Lego 2K Drive on PS5
Regardless of the pliability of the Lego model, up to now, it has actually solely been used for media variations. There are a couple of authentic recreation ideas in there, nevertheless it by no means feels sufficient. I performed Lego Racers for the N64 in 1999, and I bear in mind loving it because the bricky automobiles and the enjoyable power-ups made racing gratifying. I used to be excited a few new Lego racing recreation, and the open-world side was fascinating. Whereas any Lego recreation is definitely geared towards youngsters, there’s something right here for all ages.
Lego 2K Drive begins the participant being educated by the good Clutch Racington to tackle the fearsome Shadow Z within the Sky Cup Grand Prix. After the tutorial, development is usually by way of getting first place in races towards distinctive rivals to earn checkered flags. Nevertheless, there are stints in between when it’s important to elevate your degree to proceed to the subsequent class (C to B to A), the place it looks like the sport stalls.
Whilst you can’t customise your character, the car creation and customization instruments are fairly neat. Not solely are you able to construct your personal from scratch, however there are particular autos that provide directions so you’ll be able to study to construct them your self as you’ll from an actual Lego equipment. For those who ever want a break from the driving craziness, it’s a very nice stress-free expertise. I’m terrible at visualizing and constructing issues in video games like this, however the directions possibility was good.
There are three kinds of automobiles that you’ve got geared up always, and whichever you’re at present driving relies upon completely on the terrain. There are road, off-road, and water autos, and it’ll mechanically swap everytime you veer from a highway to grime or down right into a river.
Races are a mixture of Forza Horizon, Need for Speed, and Mario Kart. That’s additionally just about how I might describe nearly the entire recreation to anybody who requested me, although. All automobiles have a everlasting increase gauge, so which means nearly each attainable powerup is offensive-based. You’re consistently having to dodge mines, homing rainbow bullets, and homing rockets. Automobiles have an precise well being stat, so rockets aren’t assured to wreck you on the primary hit.
Nevertheless, many of the beginning races are off-road, so whereas I felt I had an excellent road automotive, I couldn’t use it. Whereas this meant I bought fairly good with my off-road automotive, I hoped for a bit of extra selection. Whereas car dealing with is a stat that modifications from automotive to automotive, I by no means tried to drive one thing that felt unusable. This let me experiment, although I all the time gravitated towards a better top-speed stat.
In between races, gamers can drive round 4 islands which are unlocked as they progress. On account of this, it’s technically open-zone quite than open-world, however they’re decently massive maps. All the pieces (except for buildings) is destructible, which makes taking shortcuts a lot simpler.
Racing isn’t the one exercise to be discovered throughout the 4 islands. There are contained, non-repeatable Quests that contain both amassing a handful of issues or chasing down a automotive. World Challenges are small little video games meant for a couple of gamers. Greater than as soon as, these have been one thing like making an attempt to knock a big spherical object towards a objective. Nevertheless, there’s no approach to lock onto the thing like in Rocket League, in order that they proved to be extra irritating than enjoyable as you’re consistently overshooting making contact.
Lastly, the On-the-Go challenges supply a bit of on-map problem. That is smaller stuff, comparable to getting the furthest distance off a ramp bounce or making it up a hill full of landmines in a sure period of time. They’re one thing you’ll be able to simply do whereas driving by and proceed in your method after.
Quests present the most important cash and XP rewards, however the truth that they’ll’t be repeated is actually annoying. Nevertheless, all of them supply practically similar goals, comparable to having to spherical up a bunch of animals. This makes them really feel like a big, unavoidable chore as the remainder of the facet actions give very middling rewards.
I’ll say the sport has a enjoyable humorousness between dialogue and character names (Parker Carr, Frida Floorit). An excellent starting joke has the primary antagonist arriving simply to say, “I’m gonna smash you good for being a no-name no one who’s immediately a risk to me for no obvious cause!”
Lego 2K Drive is about up as a live-service recreation. It’s unclear how profitable it could be, however there will certainly be seasons. The one downside I had is that the sport clearly needs you to spend actual cash for the sport’s Bux foreign money. An everyday automotive prices roughly 10,000, and that’s a reasonably hefty asking value contemplating the restricted variety of quests give one thing like 500 every.
You’ll be able to earn autos by way of quests and races, however they aren’t all the time pretty much as good because the store’s choices. I don’t know what sort of reward the “DRIVEPASS” would possibly supply within the full launch, nevertheless it looks like there’s a quite heavy emphasis on microtransactions. Contemplating my ability ranges (or lack thereof) with automotive creation, it’s additionally attainable every of those can simply be made your self if you happen to perceive the components which may go into it.
Lego 2K Drive is a neat little racing recreation with fairly presumably the good automotive creation instruments I’ve ever encountered. Whereas I discover myself unable to make something moreover probably the most rudimentary car, there can be some astonishing creations within the recreation earlier than lengthy. Regardless of some points with facet actions, that is nonetheless an honest recreation if you wish to ditch the reasonable racing video games for bricks on wheels.
Reviewer: Cameron Waldrop | Copy offered by Writer.
Execs
- Superb car creator.
- Swap between three car varieties at any level based mostly on terrain.
- All autos really feel good to drive.
- Destructible objects make exploring even simpler.
- Car directions really feel like assembling an precise Lego equipment.
Cons
- Repetitive quest goals.
- Low rewards from non-quest actions.
- Appears like the sport favors microtransactions.
Launch Date
March 19, 2024
Developer
Visible Ideas Leisure
Writer
2K
Consoles
PS5, PS4, Xbox Collection X|S, Xbox One, Nintendo Swap, PC
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