An autumn release for PS3's hotly anticipated LittleBigPlanet has been heavily hinted at during this week's CES in Las Vegas.
"We're probably going to be doing a public beta, get a few people involved, and try to expand that out as the year goes on, leading up to this Fall [autumn]", the game's producer, Kyle Shubel, has said of the 2008 timeline for the title.
In LittleBigPlanet 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. With a bit more time however you can construct entire levels that can then be ran through in a side-scrolling platformer style.
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. Be excited - it looks great.
I admire Sony for attempting this, it's the kind of innovation that moves the games scene forwards but i must confess to kind of losing interest in it. Per my understanding, and correct me if i'm wrong, it's only a game if you build it to be a game... so you create the characters & levels etc and run about doing well stuff or you can play other peoples created levels etc. Is that basically the long and short of it?
I admire Sony for attempting this, it's the kind of innovation that moves the games scene forwards but i must confess to kind of losing interest in it. Per my understanding, and correct me if i'm wrong, it's only a game if you build it to be a game... so you create the characters & levels etc and run about doing well stuff or you can play other peoples created levels etc. Is that basically the long and short of it?
More or less but on the blu-ray disc there will be levels and characters already for you to complete already there.
I must admit while it could be good fun, i'm not really going to get excited about this title just yet, maybe once i've tried it my opinion might change but for now the jurys out.
Am I the only one that doesn't get this? It looks cute sure, but where's the game in it?
That's up for you to decide.
The developers will provide a game in the levels they make for it.
But the game is really about creating and sharing your own stuff. Like a youtube of 2D gameplay. They give you the mechanics and the tools for defining what you want the goals to be. You can set start and end points, you can have timers, leaderboards for you level based on finishing time or collected fluff, you can hide rewards in your level, whatever. And I'm sure there's other things they've yet to show. The goal is just to have fun really, however you decide to do that.
I think this is a great game for Sony, it is original, and will attract a few gamers to the PS3-it is not just for hardcore gamers and in theory (hopefully in practice) it is amazing.
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