23 October 2008
Ferry

LittleBigPlanet review video (PS3)

In LittleBigPlanet for PS3 players meet on a blue and green planet scattered with individual plots – and use their character’s amazing abilities to play, create and share what they build with other gamers throughout the world via the Playstation Network. The LittleBigPlanet experience starts with players learning about their character’s powers to interact physically with the environment. There are places to explore, creative resources to collect and puzzles to solve – all requiring a combination of brains and collaborative teamwork. As soon as players begin their creative skills will grow and they will soon be ready to start creating and modifying their surroundings – the first step to sharing them with the whole community.

Characters have the power to move anything in this glued and stitched-together 3D landscape; they have the power to design, shape and build both objects and entire locations for others to view and play. There’s no complicated level editor; all of these skills can be learned by simply playing the game. Creativity is part of the gameplay experience and playing is part of the creative experience. 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 community to come and explore their patch – or can go and explore everybody else’s.

Does Media Molecule deliver an instant classic? Find out in this LittleBigPlanet video review.


Game features include:
* Play the game, learn the skills and then find your own way to play. There isn’t a set solution to anything – you live LittleBigPlanet however you want to.
* Create your own content – customize your character and build your own locations. You have the power to rearrange anything in this unbelievably tactile landscape.
* Build, move, create, collaborate – then share content with friends or publicly by inviting the whole world to come and visit your own location on LittleBigPlanet.
* Unlimited possibilities for user-created content – players can customize everything: their characters, the landscape around them and their own patch on LittleBigPlanet.
Players discover and win new skills and items to aid them on their creative journey.
* Initial levels will be provided – endless others are user-generated on a global scale. LittleBigPlanet changes every day as players contribute their own levels.
* Online and offline multiplayer modes – play alone, work as a team or get competitive
* LittleBigPlanet global community for players to get involved with – includes player comments, rankings and easy communication with new and existing friends

To quote the IGN video review: “LittleBigPlanet is a massive game, one that is essentially two parts intertwined so well that they’re practically inseparable. Media Molecule has created a brilliant platformer, and then given you the tools to recreate the whole thing over again, or better yet, to create your own ideas from scratch. It’s not perfect — the controls could be tighter, automatically shifting between planes can be problematic, the editor isn’t quite as robust as you might hope — but what’s there is nothing short of astounding. If you own a PlayStation 3, you cannot miss this. If you don’t have a PS3 yet, this is the reason to get one.”

Presentation — 10
Graphics — 9.5
Sound — 9.5
Gameplay — 9.5
Lasting Appeal — 9.5
Overall — 9.5