I normally hate game reviews. There can be some useful information in them, but on the whole they are usually less than informative, and since they always use the same criteria across every genre it throws the entire scale out of order. Not to mention some reviews are directly related to endorsement, sales, or maintaining a business relationship.

In an attempt to put aside my differences (and out of a pure and just love for everything LBP), I sat down to watch the IGN video review. Many good points were made, and while the true freedom and depth of the game (such as the astounding possibilities of the creator, and the depth/length/presentation/creativity of story mode) was possibly overshadowed by the few gripes described (creator can be finicky with detach bug, issues with tags, real physics making controls not as tight Super Mario), they had a lot of good things to say.

9.5/10 is nothing to complain about. 10 points for presentation seems very fitting, and 9.5 across the rest of the board means that, yes, this game is indeed more awesome than it even looks. Many of the complaints the reviewer even had were brushed off as extremely minor. They even hail that the game would be good and complete without a creator. The awesome unseen footage of story levels has me ready to agree.

For those of you not in the US, eurogamer also gave them a (9/10) review.

Metacritic lists a few other reviews.

In simple terms (too long didn’t read): ignore the reviews and pre-order LBP then play, create, share. If you pre-order, some stores are doing midnight release, check with your local retailer.