LittleBigPlanet (PlayStation 3)

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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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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

Part of the Following Groups

• Japanese PlayStation 3 game releases with full English support
• LittleBigPlanet series

User Reviews

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Critic Reviews

Giant Bomb	Nov 05, 2008		100
Wham! gaming	Nov 06, 2008	10 out of 10	100
Edutaining Kids	Aug, 2009	A+	100
Gaming Nexus	Nov 10, 2008	A	100
GameZone	Nov 05, 2008	9.7 out of 10	97
Good Game	Oct 20, 2008	9.5 out of 10	95
GameSpot (Belgium/Netherlands)	Nov 07, 2008	94 out of 100	94
Game Shark	Nov 05, 2008	A-	91
GameSpy	Oct 28, 2008		90
Game Arena	Nov 11, 2008	9 out of 10	90

Forums

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

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.

Awards

• Deutscher Computerspielepreis
• 2009 - Best International Game (together with Wii Fit)

GAME British Academy Video Games Awards

2009 - Artistic achievement

GamePro Magazine

February 2009 - Game of the Year (2008)

February 2009 - PlayStation 3 Game of the Year (2008)

GameSpy

• 2008 – #5 Game of the Year
• 2008 – PS3 Game of the Year
• 2008 – PS3 Platformer of the Year

Information also contributed by sgtcook, erbaltan and PCGamer77.

Related Web Sites

• LittleBigPlanet (official game website)
• LittleBigWorkshop (official community website)
• Wikipedia: LittleBigPlanet (article in the open encyclopedia)