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What is LittleBigPlanet?

If you were to stand on LittleBigPlanet and try to imagine a more astounding, fantastic, and creative place, full of enthralling adventure, uncanny characters, and brilliant things to do... you couldn’t. All imagination is here, and what you do with it all is entirely up to you.

Build new levels and expand the environment, collect the many and varied tools and objects to make your mark on this world, or just simply enjoy the people and puzzles they’ve set.

LittleBigPlanet is the manifested embodiment of your perfect dream world...

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Sackboy

On the LittleBigPlanet you’re a little Sack Person like this one here, he’s a cute one isn’t he? Sackboy (or girl) is the fun little character that will share your adventures on LittleBigPlanet. One of the things that makes Sackboy so special is that he can be customised to look as stylish and sexy as you’d like him to look, or just plain weird. You’ll collect all kinds of clothing and things to dress him up with as you explore the world, and you can buy extra special ones from the PSN store too. Take a look at some of the costumes, and learn more about Sackboy.

Play

Exploring LittleBigPlanet will take you through a whole host of locations, whether you're playing on the PlayStation™3 or the PlayStation®Portable.

On the PlayStation®3 you’ll go from the safety of the King’s Gardens, through the Sahara and into the Arctic tundra. On the PSP™, join Sackboy as he takes a holiday, and travels all around the world collecting Creator Curators to take place in a Creator Carnival in Brazil.

Each location is packed with unique levels and challenges, using realistic physics and lots of jumpy-grabby action to deliver plenty of surprises and a great deal of fun. There are items to collect - clothes for Sackboy, stickers, and creative tools, some in plain sight, some hidden, and some given as rewards for being a super skilled player.

On the PS3™ LittleBigPlanet is multiplayer - up to four players can Play or Create together, at home or over the internet, co-operative or competitive!

When you’ve completed the story mode, you can head out into the big wide world, and play some of the levels made by other players - there are over a million of them, so you won’t ever run out!

Read more about playing on either PSP™ or PS3™.

Story

PlayStation®3

Upon arrival, the first place that your Sackboy will find himself in is known as the King’s Gardens. This idyllic playground is the perfect area to learn the tricks and skills required to successfully explore the colourful landscapes of LittleBigPlanet.

You’ll soon learn that the King is one of the fabled Curators responsible for all of the creations within LittleBigPlanet. Once Sackboy has proved his worth in the King’s realm, he’ll be sent off to other lands to learn the skills of other Curators.

PlayStation®Portable

LittleBigPlanet is coming to PSP™ - Allowing you to Play, Create and Share - Everywhere!

Sackboy takes a vacation from his hard life of swinging, jumping and gadding, and travels around the world to gather together Creator Curators to take place in the Carnival! On this new handheld adventure, Sackboy will be getting lost in the Australian outback, helping to build a theme park in the desert, and starring in a series of movies in the glittering lights of Tinsel Town - But will he make it to the Carnival on time when he's having so much fun?

Find out more about LittleBigPlanet PSP™

Create

Playing is only the half of it… With LittleBigPlanet you get a fantastic adventure AND the tools which we used to make it - all wrapped up neatly in a simple intuitive thing we like to call Popit.

In Create mode you can use Popit to browse through all the tools, stickers and decorations collected from the Story mode, to build your own levels, toys or gadgets. Place obstacles, traps or enemies all from your own devious imagination - you can build anything you’ve seen in the Story mode, or simply draw inspiration from it, and then create something even more complicated and grandiose! You can be a visionary.

Find out more about creating in LittleBigPlanet.

Once your masterpiece is completed, you might wish to publish it to the world, where on PlayStation®3 and PSP™ combined, there are literally hundreds of thousands of levels made by other creator curators can be found and played. Once published, people will play your level and tell you just how great you are at creating levels - the rating, comments and search work just like other things on the internets, like your favorite social network or website, so you'll feel right at home.

Find out more about sharing and playing community levels.