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LittleBigPlanet

LittleBigPlanet is a 2009 puzzle platformer video game (with user-generated content) for the PlayStation Portable developed by SCE Cambridge Studio in conjunction with Media Molecule. It is a new entry in the…

81 17 November 2009

LittleBigPlanet is an adventure developed by SCE Cambridge Studio, released 17 November 2009 on PlayStation Portable.

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What LittleBigPlanet is

LittleBigPlanet is an adventure game developed by SCE Cambridge Studio and released in 2009. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation Portable only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The game's story is a sequel to the original PlayStation 3 version. Sackboy, the main character, decides to take a holiday walkabout around the world. The player starts in Down Under, a theme based on Australia, where they meet Bruce, a helpful character who gets the player started in the game. The player climbs to the Cave of Dreams where they meet the Mystic. It is revealed that there is to be a massive carnival in Brazil, and the player needs to go around the world to find the various creator curators and get them to go to the carnival. The player goes to The Orient in China and meets the Emperor, who has a dragon's egg in his treasure room. The player retrieves it and gives it to the…
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the LittleBigPlanet series

LittleBigPlanet is the third of 25 entries we hold in the LittleBigPlanet series. The next entry was LittleBigPlanet: Sackboy's Prehistoric Moves in 2010. Its critic score of 81 is 3 points below the series average of 84. The highest-rated entry is LittleBigPlanet at 96.

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How it was received

LittleBigPlanet holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 73% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 14 points above the year average.

What it launched against

LittleBigPlanet launched on 17 November 2009, within three weeks of Assassin's Creed II, Dragon Age: Origins, Left 4 Dead 2 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Assassin's Creed II, Dragon Age: Origins, Left 4 Dead 2, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

Cheats and codes

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Quick answers

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When did LittleBigPlanet come out?
LittleBigPlanet was released on 17 November 2009 for PlayStation Portable.

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