Imaginative, charming, and loads of fun, LittleBigPlanet is an amazing game where you can create and share your levels, or play other levels online. Creating your levels is easy once you get through the tutorial. Playing with your friends makes the game even more fun. If you own a PS3, you simply must buy this game.
LittleBigPlanet
(2008, Video Games - Puzzle, Rated E)
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Common Sense says
Amazing game where you play, create, and share.
In this game kids can: create an avatar, play in a virtual world, solve puzzles, use logic to win
Why We Rated This 
for Ages 8 and Up
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What Parents Need to Know
This review of LittleBigPlanet was written by Jinny Gudmundsen
Parents need to know that this game offers three for one price. It's a unique platform puzzle game, a game-creating kit, and a community to share and explore how to make games. Since the community is online, parents might want to explore this community with their kids younger than age 12, because while the community is closely monitored, creative sorts sometimes choose age-inappropriate themes for their work (at the time of this publishing, there is a YouTube video showing a player-created level where Sackboy, the main character, is a little sperm trying to be ejaculated). It's possible for your child to stumble upon something you would rather they didn't before the game monitors pull down the inappropriate content. On the other hand, this is a community where creativity and inventiveness is celebrated. And it's one where you can play with friends or family either online or on the same console (for up to four players).
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What’s the Story?
LITTLE BIG PLANET is a game that deserves all the hype it has generated. It has three parts to it. First, it's a charming platform puzzler where you control your self-designed "Sackperson" as they run, jump, and explore eight crazy wonderful worlds full of Rube-Goldberg-type contraptions and scenery that looks like it was created at a craft festival. Second, it's a video game designing kit where you can design your own zany platform puzzles. By playing through the eight platform puzzle parts, you earn things to put into your game-designing kit. And third, it's a community that celebrates your imagination and the invention of others by allowing you to share your levels with others online and also permitting you to play through other people's levels.
In the first part, known as the Story, you're guided through this world by tutorial videos filled with quirky humor. The world you're exploring has been created from people's dreams, and each of the eight worlds you explore has a different look and feel. You will learn how to collect special bubbles to get a high score and other bubbles to earn prizes. To proceed through each environment, you will run, jump, and grab onto things that populate this world. You will discover that the laws of physics in this world are fascinating -- walk up the side of a triangle and your weight will make it tumble over. Bump up against something and it will move. This is a highly responsive world. After completing the first three levels in the Gardens, you can gain access to MyMoon where you meet others online and create your own levels. Throughout the game, others can join you in a drop-in, drop-out option.
Is It Any Good?
What makes this game so amazing is that each of the three parts stands on its own merit and yet they seamlessly intertwine. If you aren't the creative type, just playing the Story will be fascinating -- it's like no other platformer you have ever played because the environment is so reactive. And when you're finished with the Story, your fun gaming experience can continue endlessly by exploring new levels created by others online. While EA is policing this content to keep it E-rated, this is a community where kids could run into offensive material before it's ferreted out, so parents might want to join in on the exploration of online content.
For kids (and adults!) who have always wanted to create their own video games, this game gives you the tools to do just that. And they are simple to use, presented with loads of hand-holding in the form of video tutorials. There are pre-made objects like circles and squares, but you can also design your own shapes. You can put them together in a variety of ways including string, glue, or bolts. If you're overwhelmed, the game offers templates to get you started. You can create something simple in 15-20 minutes or spend days working on something to give you bragging rights with friends.
Publisher’s Details
Developer: Sony Computer Entertainment
Released on: 10/20/2008, Price: $59.99, not online enabled
ESRB Rating: E for Comic Mischief, Mild Cartoon Violence
Released on: 10/20/2008, Price: $59.99, not online enabled
ESRB Rating: E for Comic Mischief, Mild Cartoon Violence
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Most Recent Reviews
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I rate this title on for age 5 and give it
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- Good role models
- Easy to play
One of the best PS3 exclusives.
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I rate this title on for age 2 and give it
This is suitable for a kid still attached to the umbilical cord.
Its so kiddish, Boring rubbish. This may have been better on a wii or something. Or in a dustbin. You run round with a gay sack person. creating stuff that takes AGES and bores in minutes. I'd rather play an M game thanks. I wouldn't have this if i found it at the side of the road now.
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I rate this title on for age 6 and give it
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- Safety isn't an issue
- Easy to play
Perfect and fun for people of all ages!!
It seemed like kind of a lame game at first when I looked at the cover, but once i started playing it I had a lot of fun. My sisters and I have had quite a few laughs playing this game.
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I rate this title on for age 6 and give it
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- Educational
- Good role models
- Safety isn't an issue
- Easy to play
good game
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I rate this title on for age 7 and give it
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- Easy to play
One Of My Favorites
This is one of my favorite games. It is really fun and entertaining! You can do many fun things. It doesn't have anything bad or inappropriate in it. It is a great game!
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| 67% | of parents say it's educational |
| 33% | of parents feel the site is safe |
| 33% | of parents say it gives kids positive messages |
| 33% | of parents say there are good role models |
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