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- Platform: PlayStation 3
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Join Sackboy and Sackgirl on the starting grid for a new kart racing adventure.
- Play: Race through an ever-changing world of content in story, battle, split screen or online multiplayer racing modes.
- Create: Fire up your imagination to build your own tracks, customise your karts or even design unique power-ups and weapons.
- Share: Access millions of tracks created by the LittleBigPlanet community for a totally new experience every time you race.
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LittleBigPlanet Karting takes the ‘Play, Create, Share' ethos of LittleBigPlanet and brings it to a fast-paced karting game set within an endlessly imaginative world.
Join Sackboy and Sackgirl as they make the leap to 3D in a karting adventure to save the Craftworld universe, rendered as beautifully as ever, only now with three dimensions of fun.
Vibrant game worlds will play host to classic karting action as well as a host of other game modes including ultra-competitive arena battles, split screen mode or online via PlayStation Network, adventurous objective-based missions and even mini-games providing fun for fans and newcomers, young or old.
This would not be LittleBigPlanet without a world of customisation, and LittleBigPlanet Karting comes loaded with a range of tools - some familiar and some new - to create levels as unique and varied as the six million user-generated levels that the franchise has already been used to generate.
Creativity is not just limited to designing tracks; players can also make their own game rules that leave the constraints of a traditional karting game back in the starting grid. Combined with the all-new 3D environments, plus the ability to customise Sackboy, karts, and more.
As ever, the emphasis is as much on sharing as on creation. All user-generated content will be sharable around the world through PlayStation Network, providing access to what promises to be millions of LittleBigPlanet Karting experiences created by the community.
- Play: Race through an ever-changing world of content in story, battle, split screen or online multiplayer racing modes.
- Create: Fire up your imagination to build your own tracks, customise your karts or even design unique power-ups and weapons.
- Share: Access what promises
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34 of 37 people found the following review helpful
By Teggfd
Fun:
5.0 out of 5 stars
This is a faithful entry in the LittleBigPlanet (lbp) series. Its more multi player focused compared to the previous LBP games simply because platforming is more single player friendly. Yet the single player mode is lots of fun given that its a kart racer. There is also a variety of story mode game types alongside karting to keep you interested. RC races (think micro machines) to battle modes and F1 pit stop style races are included. The focus is playing with others and the game has a feature to keep your party connected and flowing through a vote system when you finish a race. This does the job well and the host can always manually change tracks if necessary. Voice chat works great and text messaging is also possible in the traditional lbp pop up way.
Lots of options and a very powerful create mode that is fully 3D from the ground up. It is possible to create certain game types not possible in LBP 2. A good example being you can make a natural starfox 64 style game in 3D or a Jungle Strike with 2d view. There are water/boat racing tracks made by the community. Tower defense and other game types can be made. Weapons can be customised and creators can share weapons through levels. There is a mario kart weapon packs making the rounds. The shells are larger and the question mark power ups are not transparent but its surprisingly close.
Karts are fully customisable. You can change suspension to a floating/flying kart to a tank kart. The game shines here. Costumes are the same as previous LBP games. You will be able to use the same costumes unlocked in the other games soon after a patch.
The karting is closest to Mario Kart and comparisons were already inevitable. The power ups are very similar(and customisable) as are the kart handling aspects unlike Modnation Racers.... Read more ›
Lots of options and a very powerful create mode that is fully 3D from the ground up. It is possible to create certain game types not possible in LBP 2. A good example being you can make a natural starfox 64 style game in 3D or a Jungle Strike with 2d view. There are water/boat racing tracks made by the community. Tower defense and other game types can be made. Weapons can be customised and creators can share weapons through levels. There is a mario kart weapon packs making the rounds. The shells are larger and the question mark power ups are not transparent but its surprisingly close.
Karts are fully customisable. You can change suspension to a floating/flying kart to a tank kart. The game shines here. Costumes are the same as previous LBP games. You will be able to use the same costumes unlocked in the other games soon after a patch.
