Sometimes scary to think how much it is said, written and filmed about the nature of sleep. Dreams, like life itself is surprisingly multi-faceted: they are questionable interpretations, boring to explore, swirled around them all sorts of literary and kinosyuzhety - positive and not very much.
Easier, of course, Screw something strange and terrible. For example, the famous writer Neil Gaiman reveals chilling truth in the story of a tiny "sweeping dreams": it turns out, all our fantasies swept out and burned a special cleaner. The main character refuses to attend dreams have managed somehow to touch (it is sufficient to show "phi" about his tattoos or body ache for the wrong sports team) - and the offenders to pay dearly for their indiscretions: their minds are more and more cluttered fictional stuff and they lose their sanity. "Never sleep, children."
 | |  | Earflaps - the then Siberia. | | Family gotichnenkih Nutcracker. |
So, from Media Molecule is the same described in a strictly opposite way - solid peace, pizza, chewing gum. What comes into your head while you sleep, do not need any podmetaly. It is itself soars aloft, and somewhere far, far away, going up into a ball, which becomes the whole world, rich and unusual. This is - a huge playground for the little sewn and knitted creatures, and sekboev sekgerl. The atmosphere of calm and friendliness here is maintained even voice, slowly instruct beginners magic country, which is unparalleled in many guises. Voice as if it belongs to Stephen Fry * - not a word to the honored actor, writer and TV, personified pride of modern Britain. His gentle voice is also heard in the first two games of the Harry Potter films and is still cushy Fable II, but we will not turn our pen to write what you know he is in these works.
 | Game 3.0 |
For the first time the term in the title frame, came during last year's GDC; very notion, of course, has long been in everyone's minds, but accepted that it has taken shape through the efforts of Sony. Approaches to thinking about the future of video game mainstream, Phil Harrison has identified Game 1.0 as a type of fully self-contained games (most of the existing works to date), and Game 2.0 - as a starting point for online gaming. Accordingly, Game 3.0 - is gaining popularity the type of video game users are assigned to a qualitatively new role: he is free to create some content and share it with the gaming community. According to Harrison and a significant proportion of analysts just such a concept will follow the majority of high-profile projects coming years. Perhaps, at the time of sale the most notable specimens Game 3.0 - and this is Spore Will Wright, Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts studios Rare and under review LittleBigPlanet - do not justify the predictions of marketing departments of publishers, but they cause the greatest impact in the media and represent the global trends development of gaming.
When Uncle Steven honestly do its duty to warn you about all the dangers and hardships that still have a place on this wonderful planet, your sekboy falls in Tudor gardens. If you are here you had the scenery from the television series "The Tudors", safely exhale. From this spectacle, but rather, it appears that during the loading level is not what usually happens in such a case. Reasonably believe that it is not read data, and a group of invisible children hastily cut out of cardboard castles and paint them with black markers, hangs on a string round pieces of sponge, with plainly lays out the rag blocks, glues and paints the touching figure of the king - just like in school lessons " iso and labor. Have not been forgotten and gifts sekboyu - the first set of clothes: pants, jacket and hat straight out of the Elizabethan era; room for experimentation with the image while not particularly extensive, but lets get oneself up by Shakespeare and Marlowe (as such suit is not a shame, and leave all further adventures ).
From the cardboard-rag England, which is more or less calmly, sekboy transferred directly into artificial African savannah - and then the player can only keep pace with even more to figure out how the rapidly changing its view of a platform. In the savannas of chaos: crocodiles, buffaloes and Mercato (they Selous mongoose), crazy! Recent provide ultraboundary degree absurd creative, because thanks to them sekboy sharply and high jumping - this built one of the mini-games for arguing that without a problem bypasses Lumines and surrenders without a fight, except that near pupyrchatoy film. The bottom line is this: sekboy jumps on square head tortured animals on which the moving bubbles (they must be eagerly devour, they wind the scorer), flaming rocks (fabric, of course, not very favorably interacts with the fire) and the strange round creatures with wild eyes and flaming pebble instead of a language. No kidding: addiction - like Wii Sports in January and February last year.
 | |  | The entire wall can easily fill a suffix LOLZ. | | Some puzzles will be solved only with friends. |
By gothic wedding, which is something a female named Frieda tearfully asks sekboya find the lost groom, a wardrobe filled up with things, allow to become, excuse me, freak. At the same time does not work does not find suspicious that of all the fictional characters, the easiest way to "understand" Jeeves from the series "Jeeves and Wooster"; it - what a coincidence - has already mentioned, Stephen F.: enough to leave the very first to wear trousers and a wedding suit . It is also easy to create from the Jeeves canon of British aristocrat, activating the monocle and mustache with a beard and Edwardian hat (it is unclear how Media Molecule could create such an ugly hat - it barely visible!). In this form, to be sure, much more appropriate to stagger to a level that could build a Tim Burton (while searching for the source of inspiration to work on "Corpse Bride") and Kotaro Umezu (art director Gitaroo-Man), locked in a basement with cardboard, rags and glue.
| What you should not share |
Even if you create a perfect copy of the first level of Super Mario Bros. and be absolutely confident that the gaming community can not survive without knowing about your masterpiece, and the culture of gaming in general has no right to be called such, if this work will remain solely on the hard drive of your PlayStation 3, do not spread it on PSN. Applicants to the server's content is carefully checked, and all that is in any way contrary to the law of copyright, ruthlessly deleted.
