I'm still very excited about LittleBigPlanet, and the hands-on time PS3Fanboy recently got with the title highlights that it's not going to be a one-trick pony completely dependent on user created content. The game will ship with some significantly challenging levels that don't count lives but instead take you to a checkpoint when your sackboy dies or falls to far behind -- something that kept rough patches in recent Ratchet & Clank games from being too much to bear.
This new video shows off some menacing Helghast sackboys before launching into a flurry of very interesting, very creative and fun-looking gameplay clips. I'm dying to get this game so I can play it with my kids and if you have young children, you should be too. The ability to create game worlds for them and set appropriate challenges to ease them into learning about video gaming in general combined with very pretty visuals and a wide range of theming options has enormous potential.
The potential for add-on content is ridiculous for this game as well. Sony could end up selling add-on packs of world textures, pre-made objects, and character accessories themed by game. We could see Killzone packs, Ratchet and Clank packs, Jak and Daxter packs, Uncharted packs -- if they have a theme about it, they could make a great-looking add-on pack for it. Media Molecule would of course make them and get a cut. And we'd get our authorized fan art construction set to build a Killzone war zone studded with flowers, Clanks, Uncharted idols, and garden gnomes. Well, that's the hope anyway.
But first it has to be finished and released. Its current release date has been nudged back from September to October, and it's still so far off that I'm sure those are only best guesses. Here's hoping we'll be making Christmas-themed avatars and levels with the whole family this year.
As seen on PS3Fanboy.
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