The karting is closest to Mario Kart and comparisons were already inevitable. The power ups are very similar(and customisable) as are the kart handling aspects unlike Modnation Racers.... Read more ›
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Gone down well as a Xmas pressy, As usual with LBP very interesting and engaging, they particularly like the fact you can build your own tracks. However, niggling problem - its Move compatible, but not something we bought this for, If you have a move controller or Eye switched on, it looks for the move steering wheel and wont progress. You have to quit, switch off the controllers and unplug the eye. Took us a while to work this out so be aware. Otherwise would have been 5 stars
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By S. Turnbull
Fun:
5.0 out of 5 stars
OK so I love Mario Kart on Wii, it is one of the best kart games ever. I tried Sonic All stars transformed and was pretty disappointed, mainly by the characters that have zero personality, and the game trying to be more than it is. This game however is a simple kart racing game with battle modes as well. I was never really a fan of the battle arenas on Mario Kart and it's a pretty similar story here although some of them can be quite good fun and possibly not as frustrating as Mario Kart. The racing including the online racing is fun and kept simple, I played a number of racers in a row online and didn't really noticed any slowdown or lag and they were as much fun to play online as Mario Kart is on the Wii.
I also have F1 racing stars which I also like although the tracks are more interesting on LBP karting. From the recent crop of kart racers I'd rank them as follows.
1. LBP Karting
2. F1 Racing Stars
3. Sonic all Stars transformed
If you loved Mario Kart on Wii either LBP karting or F1 Racing stars will be a fun game for you, sonic is more on rails you can't for example go off track even if there are no barriers. Sonic is also arguably a more difficult game and maybe more suited to people with more patience than me. Sonic also suffers slowdown. I prefer to simply pick up a game a play without having to try over and over again on the same track to win or get within the top 3.
I also have F1 racing stars which I also like although the tracks are more interesting on LBP karting. From the recent crop of kart racers I'd rank them as follows.
1. LBP Karting
2. F1 Racing Stars
3. Sonic all Stars transformed
If you loved Mario Kart on Wii either LBP karting or F1 Racing stars will be a fun game for you, sonic is more on rails you can't for example go off track even if there are no barriers. Sonic is also arguably a more difficult game and maybe more suited to people with more patience than me. Sonic also suffers slowdown. I prefer to simply pick up a game a play without having to try over and over again on the same track to win or get within the top 3.
14 of 18 people found the following review helpful
By SG 1000
Fun:
3.0 out of 5 stars
The gameplay is slow, the graphics are correct but i expected more. There is a creation mode and its good but the probleme : the races are boring so it's not very appreciable in race. a little disappointed
and be aware that the title was not developed by Media Molecule, who made both Little Big Planet, but "United Front",not very well known ....
So yes, it looks like Little Big Planet, we find the music, the colors, the style, the look, but the build quality is not at the rendez vous: the game is not fluid at all and the racing sensations are totally absent.
if you're a fan of the serie, it's ok, but if you want a game of fun and fluid karting, go your way!
and be aware that the title was not developed by Media Molecule, who made both Little Big Planet, but "United Front",not very well known ....
So yes, it looks like Little Big Planet, we find the music, the colors, the style, the look, but the build quality is not at the rendez vous: the game is not fluid at all and the racing sensations are totally absent.
if you're a fan of the serie, it's ok, but if you want a game of fun and fluid karting, go your way!
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By Teknomancer
Fun:
3.0 out of 5 stars
First off, I'm a big fan of LittleBigPlanet. This game does justice to LittleBigPlanet fully. It is extremely customizable, very good content creation tools and highly polished artwork and animation. Almost anything the original developers did in this game, you can potentially do as well. The tools are included.
