Take a look at this new trailer for Little Big Planet, a game for the Playstation3. It starts with a reference to the Dutch game ‘Killzone’. It looks real fun to make your own content and to build levels.

Players can use their abilities to shape and develop the highly manipulable environment to build custom spaces either individually, collaboratively, and/or competitively. Levels focus on co-operative, physics-based gameplay, and players can use mechanisms such as cogs and blocks to build anything from small level parts to large, complex worlds. The game will also allow opportunities for players to acquire new skills and tools. A major focus of LittleBigPlanet will be on the global community features through the PlayStation Network for players to interact and share their “patches” – levels and other modifications – as well as online play.

It is due for release in October 2008. The game’s physics engine looks pretty realistic.

And physics seem to be real hot. I was just playing ‘Boomblox’ on the Nintendo Wii, a Steven Spielberg / EA game where there’s also a big role for physics. The objective of the game is to knock a structure made of blox over, so that all the blox fall. Or the other way around, pretty much the same as the old school Jenga (which means ‘to build’).

By the way, the trailer’s soundtrack is a great song by the Battles called ‘Atlas’.