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"As some of you may have noticed, LBP has been slightly delayed in some territories," technical director Alex Evans wrote - with some measure of understatement - on the developer's official website. "At MM we were as shocked and dismayed by this as anyone - shellshocked and gutted. We can't wait for you all to get playing and creating!"
Evans said the developer only found out about the offensive lyric on 16th October after it "slipped through the usual screening processes".
"Obviously MM and Sony together took this very seriously. LBP should be enjoyable by all. So within 12 hours of hearing about this issue involving a lyric (in Somalian, I believe!), Media Molecule had prepared an automatic day 0 patch and had a new disk image ready.
"However, a decision was made within Sony that the right thing to do for quality and support of people with no online [PlayStation Network access] was to replace existing disks. They assure us that they are doing everything in their power to get things straightened out as fast as possible, and will announce dates soon."
Elsewhere on the European PlayStation.com forum, one of Sony's community managers elaborated on the nature of the problem and its solution.
"LittleBigPlanet will be remastered in order to remove a track from the game that contained two expressions found in the Qur'an," he wrote.
"Whilst shorter expressions from the Qur'an are sometimes used in Nasheeds, we are aware that the mixing of musical instruments with recognisable extracts from the Qur'an is offensive to Muslims. Therefore, we have taken immediate action to rectify this. We will confirm a new launch date shortly."
Sony America issued a variation on the original SCEE confirmation statement late on Friday, in which the platform holder said the game would arrive in US stores in "the week of October 27th". Sony Europe is expected to confirm a new date imminently, amidst suggestions the game will be released on 31st October or 7th November. (UPDATE, 11.16am: Sony has now said the game will be out here in the week commencing 3rd November.)
In the meantime, the delay has caught national press attention in the UK, and promo versions - already distributed to journalists and folks connected to Sony - are exchanging hands for desperate sums on eBay, peaking at over GBP 100 yesterday.
CRITICS CORNER:
100Playstation Official Magazine UK
There simply isn't anything else like LBP on any system, anywhere. It's a beautifully elegant and powerful creative tool that puts unlimited potential in the palm of your hand. [Nov 2008, p.92]
100Maxi Consolas (Portugal)
LBP is a unique game. It disguises itself as a 2D platform game but surprises the players with a set of editing tools and level sharing absolutely amazing. With a distinctive style and an everlasting future potential, we can say that Sackboy already conquered this industry. [Oct 2008]
100Gameplayer
LittleBigPlanet is like a magic trick, and in that respect it feels less like a videogame than an incredible concept executed perfectly. LittleBigPlanet is like LEGO (the blocks, not the game), it's like Monopoly, it's timeless... it's lightning in a bottle – and if Sony play their cards right it could well save the PS3, and propel the console into the stratosphere.
100Total Video Games
Undoubtedly one of the finest games in recent years, LittleBigPlanet deserves every single shred of a 10. You won't find a more polished or rewarding videogame this year, and for quite some time we'd imagine.
100GamePro
There's really nothing I can say other than this: if you own a PS3 and you don't buy LittleBigPlanet, you are robbing yourself of one of the most unique gaming experiences ever designed.
100Edge Magazine
It's a multiplayer riot, a visual landmark, a feat of engineering, and one of the most charming games ever made. But even those accolades are dwarfed by its scope, its potential, and the apparent endlessness of them both. [Dec 2008, p.76]
100G4 TV
It's so satisfying to finally have a game that not only lives up to the hype but exceeds it so many ways it's almost unfair.
100Kombo
LBP is one of the most important games to be released this decade. A tall order with the hype machine running overtime for the game but the way it reinvents how video games are played is sure to have lasting effects indefinitely. It is impossible not to fall in love with all the charm LBP oozes.
100Game Revolution
Little Big Planet is just what Doctor Sony ordered: universally appealing gameplay with an appealing everyman hero that is connected to streaming delivery of new content. Sony should be lauded for such a gamble, and Media Molecule should be praised. This is a rare toy that has the capacity to inspire the inventor, the explorer, and the gamer.
1001UP
Yes, it's the most charming game that I've ever played, and it's one of the most enjoyable. But the real beauty of LBP is even less tangible: creative empowerment at its finest and an unparalleled motivator to want to create.
100DarkStation
The best game I've played all year. It is an extremely fun platformer with stunning graphics not to mention the most extensive level creation tool I've ever seen.
100The Onion (A.V. Club)
When Sackboy drifts into freefall while skateboarding down a steep incline, that sinking feeling in your gut means that the game's exquisitely tuned physics are working.
