LittleBigPlanet (PlayStation 3)
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LittleBigPlanet PlayStation 3 Front Cover

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Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc.

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Description

LittleBigPlanet is a puzzle platformer where the player controls sackboys. It takes the characters on an adventure through levels with different themes and settings, trying to reach the end of each level alive. The platforming is based entirely on physics where the sackboys can push or pull items, or generally manipulate them with their movement or weight. In addition to running, jumping, pushing and pulling, it is also necessary to master grabbing dangling objects and swinging from them to get over some obstacles and traps.

The game can be played by up to four players simultaneously with some puzzles requiring more than one player to be solved. Levels consists of three planes: foreground, middle, and background, which can be traversed.

Next to the main game with about 50 levels, a large portion is devoted to creating user generated content. Players can design their own levels and devise custom rules. The objects used to build up the levels are largely based on the characteristics of real world materials emulated by the physics engine.

During the course of a level, stickers can be picked up for (mostly) decorative purposes or new items used to dress up the sackboys or for inclusion in the player's own levels. User created content can be shared via the PlayStation Network.

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LittleBigPlanet PlayStation 3 This water wheel contains loads of goodies

LittleBigPlanet PlayStation 3 This room is chock full of treasures!

LittleBigPlanet PlayStation 3 After you've been photographed somewhere, you can use that photo just like any other sticker!

LittleBigPlanet PlayStation 3 Collect prize bubbles like these to get new bits and bobs to use in the level creator

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Alternate Titles

"The Next Big Thing" -- Working title
"LBP" -- Common abbreviation
"Craft World" -- Working title
"リトルビッグプラネット" -- Japanese spelling

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User Reviews

Play, Create, Share	Masa♥Yuki (3090)

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Critic Reviews

DarkZero	Nov 13, 2008	10 out of 10	100
ZTGameDomain	Oct, 2008	10 out of 10	100
UGO (UnderGroundOnline)	Nov 03, 2008	A	100
Gaming Age	Oct 28, 2008	A+	100
Gameplayer (Australia)	Oct 14, 2008	10 out of 10	100
IGN UK	Oct 14, 2008	9.7 out of 10	97
Computer and Video Games (CVG)	Oct 14, 2008	9.6 out of 10	96
Worth Playing	Nov 18, 2008	9.4 out of 10	94
GamingTrend	Nov, 2008	544 out of 600	91
Armchair Empire, The	Dec 23, 2008	7.5 out of 10	75

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Topic	# Posts	Last Post
Need some help with the credits	2	Richard Kaplan (15) Jan 02, 2009

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Trivia

1001 Video Games

LittleBigPlanet appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.

Postponed release

The release of the game was postponed for a week because of some offensive content. A few days prior to the official release, a post on the PlayStation forums claimed that a song played on the first level of the third world (Swinging Safari by Malian musician Toumani Diabaté) contained a lyric taken from the Quran. Sony immediately recalled all copies of the game and replaced the offending track with an instrumental version, however, there are reports of some copies having been sold before the official release date. For the EU version, these copies can be identified by the Sony product code on the disc. In the modified release of the game the code ends on "#2", whereas the code on original, unmodified discs does not.