But....but...you get to create your own games......

nice score, looking forward to seeing what other reviewers give.

Pre-ordered from Amazon.

 Good score, I've read a few reviews now and everything sounds, the sequel does pretty much all we could ask of it, but obviously at this stage it's very difficult to get a grasp of just what this game can offer in the future.

 Now I get the fun of choosing between LBP2, Dead Space 2 or Mass Effect 2... or just buying anything from last year I never got round too. Fun fun.

Fantastic score, don't get me wrong.

But it's 5% below LBP, and I'm not sure I see why. From my editorial (which most people seem to agree with) on making a sequel:

1) Don't spend too much time on development.
2) Change your engine every so often, and if you can, use one that you've developed yourself.
3) Try to keep the team the same, especially if the original was good.
4) Don't get rid of the parts of the original that people loved.
5) Don't try to evolve too much and forget what made the original great.
6) Improve everything, because one bad aspect can bring the whole game crashing down.

1) A little over two years. Perfectly reasonable.

2) I'm pretty sure they made the engine. Not sure if they're re-using it. But IGN didn't even mention this.

3) Team is the same. Genius is still present.

4) Nothing was removed

5) Hell, you can play it exactly like the original, if you want.

6) This is the only iffy one, but nothing's become worse.

And they didn't even try to use the "did not evolve" excuse. I'm confused, but I shouldn't be, because looking for consistency in an IGN review is like looking for an iceberg in the Sahara desert.

I have always hated Greg Miller.

Nice score,hopefully it's meta score will be close to the previous's.Being higher is wishful thinking though.

I'm happy to see the sequel performing well in the review department. But this year i'm going to try and not pay so much attention to reviews considering they seem to get blown out of proportion too much. I'm going to eventually pick this game up but between DCUO, Dead Space 2, Mass Effect 2 and LBP 2.. the month of January is a hard one to decide on what i really want.

Oh and i'm just starting to go back to work this week after a 3 week shutdown at work for the holidays so money is really tight. Regardless, i'll be picking this game up though (brand new of course.)

Great stuff! That game is variety in the truest terms.

Even if its not, i doubt the mass consumer will care, when its advertised all people will know is its been getting 9s. 1 or 2 points on metacritic isnt going to change that imo.