Everyone plays shooters, fighting games, RTS'. MMORPGs, and/or sports games. But there's a new type of game that has a great chance at adding another genre to that list. User created games. I've been following LittleBigPlanet since its announcements but it's far from the first game of its type.
You could argue Paint -the software that comes standard on all Windows computers- was the start (Mario Paint might have been the console's start). And while there were character creating/editing, map making, and play making tools (sports games) there wasn't another big advance until Line Rider. Line Rider let you draw whatever you could think of and gave you a little character to do run around your creation. And the last major innovation was probably Spore, while the game structure was there the aesthetic look of the universe is unique to the user. Two months after that release LittleBigPlanet is making its debut. Allowing you to create your own levels, goals, and objects. So I mean hopefully innovations are going to start coming in more quickly.
I'll leave it there. I love shooters, fighting games..... anything heavily multiplayer. But I've always been drawn to the games that have creation tools in them. That's the kind of multiplayer community I'd enjoy being part of the most.
Side note: Maybe down the road there'll be a game where there's two user-communities supported: the creators and the players. (LittleBigPlanet technically is that game but there's gotta be more emphasis on the players side i think.)
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