14 DAY TRIAL // Just a little bit late, six months to be precise, to share the hype generated by the movie, Little Big Planet gets a Watchmen pack. Media Molecule has put together a costume pack for the sackboys of the game, which will become available this Thursday and will be made up of depictions for four of the super heroes. Silk Spectre II, Rorschach, Nite Owl, and Ozymandias are the characters that gamers will get to enjoy impersonating in the Little Big Planet universe.
The pack also comes with sticker packs that hold representations of other characters that composed the Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons comic book. Among them users can also find the man with the oh so bright waist area, Dr. Manhattan, carefully censored in the stickers by the aforementioned blinding light. Being inspired by a famous comic book and a well received cinematographic adaptation the themed costume pack will probably be priced somewhere around $5, unlike the usual packs that cost $2.99.
Little Big Planet was developed by Media Molecule, formed mainly by Mark Healey, the creator of Rag Doll Kung Fu, and is a puzzle platformer and user-generated content video game that came out on the PlayStation 3. The title was first announced in March 2007 at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco and was released in late October 2008. The game allows up to four players to navigate their own customizable "Sackboys" across different levels, fighting off enemies and avoiding traps to achieve a certain goal. The title received a huge positive reaction from critics and fans mainly due to the vast user-generated content that it received. The game came with a very elaborate, yet accessible editor that allowed and encouraged gamers to crate their own content.
The idea to merge Little Big Planet with the Watchmen universe isn't a brilliant revelation but not a world-ending miss either. Even if brought up so far away from the blockbuster release the pack might see a few sales here and there. The comic has a pretty solid fan base but it's mostly an underground movement, made up of veteran comic readers and less of the younger ones that are more likely to interact with the PS3.