Within the next few months, two similar. But very different games are being released. Spore from EA, and LittleBigPlanet from Sony. While each is on a different platform, which one of these user-generated "creativity" genre titles do you hold in a higher regard? Lets take a closer look into each game, incase you don't know about them at the time being.

LittleBigPlanet (PS3) - Starring Sony's new Mascot. Sackboy; LittleBigPlanet puts players in control of building their own levels, either competitively, solo, or co-operatively. Players then can jump, run, push, pull, manipulate, and work together or agaist eachother in order to reach the goal of the stage. Revolutionizing the platformer genre, by adding much needed elements to it. The big seller of LittleBigPlanet will of course be the online, which PSN happily provides. Being able to download other people's levels as well as play with your friends or just a couple of guys online will provide for a social and enjoyable experience.

Spore (PC) - Will Wright's Newest creation, originally coined "SimEverything". Puts the player in control of their very own creature, from microscopic to the furthest stars. Almost everything is possible in spore, the player begins by creating a small cell. Which grows, develops defenses and offensive abilities, untill it eventually leaves the primodial soup to join the multicelled organisms that inhabit whatever planet your on. It doesn't stop there however, you'll eventually become a tribe, build cities, take over the world, and while your at it. Might as well launch into space and mess with other worlds. Online is lacking however, EA descibes the game as a "Massively Single-player Online game", allowing for planets and other creatures to be downloaded to your PC.

While the gaming platforms are a bit unfair, I'm not interested in sales. Spore WILL outsell LittleBigPlanet. Due to a MUCH larger gaming audience on the PC. (Spore Wii vs LittleBigPlanet is a more fair sales competition). I am more interested in the perks of the creative systems they have installed, can a specialized system designed towards pure level and sackboy design beat out spore's own literal "universe" generator. Or is the magitude of creative design enabled in spore too much for LittleBigPlanet to handle? Both games in my opinion will do fantastic, however I have to hold spore is higher regard. Being god to my own little universe? Sold.

Which game are you looking more forward too?

LBP will be Huge.

Spore, no contest. Even the music in Spore is procedurally generated!!

Spore is the true revolution in gaming.

I honestly don't see the pull of LPB player generated content. Is there actually a full fledged game to play with LPB before needing to go into the level builder?

LBP will be really awesome, but anybody that says it's more revolutionary, or a bigger deal than spore is either (a)Ignorant or (b)Ignorant because of blind fanboyism.

Technologically spore is a huge deal, from the industry standpoint, spore will be gigantic, from a gamers standpoint, spore is going to be incredible. LBP will be a great game, and I am buying it day one, but from an objective standpoint it's not what spore is. An intuitive level editor marketed well isn't nearly as important or big for the industry as what spore is bringing to the table.

Spore, hands down. You're not just making your own levels, you're creating your own species from scratch, including their mode of civilization and their ability to terraform the galaxy. How is that not awesome?

Sounds like it'll be good in giving inspiration to the players in regarding creating levels. Which is good, cause I honestly need it! Seein' what the tools can produce vs what my imagination has in store is key to finding and hitting my limits when it comes to these games.

LBP isn't really a creative game, it's just a level editor (I'm not saying it's bad, I'm just saying that's what it is). Spore is something just insanely huge.

Think of it this way, look at both games pitches:

LBP: We want to make a game that thrives on user created content by giving them an editor that is great at physics and making Rube Goldberg type of machines so people can make their own fun and interesting platformer levels.

Spore: We want to make a game where people create a creature and then take that creature from a microscopic level all the way to galactic empires and give the user complete control all the from the beginning to the "end".

One of those isn't hard to do and the other is a very hard sell (in fact, if anyone other than Will Wright pitched it, the game would never be made).

Thanks for the response, I was really hoping a full game would have to be included.

I agree, the fact that everything in Spore is based on procedural programming makes it the most revolutionary game in over a decade, and LPB simply doesn't even come close to comparison.