Sunday, November 16, 2008

It's a small world after all.

We here at 6cents have been so busy playing the plethora of new games that have come out this month we haven't been able to blog as much as we want. It's high time we did a review of some of these games we have been spending time with.

I got Little Big Planet a week later after it was released unfortunately. So I was a little behind, but found the LBP community to be generous and helpful. This is a cutesy feel-good game that just makes people friendlier I guess.
So to start off you, a brand new Sackboy is dropped into your pod which is your home. The big tutorial voice in the sky starts immediately in an begins to explain to you how LBP works. This is great because the pop-it menus, while very simple, can still be confusing at first. Most of the things you can do besides running and jumping are driven by the pop-it menu. So it is important to learn.
When you run through the levels you will pick up items you can use to dress your Sackboy (or girl) with and decorate your pod with. These items and stickers especially come in handy during play to unlock secret areas and items. It's incredibly fun to change the your Sackboy's clothes and look. You can change the material and color of yourSackboy and even slap a sticker right on his forehead. Make sure you stick a giant peacock feather to your friends head when you invite them over to your pod.
Which brings me to the co-op part of this game. You can invite your friends over to your pod and play the levels together, which is great because to get the really good stuff you will need more than one person. You will know these areas by the big X2 sign. Or X3 or X4. What? You don't have 4 friends to play LBP with you? That's okay. You can choose "Play Online" for any level and allow random new friends to join your game and help you out. That way you will never be alone. They can even play on levels you have created or other Little Big Planeteers have made.
LBP has a whole moon devoted just to you for making your own LBP levels how you see fit. If you are very creative this is where the replay value of the game will come in. This game comes with everything, and I mean everything you need to build your very own LBP level from scratch. At first it can be overwhelming but with the help of that kindly British tutorial voice gentleman you will be designing like a pro in no time.
This game is great for kids from 6 to 96. No matter what age you are I believe you will have fun playing LBP. I would give this game a solid A and that is my 2 cents.

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