especially with the sniper rifles, getting 3 headshots with one bullet made me do a girlish squeal. One game 'Sniper Strike' is a shameless copy of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, using the in game music, double jumps and guns but it's in game map recreations are where it shines and their knock off Nuketown map was as fun as the Black Ops 1 original!
Other worthy mentions are The Elevator in which the goal is to well, ride an elevator but you have no idea what's going to be on each floor, on one floor, a scene from Jurassic Park a giant T-Rex head plunging into the lift, the next you step off and to find yourself being used as a Pokémon in a battle, it's as ridiculous as it sounds and heaps of fun. There's also a great Slender Man game where one player controls the faceless ghoul and must hunt the other players armed with their wits and a torch alone, even with juvenile graphics the tension was there and many laughs to be had. I guess I learned not to judge a game by its cover and that maybe graphics aren't so important. Sometimes less really is more, no matter how much my girlfriend disagrees...