Where it falls short is the actual racing. The game physics is bizarre, if you get knocked from behind you just come to an abrupt stop. The AI will always screw you over with multiple hits and always finds you when you don't have an item to defend yourself. So instead of a party karting game where you want to knock about and race freely, the odd physics and poorly balanced weapons and items makes this one of the worst karting experiences on the PS3. Even when you win, you do not feel you won because you raced well. You feel you won because you were lucky.... And this is my biggest problem with this game in that it's just no fun (especially against AI).
The multiplayer can tend to be better when there are other humans playing and without any bots. Even then there are issues with weapon balances.
It is sad, I really tried to love this game but the actual karting is a huge let down. Absolutely no complaints on any other part of this game, but I think they went too much for customization and trying to sell the game on the name of LittleBigPlanet than make the actual karting fun.
If you are looking for a fun game with countless hours of replay value and customizations, creating levels and the whole LBP experience get it by all means.
If you are looking for a solid karting game with fast racing, fun drifting and proper kart physics... skip this by all means.
Where it falls short is the actual racing. The game physics is bizarre, if you get knocked from behind you just come to an abrupt stop. The AI will always screw you over with multiple hits and always finds you when you don't have an item to defend yourself. So instead of a party karting game where you want to knock about and race freely, the odd physics and poorly balanced weapons and items makes this one of the worst karting experiences on the PS3. Even when you win, you do not feel you won because you raced well. You feel you won because you were lucky.... And this is my biggest problem with this game in that it's just no fun (especially against AI).
The multiplayer can tend to be better when there are other humans playing and without any bots. Even then there are issues with weapon balances.
It is sad, I really tried to love this game but the actual karting is a huge let down. Absolutely no complaints on any other part of this game, but I think they went too much for customization and trying to sell the game on the name of LittleBigPlanet than make the actual karting fun.
If you are looking for a fun game with countless hours of replay value and customizations, creating levels and the whole LBP experience get it by all means.
If you are looking for a solid karting game with fast racing, fun drifting and proper kart physics... skip this by all means.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent
My daughter love's this game as she does with all the others in the series she puts it on after her home work for a hour and really enjoys her time on it
Published 6 days ago by Mr. G. King
5.0 out of 5 stars
Lovely game for young kids
My youngest is really enjoying this game. Colourful, simple and fun. He's loving working his way through all the little big planet stuff. Read more
Published 14 days ago by Hecate
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good Fun
Good gaming experience. Had problems initially trying to play online with friends but after a few attempts wasn't a problem. Good colour and graphics.
Published 17 days ago by jsmillie
3.0 out of 5 stars
LittleBigPlanet Karting (PS3)
The story part of this game is over quite quickly. There are not really any significant variations between the tracks, certainly none that stand out for me. Read more
Published 28 days ago by Mr S. Anthony
1.0 out of 5 stars
I should've bought Sly 4 instead.
Man, IGN wasn't joking around when they gave this game 4.5/10, this game really does suck, the controls are broken, everything in this game are broken, this game is not worth your... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Fahd Zarooni
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Mario Kart for PS3
Finally a Kart game that is as entertaining as Nintendo's Mario Kart is! Really fun when played with with friends. Quite long loading times though.
Published 2 months ago by Paul
5.0 out of 5 stars
First Class Service
I received the item very quickly. I would recommend this company to family and friends.
The item was just what I wanted.
The item was just what I wanted.
Published 2 months ago by Barbara Binns
5.0 out of 5 stars
nice
It was the right price and it arrived on the right day. Great fun game to play with the kids
Published 2 months ago by Ian Tostevin
5.0 out of 5 stars
amazing
my 6yr old is a LBP fan and spends hours developing levels. this is now one of her favourite games as she loves designing the tracks and then racing around them with her friends.
Published 3 months ago by Mrs. T. L. Noble
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great game
Bought this for my 10 and 8 year olds who loved it. They love lbp games and this is a great addition to the franchise. Would recommend.
Published 3 months ago by Rob
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