But a level is a just level. In Spore you create your own species, buildings, vehicles and spaceship. All the animations of your creatures are procedurally generated, all the worlds are procedurally generated. Hell, even the music will be procedurally generated.

In Spore, it's a true, dynamic universe. In LBP it's just levels.

Spore has far more awesome than LBP. Here's some of the things you can do in the Space Phase of the game:

• The player may terraform and colonize uninhabitable planets with special tools that are purchased with credits (water tool, volcano tool, etc.).
  
• Players may colonize hostile worlds or deep under the ocean once they gain the ability to create bubbled cities, similar in function to self-sustaining arcologies. Once the world around them becomes habitable, the city loses the bubble.
• Your UFO can have a planetary effect that pumps carbon dioxide into the atmosphere to increase the amount of greenhouse gas/gases, which over time caused the oceans to rise and flood coastal cities, and eventually evaporate and transform the world into an arid desert planet then a molten rock in space similar to Venus.
• The player may travel between star systems and make contact with other civilizations on distant worlds, most of which are created by other players. Interactions revealed so far include impressing civilizations with fireworks, attacking them with weapons, or trying to establish a language with the civilization. These civilizations may react violently to the player or worship them, depending on that civilization's behavior and the race's personality.
• The player could try to conquer the galaxy by different means: beginning an interstellar war, diplomatically creating an interstellar union, etc.
• The player can run the mouse over other star systems and their individual planets to try to pick up radio static or noise that can indicate intelligent life.
• The player may abduct creatures (familiar or unfamiliar) and transport them to other planets. Players can do this to test a planet's inhabitants to see if they are friendly or not, or to merely test a planet's habitability. The abduction tool can also be used to throw creatures into orbit.
• The player may interbreed different species genetically.
• The player may cause icy comets to crash into a planet to create water.
• The player may place a "monolith" (à la 2001: A Space Odyssey) on a planet, triggering evolution of intelligent life, then come back later to see what has evolved.
• The player may use a blackhole for "wormhole-travel" which allows the player to travel distances the UFO would require hours to cover in seconds.
• The player may use a weapon to completely destroy a planet (similar to the capabilities of the Death Star from the Star Wars saga).
• The player may scan content and add the information to a database designed like a card game called the Sporepedia.
• The player may also find strange objects with unknown purposes to be used later on, possibly adding tools for the UFO.

Also @ cloud3000

when I was a kid, probably about 10, I had a computer program called "gamemaker 95" or some other digit at the end. There have been other iterations since then. It was almost exactly what LBP is, except it was 8 bit graphics. You could design everything from scratch with no programming knowledge. It was all intuitive and with a bit of tinkering and ingenuity you could learn to create some incredible things using the systems in place. It came with a handful of games to show you what you can do with it.

You could create your character sprite by sprite, animate him, give him whatever abilities and powers you wanted, create items, weapons, keys, anything. You created all the tiles with their own attributes to build the levels, you could make them damaging, add gravity, have them heal you, animate them. You could make it a side scrolling game by having the background tiles have downward gravity, or make it a top down game by making them lack any gravity. You created all of the enemies sprite by sprite, animate them, and then control very specifically how they would behave. You were limited only by your imagination and ingenuity. the goal of the levels were up to you, beginning points, end points, objectives, ect ect, all up to you. I made god knows how many games as a kid using that program, I loved it to death.

LBP will have better physics no doubt, but it's going to be more limited than even that program. You will always have sackboys, you can customize them, but they will always be sackboys. The physics is already set in place, and you have to work with it rather than create it. You can't create the abilities or animations of your characters or levels. they give you a construct, you work out what you can within it.

There have been innumerable games and programs with just as much if not more freedom to create than LBP. LBP planet's defining attribute is marketing, not revolutionary design.

I mentioned Morrowind in an earlier post, and although it sucked, Oblivion also had a game editor.  There are plenty of games that have game editors added to them, look at Civ 4, everything is available to be modded.  When I was modding, the community was asking for features that they wanted to access, and the next update opened up these features.  The truth of the matter is that game editors have been available for years in the PC world, and it is amazing that you are able to deny that.

you also my friend have mistaken engine modding as being part of the game. They are a completely seperate part even though the creators allow you to do it. That is just like Unreal Tourny and the Unreal Engine, you can make mods for the game with it, but it is not PART of the game. I cant do any of that on my console for that matter either.

This is My point.....