100D+PAD Magazine
LittleBigPlanet is gaming's equivalent to YouTube: an unprecedented channel of collective talent that offers a level of creative freedom never before seenin a commercial videogame. It does for the platform genre what Half-Life did for shooters and what Gran Turismo did for racers; injecting innovation into a rapidly-staling genre and paving the way for the future of the side-scrolling platformer.
100ZTGameDomain
Consider the purchase of your PS3 more than justified.
100Gaming Age
LittleBigPlanet is a beautiful, happy, extremely eye-pleasing game that will put a smile on anyone's face who plays or merely watches it. Like Sackboy himself, it's impossible to not find the game both attractive and aesthetically pleasing.
100Thunderbolt
LittleBigPlanet is much more than simply a game or even a tool, it's an experience. The sack people are an infectiously charming bunch and as soon as you've settled in you'll want to stay for the foreseeable future.
100TheSixthAxis
A stunning, powerfully confident title that deserves all the praise it's ever been awarded, the Media Molecule guys should be so pleased with what they've managed to accomplish and just as much good feeling goes the way of Sony for putting so much faith in the game and getting behind it 100%.
100Giant Bomb
When it's at its best, LittleBigPlanet offers excitement and the thrill of discovery in ways that no other console game ever has.
97GameZone
LBP has managed to do what few other games have – it breaks demographic barriers easily. LittleBigPlanet is a robust game that is huge in concept, with endless replayability and a real sense of joy.
97PSX Extreme
Media Molecule has created a game that'll go down in videogame history as one of the best gaming achievements ever, and you'd be extremely foolish to pass this up. There is absolutely nothing out there that can give you this much bang for your buck.
97PSM3 Magazine UK
The game PS3 was waiting for - fun, richly creative, and truly fresh. [Dec 2008, p.60]
97MEGamers
The single player game alone is worth the price of admission. It offers a level of detail and value that no other game on the market right now can match. The multiplayer game adds a whole new dimension to the game. The editing /level design sections have to be seen to be believed.
97IGN UK
It's a celebration of inspiration and human interaction and a hugely welcome, utterly invigorating experience among usual roster of nihilistic shooters jostling for shelf space this Christmas.
96Computer and Video Games
You'll look for inspiration for levels, mechanical dilemmas or puzzles in every corner of your life. And in your sleep. It will take over your conversations with fellow players. You will become obsessed. You have been warned.
96Games Master UK
An amazing achievement and every bit as intuitive and addictive as we'd hoped. [Dec 2008, p.62]
95Game Informer
LittleBigPlanet is a gaming epiphany – one of the rare titles that opens new horizons on the landscape and changes the way you think about interactive entertainment.
95PTGamers
LittleBigPlanet is a rarity, able to conquer even the bitterest of players. Its identity is one of a kind, it plays in familiar but exquisite ways and the creation tool is a never-ending discovery of possibilities. It's only a platformer, sure, but it's everything we should expect from one.
95Meristation
Little Big Planet is revolutionary thanks to its flexible, fun and powerful editor. Creating a quality level takes time but the feeling of achievement is overwhelming. A must for everyone who loves creativity or likes to explore what the creativity of a passionate community can produce.
95IGN
Media Molecule has created a brilliant platformer, and then given you the tools to recreate the whole thing over again, or better yet, to create your own ideas from scratch. It's not perfect - the controls could be tighter, automatically shifting between planes can be problematic, the editor isn't quite as robust as you might hope - but what's there is nothing short of astounding.
95Playstation Universe
LittleBigPlanet is innovation at its finest. It's beautiful, hilarious, completely unique, and incredibly fun. You can't afford to miss it.
95TotalPlayStation
This game belongs in every single PS3 owner's collection. It's that good.
94GameTrailers
LBP lives up to its promise of playing, creating, and sharing. It's a strong 2D platformer that darts into the shadow of trouble once in awhile, but it's ultimately redeemed by its daring design.
94Play UK
LittleBigPlanet is certainly more difficult to master than we first imagined, but it pays off on its promise and then some. Media Molecule has created a game that deserves to take the world by storm, and this really is just the beginning.
94Gamer 2.0
While LittleBigPlanet's launch may have been a bit rough with the recall and such, the game itself definitely lives up to the hype with a very enjoyable story campaign and has almost limitless potential in the level creator tools for the community aspect of the game.
93Ferrago
LittleBigPlanet is one of the most inviting game world's ever imagined, the concept is a masterstroke, the implementation slick.
