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All details about Little Big Planet 2 from Edge summed up.

Syroc — Sun, 09 May 2010 13:29:36 +0000

By now you've probably seen the information about Little Big Planet 2 that were revealed in Game Informer and looked longingly at the Little Big Planet scans and screenshots, but if you still don't have enough here is what Edge had to say about the game.
Unlike News of the World preview says that the new Little Big Planet 2 game is scheduled for release this Winter. Lets hope so!

Changes in Little Big Planet 2:

Huge visual upgrade

Colour filters for certain areas, e.g. x-ray

Instead of sliders in lighting and sound menus, they have percentages

Cutscene cameras are now white... (Seen in a screenshot)

You can place decorations and stickers on your planet

New features in Little Big Planet 2:

Bounce Pads

New hazard: Laser

You can make Sackbots harmful (electrify, fire etc.)

You can grapple Sackbots

It is possible to record something and apply it to a sackbot

If you program a sackbot to follow you, and then jump into a vehicle, the sackbot will catch up and jump in with you.

You can use direct control seats with Sackbots

Direct control does control momentum, so no unwanted shooting up into the air

You can program sackbots to hang off things

Level Linking 'Badges'
"Place the new level-linking 'badge' in your level and you can seamlessly transport players to another. Useful for building multi-level games as well as for collector types to create level hubs for great levels that they've found"

Photos on lbp.me will be the ones posted on the level itself

Usernames on lbp.me will be PSN names

There will be a facebook-style 'stream' (possibly lbp.me) which will show highscores, hearted levels etc for each player

New tools in Little Big Planet 2:

Grappling Hook
"A powerup in the mould of LBP's MGS DLC, the grappling hook is thrown out with R1 and attaches to any grabbable [so sponge etc] surface until you let go in the same way a grab would usually work. You can reel it in and out by pressing up and down on the stick, and also swing, your tether flexing with a satisfying 'boing'."

Microchips: Once you place them, it projects a space in which you can build logic etc. When you are done it minimizes the logic and store it inside one little microchip

New torch/flashlight lighting object (Just looks like one, sackboy cannot actually hold it)

Extra round:

So far it is 4GB extra content (will get bigger). Meaning it is too big for a patch.

If they were to make it as DLC it would be VERY expensive DLC.

Thanks for the summary, plasmavore.

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Little Big Planet 2 – LBP 2 scans are here! [update]

Syroc — Sat, 08 May 2010 21:09:12 +0000

Update: There is a short preview of Little Big Planet 2 on News of the World. See the screenshots below.
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Original Story

Here are some scans from the upcoming Game Informer issue that reveals information about LBP 2. Remember there will be more information on Monday.

The grabbling hook

Possibly Sackbots

More Sackbots

Dancing Sackbot!

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Interesting interview with MM.

Syroc — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:10:39 +0000

The folks from criticalgamer.co.uk met MM at the Eurogamer Expo last week and had a wee chat with them about LittleBigPlant. You can find the interview if you follow the links: Part 1, Part 2
If you are short on time we give you a little summary of the most interesting bits here, but the interview is well wort reading.

On DLC:

We have a lot of stuff coming out, especially next year. We can’t really talk about specifics for a lot of it at the moment, because a lot of it hasn’t been announced.

There definitely will be more interactive music. Whether that’s standalone in a music only pack… I don’t know yet. We’ll see how the first music pack does first. We’d love to do that; as with everything we do we’ll listen to the community, and see how it goes.

On level packs:

“We may be level designers, but most of our time is actually spent testing other features that come into the game. These things only ever get announced when they’re nearly complete; most of our time is spent prototyping these things. Our studio is quite small, about thirty five people; we simply don’t have a distinction between designers and level designers. So most of our time isn’t spent making levels, which is a bit of a shame

On the fifty layer glitch:

Well, anything you find like that… with a million people, I guess it’s always going to happen. Unless it’s damaging to the game, we’re going to leave it. It’s part of the creative process. The fifty layer bug doesn’t sit very well with me on a personal level, because it can make levels very hard to read, as in where you can go and what you can do. Some people have done it very well and made it very clearly defined.

On the possibility of a sequel:

I think what you’ve seen so far from LittleBigPlanet, that’s the way it’s going to continue. We’re evolving the community, listening to them, carrying them with us. That’s something you’re going to see a lot more of.
We’d never fragment the community. We’d never want to do that. That’d be the most counterproductive thing you could do I think.

There is much more if you follow the links at the top.

Thanks, Criticalgamer