It seems like most of the people creating levels for the PS3 game, Little Big Planet, are creating levels based on other video games. There are plenty of Super Mario Bros. levels and Mega Man levels. That's to be expected since those were side-scrollers just as Little Big Planet is. Games of other genres, such as Mortal Kombat and Shadow of the Colossus are represented too. These levels based on games can be problematic because they could be yanked from Sony's servers at any time for violating copyright laws. There has been much controversy over this, and in my view, I would hope that the various game companies out there would be lenient in their intellectual property protection. After all, most of these levels are tributes to great games, and I would think that they would be flattered by the hours taken to create such intricate stages.
If all levels based on games were to disappear, however, I fear that levels based on movies would be next. Here's a series of levels based on one of my favorite trilogies of all time: Back to the Future. The great thing about these levels is that they are surprisingly accurate in telling the story of the three movies:
I only wish they could have included the musical score from the movie!
Thursday, December 11, 2008
12/11/2008 - Sack to the Future (3 videos)
Saturday, January 5, 2008
1/5/2008 - NES BttF game's music is from the movie
If you've seen the Angry Video Game Nerd's review of Back to the Future for the Nintendo Entertainment System, you'll have heard him complain about the horrendous music in the game and how it doesn't sound like anything in the movie. Well, this video actually proves him wrong:
Wow, this was a revelation to me and to a lot of other gamers, I'm sure. To think that the absolutely vile cacophony from the game was actually "Power of Love" by Huey Lewis and the News, only SPED UP... that alone tells you that the programmers for this game did not know the movie at all. Also, the fact that somebody recognized it and took the time to speed down the music to match the original soundtrack... well, it just shows that old games, even bad ones, never truly die.
