LittleBigPlanet 2: Move Pack

Review

Common Sense Media says

Fun motion controls improve an already great creative game.
greenON: Content is age-appropriate for kids this age.
yellowPAUSE: Know your child; some content
may not be right for some kids.
redOFF: Not age-appropriate for kids this age.
not for kidsNOT FOR KIDS: Not appropriate for kids any age.

Find out more

Quality
 
Sometimes media can be age appropriate but a real waste of time. Our star rating assesses the media's overall quality.

Find out more

Parents say

Not yet rated

Kids say

Not yet rated

What parents need to know

Parents need to know that LittleBigPlanet 2: Move Pack is a downloadable content package. It requires both a copy of LittleBigPlanet 2 and at least one PlayStation Move motion controller. Players do not attack enemies but instead simply attempt to navigate tricky environments. However, it does contain mild violence, including scenes in which the player’s cloth character is burned by fire and disappears in a puff of smoke. Like the game it is designed to augment, this add-on promotes and fosters creativity by providing new materials, music, costumes, and abilities for players to incorporate in games that they design themselves. Parents should note that LittleBigPlanet has a sprawling, moderated online community that is, by and large, pleasant to partake in. User-generated levels with offensive content pop up occasionally, but the community reports them and the game’s makers remove them as quickly as they can. Note that online play supports unmoderated voice and text communication, a feature that Common Sense Media does not recommend for pre-teens.

  • Positive messages4
    This game promotes and fosters player creativity in its level creator mode. The brief story sees the player’s sackboy or sackgirl journeying to save a group of kidnapped sackbots from a nasty “Cakeling,” with a moral that suggests tenacity will always triumph over evil.
  • Positive role models1
    The player’s sack person does not speak. However, through the player’s actions it becomes clear that he or she is clearly a nice little cloth creature intent on doing good and helping friends.  
  • Ease of play4
    The story levels, all of which require the PlayStation Move motion controller, are very easy and designed more to teach players how to play the game with a Move controller than to challenge. The movement-based controls are instantly intuitive and highly responsive. The mini-games are more challenging, but still quick and easy to understand.
  • Violence & scariness1
    Players’ sackboys and sackgirls can get burned by fire, scorched by acid rain, and fall off cliffs. A mini-game sees non-player sackbots getting zapped by white electricity beams.
  • Language0
    Not applicable.
  • Consumerism0
    Not applicable.
  • Privacy & safety1
    Serious safety concerns: When playing other levels created by users, LittleBigPlanet has a sprawling, moderated online community that is, by and large, pleasant to partake in. User-generated levels with offensive content pop up occasionally, but the community reports them and the game’s makers remove them as quickly as they can. The game also supports online play with unmoderated voice and text communication, a feature that could lead to hearing cuss words and other unwanted communication.
CloseExpand to see more details

What's it about?

The largest of dozens of downloadable content packs available for LittleBigPlanet 2, LITTLEBIGPLANET 2: MOVE PACK offers players five new story levels that tell the tale of an evil creature known as the Cakeling. Angered at her existence as a thing perpetually on the verge of being eaten, she begins kidnapping peaceful sackbots and eventually attempts to turn them into a cake to show them what it’s like to be a foodstuff. Players will unlock a septet of mini-games as the story progresses, and earn scores of new stickers, materials, musical tracks, and abilities that they can put to use in the creator module when designing their own game levels. Chief among these is the Brain Crane, a headband that sack people can don to allow them to telepathically move in-game objects. It requires that players employ a PlayStation Move controller, which is used to move, slide, spin, and select objects on screen in all of the Move Pack’s new levels and mini-games.

Is it any good?

 

British developer Media Molecule has come up with several brilliant ways to seamlessly incorporate PlayStation Move functionality within its popular LittleBigPlanet universe. The new story levels essentially act as a primer to teach players how the Move controller can be used to interact with game objects. You will slide walls up and down, ratchet levers back and forth, carry objects with you to use as shields against harsh elements, and put others in place to use as platforms to cross dangerous hazards. The mini-games make even more inventive use of the Move peripheral. One has players tilting and turning the controller to manipulate a ball-rolling maze, another lets players use the Move’s pointing function to select squares in an addictive little block puzzle game, and yet another involves moving energy nodes to block incoming balls in tower defense style.

One can easily work through all of the new content in a single night, but the pack’s $10 price tag is justified by the new design possibilities it enables within the game’s popular level editor. There are already thousands of user-generated levels designed explicitly for the Move controller. If you’re a LittleBigPlanet fan and own a PlayStation Move controller, this content pack is a must.    

Sign Up Message
Sign up for our weekly newsletter
Each week we send a customized newsletter to our parent and teen subscribers. Parents can customize their settings to receive recommendations and parent tips based on their kids’ ages. Teens receive a version just for them with the latest reviews and top picks for movies, video games, apps, music, books, and more.
Please enter an email address.
Please check your email address for possible typos.
Sorry, you must be 13 or older to subscribe to our weekly newsletter.
Sign me up!

What families can talk about

  • Families can talk about creativity in games. How does creating your own game differ from, say, creating a drawing, or a musical composition? Do you feel pleased and satisfied after spending time to create a game? How might you apply what you learn designing game levels to the real world?

  • Families can also discuss online safety. What would you do if you found a user-generated level that you believed to be offensive? What would you do if you encountered someone online who was mean to you, or threatened you?

This review was written by Chad Sapieha

There aren't any reviews yet. Be the first to review this title below.
This review was written by Chad Sapieha
Platforms:PlayStation 3
Available online?Not available online
Genre:Action/Adventure
Developer:Sony Computer Entertainment
Release date:September 14, 2011
Price:$9.99
ESRB rating:E for Comic Mischief, Mild Cartoon Violence
This review was written by Chad Sapieha

Contact us to give us more feedback on our learning ratings.

 

Review It

Share your review with others

Hang on! You need to be a member to post your review.
A safe community is important to us. Please observe our guidelines.

Screenshots

  • 1 of 3
  • 2 of 3
  • 3 of 3

Tell us what you think about our new Learning Ratings. We value your feedback.

About our rating system
ON: Content is age-appropriate for kids this age.
PAUSE: Know your child; some content may not be right for some kids.
OFF: Not age-appropriate for kids this age.
Learning ratings
BEST: Really engaging, great learning approach.
GOOD: Pretty engaging, good learning approach.
FAIR: Somewhat engaging, OK learning approach.
NOT FOR LEARNING: Not recommended for learning.
Our child development rating guidelines

Great alternatives handpicked by our editors

More PlayStation Move games
For kids who love being creative
Browse more games
 

vote now

Will you play LittleBigPlanet 2: Move Pack ?

Game on
Press pause
Game over

Already played it? What do you think?

I recommend it
It's a pass
 
More from Common Sense Media
Age-appropriate reviews
Top advice and articles

Been There? Tell us about it