Pages

Links

Archives

LittleBigPlanet shown for PS3; a 2D mixed genre game in a 3D (online) world

supadupagama March 7th, 2007 Listen to this article "Hey! Listen!"

LittleBigPlanet was announced by Phil Harrison at the Sony keynote just now. Media Molecule’s Mark Healey and Alex Evans are the makers of Rag Doll Kung Fu and LittleBigPlanet is their next game for download on PS3. LittleBigPlanet will hit the PlayStation Network later in 2007 and on Blu-ray disc early in 2008.

LittleBigPlanet is a user designed playground, a make-your-own-platformer editing tool, the actual game with deep physics that looks beautiful and fun to play. It’s basically a 2D game in a 3D world. Maybe a mix of Viva Pinata, Spore, Super Mario Bros and Line Rider? See for yourself:

LittleBigPlanet starts with players learning about the powers of their chosen characters to interact physically with the environment. There are obstacles to explore, items to collect and puzzles to solve — requiring community-based teamwork and brainpower. As players begin to explore, their creative skills grow and they will be ready to start creating and modifying their surroundings (with anything from fruit, stars & jetpacks) — the first step to sharing them with the whole world. Ultimately, levels of the game will be user generated on a worldwide scale and will change everyday as players create, publish and share their own levels. One to four players can game at the same time.

Users have the power to design, shape and build both objects and entire locations for others to play. Players can make their world as open or as secretive to explore as they like. When it’s ready, they can invite anyone within the LittleBigPlanet universe to come and explore their field, rate and comment on it, or they can go and explore everybody else’s. You can even take photos of your most memorable platforming moments. The music sounds upbeat too.

Is the above movie not enough? For pictures go to Kotaku.

Share This

Related Products:
Related Game News:


7 Responses to “LittleBigPlanet shown for PS3; a 2D mixed genre game in a 3D (online) world”

  1. 1
    Reeteshinator Says:
    March 8th, 2007 at 4:45 am

    The 6 min trailer is so nice! Its looks great and the things we can do are also so nice!

    its going to be absolute fun!

  2. 2
    Angelbabe531 Says:
    March 9th, 2007 at 2:46 am

    Lol, looks cute. All those rube goldberg device games are all the rage. I imagined the player being frustrated it some of those areas :P It seemed the last little guy just couldn’t quite make it!

  3. 3
    supadupagama Says:
    March 9th, 2007 at 5:36 am

    Reeteshinator, it may look great, but a day has passed and I still can’t get that upbeat music out of my head! aaaah! :)

    Angelbabe531, haha yeh that last guy is going to get abused by his friends’ slap-button in-game a lot :-P

  4. 4
    eightbar » Blog Archive » PlayStation Home and LittleBigPlanet - Sony keynote at GDC introduces ‘Game 3.0′ Says:
    March 9th, 2007 at 11:14 am

    […] In the second half of the keynote we are introduced to LittleBigPlanet from Media Molecule (the makers of Rag Doll Kung Fu). I really like this. Seriously fun-looking play, with user content in spades. More words than I can write at videogamesblogger, joystiq, kotaku and more. […]

  5. 5
    Little Big Planet create-a-character demo - videogamesblogger.com: Says:
    September 4th, 2007 at 11:36 am

    […] was last shown at the Leipzig Games Convention 2007. Earlier at E3 2007 all we were shown was the Little Big Planet level creation process. Now you can take a look at the new 5-minute gameplay demonstration video that reveals […]

  6. 6
    New Little Big Planet pirate trailer - VideoGamesBlogger Says:
    December 10th, 2007 at 1:44 pm

    […] Molecule’s PlayStation 3-exclusive Blu-Ray and downloadable game Little Big Planet will be released early on in […]

  7. 7
    Little Big Planet delayed to fall 2008. Level editor video shown at CES 2008 - VideoGamesBlogger Says:
    January 8th, 2008 at 5:21 pm

    […] from CES 2008 is that Little Big Planet developer Media Molecule during a presentation said that since the game is currently in pre-alpha, […]

Leave a Reply