LittleBigPlanet 2 Hands-On: Sack Up, Sackboy

Since grapple guns seem to be all the rage these days, LittleBigPlanet's newest addition refuses to be painted with a single brush. No, the game has decided to top itself by allowing you to create any kind of game you can imagine with its complex creation tools. Also, LittleBigPlanet 2 has a grapple gun. Go figure.

"One new feature heavily utilized in each level we played was the grapple gun. It’s a blast to use – if a little difficult to control when attempting to swing, manage the length of your tether and leap to some nearby platform all in one fluid motion. You’ll use the grapple in almost every level to traverse ravines or climb to great heights. It’s always incredibly fun when the grapple is used in conjunction with the newly added bumper-plates. One touch and the plates shoot you rapidly forward, sometimes in a fast, wild, 360-degree loop, allowing you to leap to higher levels and scale impossible heights. Like that cat caught on the ceiling fan in that YouTube video…"

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