Sackboy gaming's next star in 'LittleBigPlanet'
— -- Mario, Nintendo's beloved character, may have to share his superstar spotlight with an upstart video game character know as Sackboy.
Sackboy is the star of LittleBigPlanet, a game developed by Media Molecule exclusively for Sony's PlayStation 3. This little doll, made out of a burlap sack, is your character as you explore a revolutionary new video game. It is so good, it could be a platform maker: If you don't own a PS3, you might want to get one to explore this game.
For $59.99, you get three games for the price of one, with all three parts fitting together seamlessly. In the first part, you will experience a 2-D platformer that rivals the best of the Mario and Kirby games. In the second part, you become a video game designer; and in the third, you participate in a robust community of others who are designing new "LittleBigPlanet" levels to play.
When entering LittleBigPlanet, a magical place where everyone's dreams are stored, you start in the Story mode. You appear as Sackboy or Sackgirl, a character you design to become your hero, experimenter and builder.
The story part of the game takes you to eight different worlds with more than 20 levels of creative 2-D platform puzzles. Your goal is to figure out how to move through each environment. These environments are filled with crazy contraptions and fascinating, craft material-like scenery, much of which reacts to your movements. You will quickly realize that this is a real-world physics environment that can be manipulated. With your character leading the charge, you will learn to run, jump and even grab and move objects. You will also find tons of objects to collect, which are hidden in bubbles that you pop. Those collectibles become important in the second part of the game because they're the building blocks of game creation.
In this Story mode, tutorials abound, told by the characters or shown through hilarious videos. Each world has a different cultural flavor reflecting different parts of our real world so, in one, you'll be crawling up African animals and in another, over temples. Up to four people can explore these worlds together.
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