- For the remake of the 1991 game, see Lemmings (2006).
Lemmings (PS3) is a traditional Lemmings game released via PlayStation Network for the PlayStation 3. It is a common misconception that this game is the same remake of Lemmings that was released for the PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 2, but it is an entirely original game.
Two versions of Lemmings (PS3) can be downloaded from the PlayStation Store: the free demo version, which restricts the player to the Trial levels and the first levels of the Fun and Tricky difficulties, and the paid full version, which allows the player to unlock all levels.
Gameplay[]
Lemmings (PS3) features 45 levels, split between five difficulties: Trial, Fun, Tricky, Taxing, and Mayhem. Trial consists of five levels, while the remaining four difficulties have ten levels each. The first three levels in each difficulty are unlocked from the start, with a subsequent level unlocked for each level the player completes.
As with previous Lemmings games, the objective of Lemmings (PS3) is to guide enough of the Lemmings into the Exit portal within the time limit, using the skills provided by the game. The game retains the eight skills from Lemmings (1991) and its remake: Climber, Floater, Bomber, Blocker, Builder, Basher, Digger and Miner. However, unlike previous games, Lemmings features Pick-up Skills, objects in levels that a Lemming can walk to and collect, adding an additional copy of a skill to the player's inventory. This is a distinct mechanic from the Tools found in The Lemmings Chronicles, which are only usable by the Lemming that collected them and can be dropped somewhere else in the level.
Lemmings (PS3) also introduced Cloning Machines, which make a clone of the first Lemming that walks into them, including any Permanent Skills that the original Lemming has. Teleporters from Lemmings 2: The Tribes make a return, and the game introduced dark levels, which would go on to return in Lemmings: The Puzzle Adventure.
Style and Music[]
Lemmings (PS3) uses a 2D, brightly colored style for the Lemmings, rendering each part of their bodies with individual polygons. This is in contrast with the game’s promotional material, which uses the same 3D rendered Lemmings seen in promotional material for Lemmings (2006). The Lemmings are animated in a bouncier style, and feature indicators of Permanent Skills that they have (namely the Climber's helmet and the Floater's parasol), as with Lemmings (2006).
Lemmings (PS3) has two distinct tilesets, or themes, which it uses for its levels. One is a theme based on machinery with a cyan color scheme, and terrain that resembles metallic components such as screws, switches, gears and prongs. The other is a theme based on a haunted house with a dark color scheme, and terrain that resembles bookshelves, portraits, cobwebs and bricks.
The game has three tracks for each of its two tilesets; one of these tracks will be randomly selected to play continuously when a level with the appropriate tileset is being played; the selected track will keep playing if the level is restarted. The game additionally features music for the title screen, which is a remix of the track “Lemming1” from the original Lemmings.
The voices of the Lemmings from Lemmings (2006) are reused in Lemmings (PS3); although, unlike the previous game, the voice clips are played in a randomly selected, slightly different pitch for each Lemming.
Levels[]
Trial[]
- Teach me Climbers and Floaters
- Teach me Builders and Bashers
- Teach me Bombers and Blockers
- Teach me Digger and Miner
- Teach me Lights, Teleport and Cloner
Fun[]
- Start with nothing, end with nothing
- Floaters all the way
- Down and down we go!
- Give a fellow lem a hand
- My first teleporter
- Total eclipse of the lem
- From the left in order to go right
- Watch where you dig
- Watch how you go now
- Beam me up lemmy
Tricky[]
- Keep an eye on Mr. Climber
- A change of direction
- A thing called lem
- Hero Lemming to the rescue
- Lem in a box
- A nice little puzzle
- Don't forget the others
- Lem up and down we go
- Down the hatch
- Don't send me up there!
Taxing[]
- 3rd time lucky
- Down and out
- Float on home Mr. Lemming
- One lazy Lemming
- Like a lem in a sweet shop
- Bomb not bash
- Teleport where Teleport there
- Lemmy we're going down
- Follow the light
- Lem me your ears
Mayhem[]
- Lem does this Lem does that
- Lemmy down
- Lem lift us up
- Lemmy have another go
- Burning bridges
- Plan ahead Mr. Lem
- Take it from the top
- Light my path oh hero Lemming
- Roar of the big machine
- The lengthy level
Notes[]
- The game's working title during development was, confusingly, Lemmings 2. Seeing as it directly followed the remake of the original game for the PSP and PS2, the name might have been given to the game to position it as a direct sequel to the remake.
- To date, Lemmings (PS3) is the last Lemmings game to be released on a home video game console. All subsequent Lemmings games have been released on mobile devices.
- In Exient’s Feedback Survey for Lemmings: The Puzzle Adventure, Lemmings was referred to as “Lemmings for PlayStation (PSN)” and was listed as being released in 2007.