PlayStation’s LittleBigPlanet gets mobile spin-off called Ultimate Sackboy

PlayStation has unveiled a brand new cellular recreation known as Final Sackboy, a operating recreation developed by U.Ok.-based Exient.

Coming to Android and iOS on February twenty first, Final Sackboy is a spin-off of PlayStation’s fashionable LittleBigPlanet sequence. Whereas the sport was beforehand in closed beta testing in choose markets, together with Canada, this marks each its official unveiling and affirmation of a large launch date.

In Final Sackboy, you’ll management the titular burlap sack character as he runs by varied levels, requiring you to maneuver and soar to keep away from obstacles. On this means, the gameplay could be very paying homage to limitless runners like Temple Run and Crash Bandicoot: On the Run!, simply with a LittleBigPlanet aesthetic. Alongside the way in which, you’ll gather LBP‘s signature bubbles and unlock costumes to vary Sackboy’s look.

The sport is confirmed to be free-to-play, so it stays to be seen what kind of microtransactions it might have, akin to in-app purchases for extra Sackboy costumes. The latest LittleBigPlanet recreation, Sackboy: A Large Journey, launched in November 2020 on PS4 and PS5. A PC port was launched final October.

Final Sackboy is the most recent in PlayStation’s rising efforts to increase its IPs to cellular. Final September, the corporate acquired Germany’s Savage Game Studios as a part of a newly fashioned PlayStation Studios Cellular Division. On the time, PlayStation stated Savage was engaged on a “AAA cellular stay service motion recreation,” though it was “too early” to disclose extra.

It stays to be seen what different PlayStation franchises moreover LittleBigPlanet would possibly make the leap to cellular.

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