Hello. My name's Graham, and I'm a Little Big Planet addict. Since its release in November I have lost countless hours in my quest to create the ultimate level that will be played by and hearted by thousands, and in my head I'll finally be a hero of the gaming universe. While this is a goal I've yet to achieve, I can honestly say that the time I've spent in Media Molecule's sack-populated world has been among the most enjoyable I've ever spent with a videogame. However, just when you've got to grips with the tools on offer and are starting to think that your levels are really getting rather good, the game's designers come along and show you just how far behind you are. 

While this isn't the first Little Big Planet downloadable content to be released in the Playstation Store (many different outfits have been available since the game's release) it is the first new set of Media Molecule-fashioned levels we've been able to play since finishing the main game. As expected, it displays the developers' brilliant use of the game's creative tools, while also building on them.

As the title of this expansion pack suggests, the levels are based on Hideo Kojima's classic series. This being Little Big Planet, however, means that a huge amount of tongue in cheek humour is thrown into the mix as you meet the cast of familiar faces, battling your way through increasingly hectic battlefields, before finally and inevitably squaring off against Metal Gear Rex. In order to inject new life into the gameplay, the developers have added guns. Or rather, they've invented the Paintanator which, as you might expect, is a paint gun. Suddenly the game becomes less about delicate platforming and more akin to the Treasure shoot-em up classics of the 16-bit era.

There are a huge number of new objects to collect to put in your own levels and the replay value is pushed even further by the shoot-em-up nature of the stages, allowing more high score chasing than in the levels provided with the original disc. Take the first level, for example. On your first play-through it seems like the humorous Metal Gear Solid spoof you were expecting, if a little uneventful. Look again and you realise there's an Operation Wolf-style shooter hidden within, cleverly using the sticker-switch function to bring out yet more ways to play.