LittleBigPlanet 2

LittleBigPlanet 2 is a puzzle platformer video game centered around user-generated content, first announced on May 8th, 2010 in the June 2010 issue of gaming magazine Game Informer. The game was developed by…

94 18 January 2011

Adventure Platform Puzzle Action Comedy Kids Sandbox

LittleBigPlanet 2 is an adventure developed by Media Molecule, released 18 January 2011 on PlayStation 3. The main story takes about 8 hrs to finish.

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What LittleBigPlanet 2 is

LittleBigPlanet 2 is an adventure game developed by Media Molecule and released in 2011. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 3 only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Players continue Sackboy's journey after the events of the first game and the portable version are brought to an end. An inter-dimensional vacuum cleaner called the Negativitron appears over the skies of LittleBigPlanet and begins to suck up its inhabitants, including Sackboy. Larry Da Vinci (Robbie Stevens), the leader of a semi-secret semi-organised group known as "The Alliance", comes to Sackboy's rescue, saving him from the Negativitron (Jeremy Mayne). The organisation is dedicated to battling with the Negativitron and defeating it before it destroys Craftworld (Alternate name for game's environment). After Sackboy passes the tests in Larry's Hideout, he tells him that they must get to…

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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, kids and sandbox. It supports multiplayer for up to 4 players online, and includes co-op. Local play supports 4 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the LittleBigPlanet series

LittleBigPlanet 2 is the fifth of 25 entries we hold in the LittleBigPlanet series. The next entry was LittleBigPlanet 2: Collector's Edition in 2011. Its critic score of 94 is 10 points above the series average of 84. The highest-rated entry is LittleBigPlanet at 96.

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How it was received

LittleBigPlanet 2 holds a critic score of 94 out of 100. That places it above 98% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 26 points above the year average. Players rate it 88, 6 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 8 hrs.

What it launched against

LittleBigPlanet 2 launched on 18 January 2011, within three weeks of Dead Space 2, Magicka, Stacking and Tera. It reviewed better than all of them.

Released around the same time: Dead Space 2, Magicka, Stacking, Tera.

Cheats and codes

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