On the 23rd December we are in for a treat for this is when the Metal Gear Solid level and costume packs arrive. Priced at $1.99 each, the four costumes can also be bought as a pack for $5.99. For that you will get Meryl Silverburgh, Screaming Mantis & Raiden in addition to Solid Snake. As if that wasn`t enough you budding constructors will be able to buy the Metal Gear Solid Premium Level Pack for $5.99 which fills your popit with oodles of MGS-themed goodies such as materials, objects, stickers and heaps more such as….
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A 5th Sackboy costume…the Gurlokovich Soldier
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72 New Stickers
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12 New Materials
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10 New Decorations
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18 New objects
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New background music track
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3 new interactive music tracks
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New Metal Gear Solid themed ‘sound object’
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New Plasma Ball ‘danger element’
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New Laser Sight ‘gadget’
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New functioning Searchlight lamp
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12 new Trophies to unlock
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and best of all…..THE PAINTINATOR and Paint Switch
With the THE PAINTINATOR you’ll be able to splatter anything that comes between you and the end of any level. Shoot paintballs with the R1 button and using the right stick to aim. Paintballs will hit very weak slap. Shoot ‘Brains’ from a safe distances now and progress thru levels much easier. The Paint Switch, so you can attach it to any object and set it to destruct after being splattered with enough paint.
This will really open up new opportunities for level Creators, but don`t worry if you don`t buy the pack: you don`t have to own it in order to play MGS Story levels! Simply join a host who does have the pack and play together online! Levels created with the MGS pack with be open to everybody to play, regardless of whether you have bought it or not! How awesome is that?
This is truly a remarkably exciting glimpse of what the future of Little Big Planet holds
The EU PlayStation store has just been updated. The remaining parts of the free Sackboy Santa costume – the beard and hat – are now available for download, as is the Festive Pack containing the Giftboy and Christmas tree costumes, festive stickers, wrapping paper material, a sleigh, Xmas light and other assorted Christmas themed objects and decorations. The Festive Pack costs £2.39
Be aware that prior to playing LittleBigPlanet you will be prompted to download the 1.06 25Mb update
Some exciting news has surfaced today regarding the much touted MGS costume: there isn’t one…there are four! Previously only the `Old Solid Snake` costume as seen here had been shown – but in the following video interview, taken at the recent Spike VGA awards show where Media Molecule won Studio of the Year and LBP won best PS3 game of the year, Alex Evans claimed our minds will be blown by forthcoming level packs, even going as far as to say we will completely rethink the way we look at Little Big Planet as they introduce new gameplay features.
As if to add weight to his claim the PlayStation Asia site is today carrying pictures of the Metal Gear Solid 4 level pack, with costumes for Solid Snake, Screaming Mantis, Raiden and Meryl. There are no specifics on what the actual level pack contains, as yet.
According to various other sites this is dated for release 18th December and, if usual convention follows, we should hopefully be able to get our grubby hands on it too. The PlayStation site itself however only provides a non-committal coming soon message
I`m no hero….never was
UPDATE: our friends over at LittleBigPlanetoid have some higher resolution pictures of the costumes here
Sony have announced full details of the festive pack we revealed last week – and what a pack! For your money you will get the two costumes we showed you - the Xmas Tree and the Giftwrapped costume plus:
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One new Create Material = Wrapping Paper (cardboard w/ giftwrap texture).
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Two new Objects = A Festive Sleigh and holiday themed light.
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Six new Decorations = A Festive Bauble, Bell, Wrapping Bow, Candy Cane, Card and Stocking.
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A ton of new Stickers = Christmas themed of course, including a Red Nosed Reindeer, Elves, Turkey images and many more.
This pack will only be available from this Thursday 18th Dec up until Jan 8th 2009. Don`t forget we should also receive the rest of the free Santa costume, the hat and beard.
Ho ho ho!
After yesterday`s sneak peak at next week`s Xmas Costumes, PlayStation Asia has confirmed that the Festive Goodies Pack will be arriving on the 16th in their PlayStation Store. This is what they have to say about it:
Here comes the Christmas goodies pack for LittleBigPlanet™! Buy it and you can get Christmas tree and present costumes, special stickers, decorations and fancy objects!
The Japanese Little Big Planet site is showing not only the Santa costume we get this week and next, but also a further 2 Christmas related costumes. The gift wrapped Sackboy in the bottom right looks like it has a price tag but we are unsure about the Xmas tree, which carries the date of 18th December
Ho! Ho! Ho!
Unfortunately we don`t speak Japanese, so the only legible words we could find on this post found on the Little Big Planet section of the Japanese PlayStation site were `Mixlemoned` and `PlayStation Store` with no obvious date given.
UPDATE: this is the `Kabuki Actor` costume and is a free download
The EU PlayStation Store has recently been updated with this week`s collection of goodies.
We too get the Thanksgiving themed `Turkey Head` costume for free and the Chimera costume, costing £1.59 in the UK and €1.99 in the rest of Europe
With the THE PAINTINATOR you’ll be able to splatter anything that comes between you and the end of any level. Shoot paintballs with the R1 button and using the right stick to aim. Paintballs will hit very weak slap. Shoot ‘Brains’ from a safe distances now and progress thru levels much easier. The Paint Switch, so you can attach it to any object and set it to destruct after being splattered with enough paint. 
