E3 2008: LittleBigPlanet Lands Best Of Show Honors From X-Play
LittleBigPlanetEveryone in the journalist realm has had the chance to sit back and reflect on E3 2008, and some are stepping up to say which game had the most impressive showing. Well, despite believing that Microsoft had the best conference, X-Play has awarded their Best Game of E3 to...
LittleBigPlanet. Not Resistance 2 and not Gears of War 2, but the promising little cooperative-based platformer from Media Molecule. Adam Sessler and Kevin Pereira were all kinds of excited about LBP, as were many other attendees at this year's E3, and it's a darn good choice. If you haven't had the opportunity yet, make sure to check out the Sony Conference Presentation video, as well as the Developer Walkthrough. Being able to fully customize the entire experience from the ground up - and that includes everything from the characters to the tiniest background detail - is something we've really never seen before, and it's an excellent concept. Factor in that this game should appeal to a very wide audience, plus that it should help to push something like PlayStation Home further into the limelight, and we'd have to applaud X-Play's decision.
Personally, just in what I saw from Resistance 2, I was impressed most by that game's E3 presence, but LBP is a solid choice, too. After everything that you guys have seen from those great videos we got for you, which game do you think tops the E3 2008 list?
Related Game(s): LittleBigPlanet
7/19/2008 Ben Dutka
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Deleted User
Saturday, July 19, 2008 @ 11:36:22 AM
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The lilbigplanet during the sony conference that helped with the sales was pure genius. But I won't be getting this game this fall...I'll go with mercs 2 instead.
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Qubex
Saturday, July 19, 2008 @ 11:51:41 AM
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Q!
"aLL RoAdS LeaD toO HoMe"
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infekt
Saturday, July 19, 2008 @ 12:09:35 PM
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Qubex
Saturday, July 19, 2008 @ 12:28:45 PM
Q!
"aLL RoaDs LeaD ToO HoMe"
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Fabi
Saturday, July 19, 2008 @ 12:35:29 PM
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RFOM2 didn't really impress me much. While the huge Leviathan was awesome, I thought the environment looked very lo-res, the same problem I saw in the first one when you're inside a building.
The Chicago level looked better, but it's not like I saw something I had never seen before.
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Saturday, July 19, 2008 @ 12:38:49 PM
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orangpelupa
Saturday, July 19, 2008 @ 7:46:49 PM
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LBP is unique
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Frenchy17
Saturday, July 19, 2008 @ 7:48:34 PM
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Ben Dutka PSXE [Administrator]
Saturday, July 19, 2008 @ 8:07:01 PM
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And no Frenchy, it's not just you guys. :)
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orangpelupa
Saturday, July 19, 2008 @ 8:47:43 PM
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your avatar, its from FF Tactics?
what is his name?
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Ben Dutka PSXE [Administrator]
Saturday, July 19, 2008 @ 10:38:38 PM
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And that's the main character, Ramza.
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Nightshade386
Sunday, July 20, 2008 @ 1:00:07 PM
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I loved the Too Human demo on XBLM as well and can't wait to play that. Little Big Planet just doesn't seem to appeal to me.
But the game I'm most looking forward to playing is Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. It makes my inner geek very giddy.
As for the comment that G4 seems to favor Microsoft, I'd like to remind you that they said Sony won E3 last year. But then the games came out. Lair and Haze were both really disapointing and Heavenly Sword was really short. Uncharted was solid. They did really like MGS4 though. But the 360 had Mass Effect, Bioshock and Halo 3, all of which were legitimate GotY contenders.
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Ben Dutka PSXE [Administrator]
Sunday, July 20, 2008 @ 9:47:56 PM
G4's analysis of such things just seems to side more with Microsoft, as I don't think the preceding games got their just due from them. However, they most CERTAINLY did from most online and print publications. I think that's the reason many people think G4 is a little biased.
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Nightshade386
Sunday, July 20, 2008 @ 10:02:53 PM
Turnbased JRPG's on the other hand, G4 tends to dismiss rather unfairly in my opinion, regardless of the platform. I thought Lost Odyssey was a really good game and I think they only gave it an average score basically because the gameplay was traditional JRPG.
And Mass Effect was absolutely amazing in my opinion, where as I played Uncharted at a friend's house and thought it was decent but not great. So clearly we have vastly different tastes in games. I'm also a big sci-fi and RPG geek, so Mass Effect was admittedly right in my wheelhouse.
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aaronisbla
Sunday, July 20, 2008 @ 2:46:55 PM
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I guess you can add Fallot3 to the list, but its coming for the pc and the ps3 last i checked, although MS paid for exclusive content, again
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Jeffrey
Monday, July 21, 2008 @ 12:44:42 PM
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pavlovic
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Saturday, July 19, 2008 @ 11:10:30 AM