92IGN AU
Where LittleBigPlanet stands out is in the genuinely amazing integration of deep, deep content creation tools and incredible variety of objects with a community mode that truly makes content exchange and rating not just easy, but practical and even essential.
92Cheat Code Central
The game is everything it promised and more: striking level design, great music, easy controls, addictive gameplay, tons of features and collectables, and amazing physics.
923DJuegos
LittleBigPlanet is a triumph in every single sense of its concept, and brings almost everything we were hoping for. If Media Molecule polish its little gameplay limitations it is possible for this franchise to become another reason to buy a PlayStation 3.
91GameShark
Play. Create. Share. These three simple words make up developer Media Molecule's little big blueprint for a charming and unique game that wonderfully brings out the creative side in people. Apparently there are already plans for a sequel, but I can't imagine how the developers can possibly top this.
91GamingTrend
Families will enjoy Little Big Planet because of the ease of gameplay and the four player co-op. Hardcore gamers will enjoy Little Big Planet because of the collection aspect and the user created content. Future game designers will love Little Big Planet because of the incredible level editor.
90Level7.nu
Little Big Planet could very well be a modern classic. Relying heavily on user content this game will only grow in splendor with time. The game does hold it's own though with great levels, beautiful graphics and fantastic four player co-op. A somewhat unrealised potential with regards to the controls and movement of charaters is the only thing standing in the way of a perfect score.
90LEVEL (Czech Republic)
A fabulous platformer game and powerful editing tools in one package. Creative players will reach heaven with possibilities this game offers, and others can enjoy fruits of their work. [Nov 2008]
90EuroGamer
We're just happy to see a flagship game for a modern system that's about running from left to right and jumping over things. New ideas are great, great old ideas are better, and LittleBigPlanet has both: it's the future and the past of videogames, rolled into one.
90VideoGamer
LittleBigPlanet may well save the PS3 (if it indeed needs saving), it may be the most creative game of all time, it could well usher in a new era of user-generated gaming, and has a chance of bringing about a 2D platforming renaissance, but all those things are down to you. The game Media Molecule has created won't do these things alone, but if gamers create the levels we think they're capable of, we might be looking at one of the most important games this console generation has seen.
90Kikizo
A quantum leap in concept and design, and one which falls inches - nay, millimetres - short of a perfect score. There's no better reason to own a PlayStation 3.
90GameSpot
Little Big Planet is a novel, imaginative, and highly customisable platform game.
90GameDaily
It also has some of the best graphics and audio on PlayStation 3. All of the textures, from a sun drenched African landscape to Sackboy's realistic looking burlap skin look amazing, as do the various special effects.
90GameSpy
Truthfully, LBP is a game rooted in production and consumption. The experience is hinged upon consuming and collecting in order to expand your depth and range when it's time to move into conceiving and concocting. Not everyone is going to offer a vision for others to experience, but the revolutionary nature of LittleBigPlanet ensures that gamers worldwide will be enriched a little more each time they turn on their PS3s.
90Gamer.nl
LittleBigPlanet is one of the best and original games we've ever played. The gameplay is perfect in it's simplicity, because the game can be played with only a few buttons. And thanks to the brilliantly designed levels the simple gameplay never gets dull but instead stays fun and fresh. For both the casual and core gamer LittleBigPlanet will be an irresistible game. You'll even get a great editor, free of charge, Offering you tons and tons of extra things to do and to discover. You probably won't play a better game than LittleBigPlanet this year.
90Extreme Gamer
Little Big Planet is one of the years most stimulating games to be released.
90games(TM)
We may have seen level creation before, but LittleBigPlanet is a stirring glimpse of the future. It manages to be both curring edge and classic simultaneously, with neither quality stifling the other. [Issue#76, p.110]
90Gamervision
It's fantastic, fun, beautiful, creative, and unique—pretty much everything you would want from any game and everything you would expect from a game that came with so many months of hype and excitement. With unlimited replay value and potential, you will probably be playing it for months—if not years—to come.
85Destructoid
As a product, LBP is amazingly solid with firm foundations outside of minor movement issues. As an experience, LBP is immeasurable and defined by the community. Let's hope designers keep designing and further the bar as the game grows older.
80Variety
Coupled with a robust sharing system that borrows the best elements of YouTube, LittleBigPlanet is less a game than a platform for making and downloading videogame levels. Ultimate success beyond a niche of wanna-be game developers will depend on an extraordinarily active community that gives everyone else a reliable dose of new creations. [*Note: All Variety scores are provided to Metacritic by Variety's Games Editor - Metacritic is not estimating here or on any other game review.]
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