LittleBigPlanet

Platforms

• PlayStation 3

  Oct 27, 2008

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  8.8

  playscore

  9.3

  14 Critics

  8.6

  28.3K Players

14 critic reviews · 14 community reviews across all platforms

Critic Reviews

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  IGN

  9.5

  As you can see, I had a ton to say in this review, but that's because there's a ton to this game. LittleBigPlanet is a massive game, one that is essentially two parts intertwined so well that they're practically inseparable. Media Molecule has created a brilliant platformer, and then given you the tools to recreate the whole thing over again, or better yet, to create your own ideas from scratch.

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  Giant Bomb

  10

  I wish the platforming bits were tighter. I wish the servers weren't effectively broken for the first week or so of the game's release. I wish the online worked better. But when I'm just sort of digging around, uncovering the things that people have created and shared, all of that stuff becomes very easy to forget. When it's at its best, LittleBigPlanet offers excitement and the thrill of discovery in ways that no other console game ever has.

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  Destructoid

  8.5

  The game's controls are still piss-poor, and many of the online levels are just as boring as the ones on the game disc, but that's hardly the point. Some of the levels here are well-designed, some are not, but the amazing thing is how little that matters. I've found that level design means nothing next to the amount of personality a LittleBigPlanet level has, and thanks to the game's amazing level creator, the amount of personality users can cram into their levels appears to be limitless.

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  Game Trailers

  9.4

  LBP lives up to its promise of playing, creating, and sharing. It’s a strong 2D platformer that darts into the shadow of trouble once in awhile, but it’s ultimately redeemed by its daring design. You’ve never played another game like it. Rome wasn’t built in a day, and it will take longer to make a superb level than most will want to spend, but finally those pages of graph paper from your more optimistic days can come alive.

  Reviewed on PS3
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  GameSpot

  9.0

  Little Big Planet is a startlingly imaginative take on the platforming genre, and its story mode, while short, is truly outstanding. It's down to the community to elongate the life of the game, and while only the most ardent fans will be up to the task of making compelling content, the tools here certainly have some potential. If you've not got a creative bent then you might feel like you're getting half a game, but that doesn't stop Little Big Planet being a star that burns twice as bright, half as long.

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  Video Gamer

  9.0

  The game Media Molecule has created won't do these things alone, but if gamers create the levels we think they're capable of, we might be looking at one of the most important games this console generation has seen. As it stands it's an entertaining platfomer, highly polished training tool and potential gateway to greatness. We're hoping it will end up being much more.

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  VGChartz

  9.0

  It is a very fun experience with perhaps the best multiplayer ever seen in a platformer, a visual style all its own, countless hours of gaming to be had and music that couldn’t have been chosen better. Unfortunately it also has issues of changing plane, short playtime in the included levels and a poorly thought out search function. LittleBigPlanet is not perfect, but it’s a fantastic first attempt at making an active and often ingenious community of level creators on a console game; a community which is sure to evolve even further with additional time and downloadable content.

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  IGN

  9.7

  It's a celebration of inspiration and human interaction and a hugely welcome, utterly invigorating experience among usual roster of nihilistic shooters jostling for shelf space this Christmas. It's like Bagpuss and LEGO and nostalgia met at the pub and invited everyone along -- and if the big grins and warm fuzzy feelings around the office are anything to go by every time we turn it on, LittleBigPlanet deserves all the recognition it can get.

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  Euro Gamer

  9.0

  The promise that anyone could create something simple and fun and personal with LittleBigPlanet hasn't come true. In a way, it's the opposite of Spore, which makes it easy and fun for every single player to have creative input, but doesn't let any of them change the fabric of the game. LittleBigPlanet lets them run wild, with unprecedented results, but it locks the majority out of the creative process, because it's time-consuming and simply not very enjoyable.

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  PlayStation Universe

  9.5

  LittleBigPlanet isn’t only a game for the PlayStation community – it’s a reason to join the PlayStation community. Anyone who plays games should experience this title. It’s been called the YouTube of gaming, the definition of user-generated content, the first true next-generation game and much, much more. I agree with those descriptions, but here’s something far simpler: It’s a blast, and you can’t afford to miss it.

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