E3 Anticipation

It looks like the gaming press is all excited about this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo.  And,thanks to a last-minute visit from the E3 Ticket Fairy,so am I.  Alex Evans says “It’s great! It’s hard,it kills me,but it’s great.”,a ringing endorsement if I ever heard one.

• In Gamespot’s most anticipated games of E3 (editors’choice),Richard Torres says “Oh yes,and I was also a big fan of the original Little Big Planet[sic] because of the possibilities the game opened up to aspiring game designers. As someone who still checks up on all the user-generated content that’s still being actively created,I’m eager to see how all the new tools Media Molecule is adding to the mix are going to work and what the story mode is going to be like in Little Big Planet 2.”
• In 1UP’s most anticipated games of E5,LittleBigPlanet 2 ranked fifth in their big top fifty list.
• In IGN’s anticipation parade,LittleBigPlanet 2 only gets a single mention,and no one chooses it as their most anticipated.
• In GameTrailers’countdown,LittleBigPlanet 2 is completely missing from their top 10 most anticipated games of E3.

It seems like you just can’t get people as excited about a sequel.  Hey,wait a minute.. Portal 2 is tops on 1UP’s list,is all over IGN’s piece,and comes in 6 on GT’s countdown.  Won’t they be surprised when Gabe Newell and Alex Evans take to the stage together,announcing that everything we know is wrong:  Portal 2,Half-Life 2 Episode 3,and LittleBigPlanet 2 are actually a single game.

Sackboy and friends,playing around with portal guns and companion cubes inside the manifestation of Chell’s thoughts on LittleBigPlanet,run into a problem when Chell defeats GLaDOS and then falls unconscious.  Pulled down the cerebrumbillical cord by Aperture Science’s ill-conceived trans-imagination wormhole technology,they arrive on Combine-occupied Earth just in time to see a huge Sackbot dragging Chell away.  Using a Popit containing items from GLaDOS’s dreams,the players must find Gordon Freeman and Alyx and bring them back to Aperture to rescue Chell from a mysterious Sackbot army.  Only then can they restore the cerebrumbillical cord to equilibrium and return to LittleBigPlanet…or can they?  The adventure begins Holiday 2013.  Pre-orders now being accepted at GameStop and Amazon.com.