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After a delay that pained eager gamers, Little Big Planet is released this week (Nov 5th) on the PS3 and some reviewers are calling it the game of the year. Gamespot's given it 9 out of 10, 1Up's awarded it an A+ and it scored a whopping 95 out of 100 on metacritic.com
The game's October release date was suspended after some complaints about the soundtrack being offensive to some muslims.
Has anyone played it yet or are you planning on getting a copy?After a delay that pained eager gamers, Little Big Planet is released this week (Nov... more
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Sony PlayStation, the video games console, hopes to reverse its flagging popularity with a little-known British creation: a rag doll called Sackboy.
He is the hero of Little Big Planet, which Sony has described as the biggest game in PlayStation’s history.
It was scheduled for release this Friday, but this was pushed back after it was discovered some background music included lines from the Koran, offending some Muslims.
In Little Big Planet, players first customize the careworn toy, then control it to run and jump through a colorful world straight out of a child’s imagination but designed to appeal to gamers of all ages.
Sony PlayStation believes the simple concept created by the British games designer Media Molecule, a small up-and-coming developer based above a bathroom shop in Guildford, Surrey, has hit on the next big idea in gaming. This is because the product has an added twist – players can design their own level in rich detail, and share it with friends over the internet.
Sony executives have made the game their biggest release before Christmas and have elevated Sackboy to become the company’s first poster boy – a figurehead they hope will become as familiar as the likes of Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog.
A PlayStation official said: “We’ve never really had an icon before. That was a deliberate policy of the early days because we did not want to be pigeonholed. It’s psychologically telling that this, arguably our first mascot, is fully customizable. You can make him anything you want him to be.”
PlayStation needs the game to be a big hit, as the console has been comprehensively outsold by rivals.
Far from the complex and sometimes dark virtual worlds created by other popular games such as World of Warcraft and Grand Theft Auto, Little Big Planet is a throwback to childish “platform” games of old. Players simply move left and right across the screen, jump to avoid obstacles and collect objects. But the game has added a social networking element – allowing players to design their own levels in more detail than has ever been possible and share them with others, ensuring it constantly evolves. Sony PlayStation, the video games console, hopes to reverse its flagging popularity... more
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Speaking to VG247, Sony worldwide studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has predicted that Media Molecule blue-sky platformer LittleBigPlanet will be the biggest PS3 game this year on a global level.
“LittleBigPlanet is going to be the biggest title for Sony in all markets this year,” he said.
Yep. That includes Japan.
“History tells us how difficult it is for games developed in Europe or in the US to be successful in Japan, and with this generation we see Japanese consumer supporting more and more games coming from western Europe,” Yoshida added.
Not only will the game be the biggest PlayStation 3 game this year, said the exec, but it will show the way forward for games in general.
“It’s massively important, because it has so many things that it’s doing right in our minds,” he told us.Speaking to VG247, Sony worldwide studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has predicted that Media... more
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