Little Big Planet 2 already in the works at Media Molecule

27 October 2008

Posted by:Josh

Sackboy, crying out to be stuffed.
A LittleBigPlanet 2 sequel is already in the works! No surprise there. With the already guaranteed critical and sales success of Sony’s new flagship PlayStation 3 platformer, LittleBigPlanet, it would be completely crazy of developer Media Molecule to not already be thinking about what they are going to do for the next game in the inevitable franchise.

According to the BBC UK in an interview with Alex Evans and the rest of the team at Media Molecule, “Even before the game has hit the shops, the team are already at work on a sequel.” It goes on to say, “LittleBigPlanet has big potential. Right now it is just a game but the firm, with Sony, are in talks to turn it into a franchise that could mean spin offs including comics, cartoons, and action figures as well as a publishing platform itself for other brands’ content.”

Which jives well with some previous Media Molecule interviews in which talks of the future, and an inevitable sequel, have come up.

Update July 2009: Media Molecule boss Alex Evans had something new to say about Little Big Planet 2. To quote: “I’d love there to be a sequel, put it that way. But that’s not an announcement – although I will say that the entire team is working on LBP.”

But it only makes complete sense if you ask me. And not just the part about a video game follow-up and Downloadable Content (which is a no-brainer), but also the part about additional brands in other industries, like comic books, cartoons, action figures and . . . what I want to see most, plushies! The LittleBigPlanet characters really beg for this stuff due to their uber-cuteness and mass-market family-friendly appeal. Heck, I’d buy one with no questions asked.

My only worry will be if they saturate the market with LittleBigPlanet-related things and it loses it’s appeal. But hey, Viva Pinata did it, even the cartoon part, and yet I don’t see it hurting that brand. And lets not even get into Pokemon . . . So I definitely see Sony going this route, especially since Sony now has a big kid-friendly brand, something they lacked previously, to compete with the likes of Viva Pinata from Microsoft and Pokemon from Nintendo. Let the cute wars roll on!

Media Molecule co-founders Kareem Ettouney and Mark Healy were asked about Little Big Planet 2 on disc:

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JDonahue79

I would love for Little Big Planet 2 to be in 3D as supposed to being 2D with 3 layers.

I did play it with the level editor and you can do some crazy stuff with it.
jaik

please include a double jump of glider would be cool too. and 3d would be awsome. another thing is that by changing the faces (mad , angry ,scared, etc.) would set his overall agression. that would be awsme.
Sam

Double jump would be great fun. I can’t see a LBP game being bad, cause if the levels are bad, you create different ones.
But 3D? Propperly 3D would make it suck, its one of the core things that makes the game unique, having just 3 layers.
Kisu

Are you blind? It is 3D.
jennifer

whens it coming out?
Owen

I would buy a plushies too!
http://youtube.com/evlibunny imxlnt2

its 3-d with 2-d environment your both right!

i would like to see more of everything… a bulkier sackboy!
jon

i really have no idea what they plan to include in a sequel. the add on-ability and create-ability make it amost infinite. so the way i see it the change would have to be major. something to do with the overall structure. its already in 3-D but i would like to be able to sculpt objects on every axis. and maybe more layers.
Dael

I would totally buy a Sackboy plushie, i mean, who wouldn’t?
xbox gamer

Wow that’s so stupid, my friend has ps3 and he makes fun of me for playing mario and viva pinata and he has LBP which is “the best game of 09″ don’t get me wrong its an ok party game but why make a sequel its juss party games?…..