LittleBigPlanet is one of the only games alongside Call Of Duty: World At War, Metal Gear Solid 4 and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, to be hyped to death, and actually live up to its hype, unlike Grand Theft Auto 4 (As many would say although I completely disagree).
In LittleBigPlanet, you play as Sackboy, an adorable little character, who lives up to his name! He is a small person, and he is made out of the same material that sacks are made of! As Sackboy, you must fight and think your way through a variety of different puzzles and dangerous obstacles as you fight towards the goal of rescuiung all of the LittleBigPlanet inhabitants.
The game is warmly introduced by a great narration by Stephen Fry, while you play through an introuduction to the whole Media Molecule team. Eventually, you end up next to a TV and a switch. Common sense makes you jump on to the switch of course. Then, a video comes up onto the screen, also narrated by the legendary Stephen Fry. This video explains that you can edit how your Sack Person looks. At the start, you will only have a couple of costume options, but as you progress through the game, you will earn hundreds of more costume items.
After the introduction, you will appear in your Pod, which is basically your menu, where you choose if you want to create your level, view online things, or play on the Story or someone else's level. However, you will not be able to create your own level yet. First you must complete some levels. This might put you off, but until you complete the game, all you will be doing is probably the story mode, as it is infuriatingly addictive, although sometimes frustrating.
Once you have unlocked the create mode, you will notice the same as you noticed when you were customising your Sack Person for the first time. There will be only a couple of items on your items page. This will also be because you will have to work your way through the story mode to unlock more items. Once you have enough items to make a fully functional level, you will be able to let your imagination loose! You can actually make absolutely anything! There are no exceptions. Even making a replica of your room will be possible with the right materials and a good time spent on editing the colours.
Once you have fully explored the game, you will maybe actually want to play somebody else's level. Trust me, most of the levels that people publish online are very good, with the exception of 2 or 3 authors.
After having done this, you will go onto another game perhaps. I did exactly the same. I went onto Call Of Duty: World At War and spent enough time on that without stopping to complete the story on Regular. As soon as i did the campaign, i had some fun on the Nazi Zombies game mode. But when i failed, i actually went onto LittleBigPlanet again! And i haven't been off it since.
An absolutely terrific game made by a relitavely unknown company. Thank you Media Molecule.
It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.
Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
https://www.playstationlife...
They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.
They're scum.
"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."
Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.
Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.
But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?
Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.
Times are changing, and these games would have never been made in today's climate.
Every single time someone uses this phrase whether it's music, movies, books, comics, video games, etc it's always the same claim.
The ubiquitous "they" won't allow it to be made. And every decade these claims are made the claimant completely ignores all the "offensive" material that is published when the claim is made.
In ten years, you can write a new article about how you can't make games like Helldivers 2, Resident Evil VIII, Mortal Kombat I, Dragon's Dogma 2, Alan Wake 2 etc etc etc any more.
Dead Island: "The early PC version of the zombie game swapped the playable character Purna’s Gender Wars skill with a prototype name, which shouldn’t be mentioned directly. The skill name made fun of both Purna as a character and feminists."
"Feminist Whore" lmao
ill add one more to the list.
drakengard 1.
its ridiculous tho, especially since they'd still be able to find their place in alot of places in the world. except america of course ha. and maybe Australia.
ppl are so sensitive these days. ha. but it is what it is.
They're not offensive.
And we need another Fat Princess. Fantastic little game!
Some people just have no sense of humour if this sort of thing offends them. They need to lighten up and stop taking themselves so seriously.
Alex DS. from Link Cable Gaming writes: "Is the PlayStation 3 retro? This is a surprisingly hard question to answer as the system definitely has the age to be considered retro, having launched in 2006, over 15 years ago now. But with it being home to so many massive games, many of which still hold up today and in fact were released for the PlayStation 4 when that console was released, make the PS3 a retro console that doesn’t feel retro."
Typically, the term retro is given to items which are at least 20 years old (but not yet 40 years old).
Quick google search
No the PS3 is not yet a retro console. But if you're gonna put 1 game from a series in this list, then LBP2 should be there instead of the original, Motorstorm PR is also an overall better game than the 1st game and to put Tools of Destruction over A Crack in Time is a blasphemy when ACiT is the best game in the series.
I wouldn't say Force Unleashed, MGS4 or CoD:WaW lived up to its hype, but that might just be me. Nonetheless, LBP is a good game indeed. Annoying controls at points, and a couple of glitches, but tons of fun to be had.