It may just be me, but I believe the current state of games is rather stagnant. It seems to be flooded with shooters. This isn't a really bad thing, but it does help to have a little variety. After all, we may love burgers, but if we're fed them everyday we do get sick of them.
Enter LittleBigPlanet, Media Molecules attempt at something new. A 2.5 dimensional Platformer that gives players the power to create their own levels. And as an added bonus players can then publish their levels on the internet and let other players from around the world play them too. Sounds wonderful doesn't it ? It is my friends, it is.
Now I'm giving my honest thoughts here. When I first played LittleBigPlanet I was severely underwhelmed. I was seriously considering taking it back and trading it in for Resistance 2. But after I spent a bit of time with it I started to see the real charm and character of this game. The controls at times seem a little awkward, but that's only because we haven't had too many side scrolling Platformers in the last 10 years. Had there been more then the controls of LittleBigPlanet would of been fine. I liked the controls.
There is no denying the sheer brilliance of the gameplay. As a fan of old school 2D platformers LittleBigPlanet filled this much needed gap. The physics in this game are unbelievable. I believe that LittleBigPlanet is the game that truly showcases the power of the Cell Processor. Not from a graphics point of view, which are absolutely gorgeous, but from the physics point of view. It executes everything flawlessly. The other surprise is the amount of customization available to Sackboy. Get through levels and you can use different materials, new accessories and all sorts of new things. It gives you the incentive to find everything in the game.
I don't speak for everyone when I say the level building kits are difficult to use. For anyone interested in making your own levels I thoroughly recommend you go through all the tutorials on how to build a level because you will be stuck and confused if you don't. It isn't my favorite feature of the game. The only reason I used was to unlock trophies.
The single player experience was rather short, but very challenging in parts. Some of the levels will test your patience and your platforming ability. There is an abundance of levels and side challenges that will provide many hours of entertainment.
As good as the single player is, the real gem of LittleBigPlanet is the online. The amount of levels available are phenomenal. And alot of the available levels are sheer genius. To see the creative minds of fellow gamers out there is a real pleasure. If you like the gameplay, and some of you might not, then you will spend hours upon hours playing online. Whether with friends or on your own, there is alot of great levels online in LittleBigPlanet.
It is a real pity that there aren't more games like LittleBigPlanet. This game proves you don't have to have a gun to have fun. It is a fantastic game that gets better the more you play it. Older gamers will enjoy it for sure. I did. Great Job Media Molecule. I hope for more games like LittleBigPlanet. It's a wonderful change from the abundant amount of shooters available.
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.
love the game.
Nice review!!