Oh sure, you think you’ve seen some impressive things made so far in LittleBigPlanet 2. Cult Valve favourite Portal perhaps? Or retro RPG Final Fantasy VII? How about a whole operating system (well almost)? A team of LBP enthusiasts have been working to build a functional homage to Windows XP in the game, and it is damn impressive.
The crazy team (Boss_Mob, SaggySackBoy, tomatenbrei and daFRED94) have recreated the operating system, including a file explorer, media player – try and guess all the music tracks lovingly recreated with LBP2’s tools – an internet browser, and even games! There’s three in the level, including a cute space shooter, and something called Celex that I won’t even pretend to understand.
I could go on about the “videos”, which are actually pre-programmed Sackbot routines to music, the authentic logon noise, or the amusing reference you’ll find in the Recycle Bin, but really you should just go and play it yourself. Unfortunately, if you don’t have the beta yourself, you’ll be waiting until January, but you can at least pretend you’re playing by full-screening the YouTube video we’ve embedded below and randomly mashing buttons on your DualShock. If you’re that desperate.
Thanks TSBonyman!
gazzagb
Impressive, can’t wait to see what people do with the real thing!
TSBonyman
Cheers Josh! :)
I thought it was really clever and a bit of cheeky fun but it also shows another side to LBP2’s create mode.
I won’t be creating anything of note myself but i’m looking forward to tinkering around with it all the same. :)
Alex_Assassin_08
Best thing I have seen all day, s can’t wait for this game :)
John Malcolm
This seems more stable than real Win XP! I wonder if (a) Microsoft have got wind of this, and (b) will they take legal action?
bunimomike
Sensational. Okay, not sure about the real world application in a game level but to see what it can do?… Just incredible. Full credit to the guys who built this.
cc_star
And I can’t even stick a ball to a bit of string
icuyesido
They should make an Apple version, then it wouldn’t crash…
cc_star
The couldn’t afford it
Jordaaaan
Sweet, I’d like to see Touhou recreated next, but with more bullets, their version just sort of looked like anti guitar hero.
PriceKitty
Should have done Mac OS instead.
cc_star
But where would you stroke & fondle
MXZ
That is a pretty nifty parody of windows (its also a nice storage place for features)
so the games like, what 20 days away from release?