Imagine a world where anything is possible. Where your dreams can become reality. Where you can create a new world and share it with friends, even play with them. Imagine a world where developer and player are one in the same.

This is LittleBigPlanet.

Release Date : Jan. 18th

Normal Edition MSRB - $60

Special Edition MSRB - $80

Story Mode:

• More levels, 50+, double the first game
• Exciting new powerups and gadgets add tons of variety
• Hours of fun in new multiplayer challenges

Powerups:

• Grappling Hook - I think this is self-explanatory, can you imagine what kind of levels will be made with it.

• Bounce Pads - In LBP1 it took an engineering degree to firgure out how to make a sping or bounce pad, now its a standard part of the game. Get ready to bounce around like a famous blue hedgehog.

• Creatinator - A helmet which shoots out ANYTHING. You can make it shoot out missles, cakes, foam, ice, lasers, pidgeons that fire lasers, ninjas, ninjas that ride pidgeons that fire lasers.

• Power Gloves - Special gloves that allow Sackboy to lift large objects and carry them around, great for puzzles.

• Sackbots - Give them AI or make them become vehicles for Sack to control, sackbots allow you to create an army of NPCs.

• Controllinator - The big one. This allows you to make a vehicle or robot that you can control and map actions to the PS3 controller. You may give the robot new jump physics and powers which totally alter the controls.

Create Mode:

• More tools than ever before to make the kind of game you want to make.
• Easier to use tools, no more million switches to make a door that opens.
• Have multi-switch, large complex mechanisms put on a small microchip. These microchips can be shared throughout the community.

• A full music sequencer to make your own music and levels where actions are tied to the music

Community Levels:

Make almost anything you want in a wide variety of genres. Here is just a small sample of levels made in the beta

How do I find levels?

I know that finding levels was a pain in the first game. Now Media Molecule is making it easier to track the best levels. LBP2 has a reworked search engine and ranking system to make the best levels easier to find.

There is also a new website, LBP.ME, which acts like the facebook of LBP2 where you can que up levels you find for quick access when you are in the game.

Another great site is LittleBigPlanet Central, a site which has been spotlighting the best user levels for years now. Use this site and LBP.me and you will always have excellent levels to play.

Reviews:

EuroGamer 9

IGN 9

Gamepro - 5/5

Game Informer - 9.5

1up - A-

NowGamer 10

Edge - 9

CVG 9.4

GamesTM 10

Games.cz 10

Meristation 9.5

Joystick 5/5

Gamingbolt 10

Sixthaxis 9

Gamereactor 9

IncGamers 8.5

Pfft copying stuff from Gamespot. What a shame! And the original hread title 'it is just minigames' was much better.

Oh and the reviews are not as high as I thought they would be. Shame on you Vader for hyping me up.

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Iga_Bobovic said:

Lackluster? At least I don't copy paste my stuff.

Vader, if you were a man ( which you are not, you Sonic love indicates that you are in fact a abused housewife and a hairy one at that), you would have copy pasted the LBP2 'it's just minigames' thread to the GGD.

That doesn't make any sense. If I did that it would be lazy, are you saying men are lazy, why would I reuse an old thread?

Its time for a new release thread, I made one thread for both sites at the same time.

Yes real men are lazy and real men use trollish titles to annoy the fanboys.

Iga_Bobovic said:

Yes real men are lazy and real men use trollish titles to annoy the fanboys.

Fine.

LBP to break 5 Guiness Book World records, they are detailed below.

In celebration of the January 18th launch of LittleBigPlanet 2, we’ll be partnering with Guinness World Records next week to set five new records over a three-day period. Beginning on January 17th and going through January 19th, a small team of dedicated LBP fans will take over the PlayStation Lounge at the Sony Style store in New York City to set new gaming records and earn their place in history. If you’re in New York and would like to come check it out, feel free to drop by:


The Guinness World Records to be set include:

1.Longest marathon playing LittleBigPlanet 2

2.Longest marathon playing a platform video game

3.Most video game genres played in one video game in 24 hours

4.Most user-generated video game levels played in 24 hours

5.Most user-generated video game levels played in a marathon

LittleBigPlanet 2 will also be recognized for the following records:


1.Most gaming genres in one video game

2.Most player-created levels in one video game


If you can’t make it down, no worries, we’ll be LIVE streaming our World Record Event online right here on the PlayStation.Blog. Stay tuned for our unprecedented schedule of LittleBigPlanet 2 goodness hosted by Veronica Belmont from Qore and our own Jeff Rubenstein. Check in and watch the live action, interviews from anyone and everyone who loves Sackboy, and behind-the-scenes access with Media Molecule, plus tons more. You can even help us decide on which games to play next or tweet in your questions to anyone at the event. Whether it’s watching our fans staying up playing LBP2 into the wee hours of the night, checking out the Subway lunch break, or enjoying the back and forth banter of our LIVE event, we promise a good time. Want more details? Click here.


This record setting event also commemorates the release of the Guinness World Records 2011 Gamer’s Edition, the latest chronicle of video gaming history. LittleBigPlanet looms large in this year’s edition of the book with the game’s main character lovable, stitched-together main character, Sackboy, gracing the book’s cover and a bevy of facts and records cited within its pages. Known as the “Video Game Bible,” the fourth and latest edition of the popular series comes packed with 90% new or updated records and 750 never-before-seen amazing images appealing to everyone from hard-core gaming veterans to first time gamers and families. The Guinness World Records 2011 Gamer’s Edition will be available on January 20th for $14.99.