After the triumphant reunion of lovers decorations are not striking - and not because that home-made, Mexico, USA, Japan, India and Siberia came worse. Firstly, the eye is so accustomed to all these pores, sponges, cardboard, and unevenness of roughness of wood that seemed to be a little bit more, and stop to take all this image on your screen, naturally, such a move contributes to a deep immersion in the wondrous walks along the edges. Secondly, many puzzles and obstacles to the start time balancing on the brink of insanity causing gnashing of teeth and hardly bearable torture. Accuracy LittleBigPlanet player requires nothing less than resources of the PlayStation 3: Newton's laws are harsh as little where else. Jump short, jump, fall down from the platform on which seemed to be quite successful hit - in the order of things. On the other hand, the accuracy of Action generously rewarded cherished bubbles, decorations, stickers and other small things - even if you never fail to use all of this, you will be just happy to see the percentage of collected objects on the screen with the results of the passage.
 | |  | Recreate the spirit of the latest Grand Theft Auto? Yes, easily. | | Tim Burton's time to start worrying. |
The only sad moment of LittleBigPlanet - a bad decision with a limited number of attempts to overcome every obstacle, coupled with an ill-fizmodelyu - easy to pay off the total concise, which goes back almost to the very first Super Mario Bros. Sekboy is not marching with backpack weapon in his hand no beam gun, he holds the European and Asian martial arts are not worn with his sword unsheathed, and not being phased out in the spiny ball. Left stick - walking, X - jump, R1 - «grab something", nothing more. In this case, LittleBigPlanet summarizes and multiplies all that, for what we love the lion's share platformer 8 -, 16 - and 32-bit eras, from the Earthworm Jim and Mr.Nutz to Cool Spot, and Trash It! Long-term work Media Molecule - the very thing which many of us dreamed of in a distant first half of the nineties, blowing cartridge slots, reading magazines, "Video-Ass: Dendy» and "Great Drakon" by turning off the console only to watch a TV program Sergei Suponeva or animated version of "Ghostbusters", but we just dreamed about it that this little life in two dimensions, with its thin, transparent, and its own rules, it was felt that life - something more meaningful and "real "rather than a set of sprites in lower resolution.
| Media Molecule |
Modest British firm, based in Guildford, was founded by four people from Lionhead - Mark Healey, Alex Evans, David Smith and Kareem Ettuni. In the coming January marks the studio for three years. A year before the birth of Media Molecule four authors, is still being a member of Lionhead, has developed a collaborative indie project - Rag Doll Kung Fu, whose style became the basis of similar aspect MM debut game, LittleBigPlanet. Here everything is initially more serious: an exclusive contract with the European Sony Computer Entertainment, solid budget, good promotion and great expectations. MM motto - «Bubblegum for your eyes» («Gum in your eyes"). Uncertain.
Around the leaves, that in 2008 it happened. Moreover, there was as expected: "three layers of two planes and objects, looking at who instinctively want to reach out to the screen, not pushed it, because of which many are still kept at home an Atari 2600, NES and old TVs. Fantasia, formerly used for mentally "completion" of images and "simulation" poorly describe the situation, is now directed to another channel.Even in its original form sekboy - Mascot unforgettable, and each player will certainly give it a personality, choosing color and the clothes he likes, but with such an impressive range of everything and should not doubt that the chance to build a pair of identical little creatures - that has the problem.
When sekboy proberetsya through snow and icy silos, pasted posters and the Russian-speaking newspapers, crawl through a huge electrified spinning wheel and finished with crafty inventions Collector, the game begins .... Filled with sadness the villain admits that he fell into a rage because of what happened to him no friends - and then, of course, it turns out that hobnob with him, as well as with your sekboem, prepared a vast world. Its doors are open to all, whose PlayStation 3 is working with a global network who are in the same way as you went through this brief but exciting campaign has collected a barrel of scenery and a basket of stickers now and again hears the voice of Stephen F., which this time broadcasts the divine possibilities and power of creation.
 | |  | Thermometer shows the level of clutter of your creation. | | After the alternative of India to look at this is ... boring? |
Oddly, Mr. Fry's telling the truth. With the LittleBigPlanet level editor not compare anything. Once again: the LittleBigPlanet level editor not compare anything. And again: with the LittleBigPlanet level editor not compare anything. Spore Creature Creator and master the latest Banjo-Kazooie far behind, but, unfortunately, a double edged sword - not be able to turn the console on for half an hour, sit back and idly sketched horrible. Levels that are not ashamed to show tens of thousands of players - the result of many hours of meaningful experiments, and countless "pause" with "Rewind", a product produced after the development of all available items, suffice it to say that the authors themselves lined up all the eight thematic areas is through this powerful tool . Obviously, plodding on something like this is not enough for everyone, but if you get involved, then it will be even zaboristee transfer Brainiac on Channel Discovery Science. If you do not get involved, then vosmiurovnego aperitif and PlayStation Network content will be enough to go for months with LittleBigPlanet drive away from the console.
But contrary to many expectations, LittleBigPlanet has not become a video game so than "Citizen Kane" is for the movie, "Ulysses" - for literature, and "Guardians" - for comic books. The revolution was accomplished in the framework of a single genre, so that as soon as the dominance of cloned Game 3.0 will not happen. Indirectly, this confirms the modest sales and herself Media Molecule, has already started to design a sequel, and versions for the PlayStation Portable. We are more importantly: it is - platformer, reflecting the essence and beauty of the genre, with all my appeals to the simple pleasures, like collecting coins, marking time gumbo and chipping bricks. For those who are 10-12 years old - and does guarantee a happy childhood. Regularly updated treasury of fanciful worlds, which can almost touch it.
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