GDC: PS3's must-have game arrives

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Easily the most impressive thing to come from Phil Harrison's GDC keynote this afternoon was Little Big Planet, the game Sony reckons is the perfect example of it's Game 3.0 philosophy.

In the game you start off as a small teddy bear-like creature made from wool, and you use your little avatar to construct in-game objects using materials such as wood and cloth. At the GDC conference Media Molecule developers placed a lump of wood, and then attached a cog to demonstrate the physics-based building.

With a bit more time however you can construct entire levels, which can then be ran through in a side-scrolling platformer style. At the conference, Media Molecule developers built staircases from scattered wool objects, jetpacked from a tree and clambered atop a giant skateboard to reach the finish.

Each avatar seems to be fully customizable, and created levels can be published online via a YouTube-like system where users can play, comment and vote on submitted user creations.

There's no release date as yet, but you can see the first screenshots of Little Big Planet below. Be excited - it looks great.

Andy Robinson