Summary
- Build your individual road, offroad, and/or water automobiles and drive them within the open world or take them to the monitor and race them.
- Play Solo, With Friends, or With Everyone – helps cut up display screen and cross-platform play.
- We discuss to David Msika, Design Director from Visual Concepts, about partnering with LEGO to construct the final word LEGO driving expertise.
Whether you’re in search of a family-friendly recreation to take pleasure in with the children or one thing enjoyable to play whereas taking a break from slaying dragons or repelling alien invasions, LEGO 2K Drive is a captivating and downright enjoyable recreation to play with a shocking quantity of depth. Before enjoying it, I believed it was going to be a kart racing recreation with numerous automobiles, power-ups, and tracks to select from. Once I performed it, I spotted I used to be unsuitable. It’s a lot greater than that and has tons of content material to supply. I reached out to David Msika, the Design Director from Visual Concepts, to get a deeper understanding of what went into combining an iconic model like LEGO with a driving & racing recreation.
“LEGO is a extremely revered worldwide model, that fosters a tradition of unbound creativity, and reaches audiences of all ages, origins, and walks of life. And it’s additionally a tone and a selected model of humor that replicate inclusivity by having the ability to achieve children and adults on completely different ranges, and entertain them equally,” says Msika. “We knew instantly that we wished to make a recreation that might attain the widest viewers doable by providing a gameplay loop that’s very accessible, but additionally accommodates quite a lot of depth for the extra aggressive gamers.”
Part Driver, Part Racer
After enjoying LEGO 2K Drive for a few hours I spotted why the group named it Drive and never Race. The recreation options just a few completely different biomes, that are basically their very own separate open world, and every time I unlocked a brand new area I spent far more time driving round exploring the completely different areas and discovering new actions than I did within the devoted racing modes. There are numerous little particulars scattered round – some are collectibles, like golden trophies, whereas others are simply humorous to see, like The Cone Depot and UFOs crashed within the desert. You can quick journey between biomes and completely different spots on the map when you uncover new garages, so that you’re free to discover wherever you need to go.
“When we describe LEGO 2K Drive as the final word LEGO driving expertise, we put quite a lot of emphasis on the phrase drive. Early on throughout growth, we had this mantra within the group that endured all through all the challenge: we’re not making a racing recreation, we’re making a driving recreation,” explains Msika. “Every side of the sport was going to comply with that, and that implies that the driving mannequin, the surroundings, and the actions, would all be geared in the direction of permitting the automobile to be a fast-moving character that may do far more than crossing a end line: it may stroll, sprint, dash, flip round shortly, use weapons, and scale the surroundings. Of course, the racing expertise could be very quick and visceral, however the automobiles are inherently constructed to discover and compete at nice velocity!”
Start Your Engines
One of the best options about driving and racing in LEGO 2K Drive are the automobiles. You have three sorts of automobiles – Street, Off-Road, and Water, they usually routinely swap (fairly quickly) relying on the terrain you’re at present driving on. You can change automobiles to shift manually within the settings, which is helpful in the event you don’t need your Street automobile to shift to Off-Road each time you run off the highway a bit. You can use the default automobiles, select ones that you just’ve unlocked, and even construct your individual. One key ingredient racing video games like LEGO 2K Drive have to utterly good is drifting, and the drifting mechanics on this recreation are slick.
Drifting is a function the builders spent quite a lot of concentrate on perfecting. “There had been these breakthrough moments the place, after engaged on one thing for a very long time, it lastly FEELS proper,” defined Msika. “Drifting comes instantly to thoughts, and I keep in mind distinctly the nippiness that went via me once I tried the model that’s at present within the recreation and pondering “we obtained it!”. This was the thousandth iteration of the system, once you begin to really feel that you could be not fairly get there, after which, there’s that unbelievable “what if…” epiphany that unlocked all the things.”
You can drift whether or not you’re driving across the open world or racing on one of many tracks, and in a single occasion throughout a race, I pulled off the proper drift round a hairpin flip, did the previous slide job on the chief on the ultimate lap, and went on to get the win. It felt superior and left me wanting extra!
The Garage – Build Your Own Vehicle Brick by Brick
The Garage is…wonderful. Like each LEGO fan’s dream – a seemingly bottomless bucket of LEGO neatly sorted with dozens of items in all kinds of colours. The Garage may very nicely be a standalone LEGO constructing recreation. It’s enjoyable and very simple to make use of, with particular instruments to make the method even simpler. Obviously since you’re constructing automobiles to drive and race, there are limitations. The Garage flooring will hold your development challenge inside the measurement limitations, and there’s additionally a most piece depend you should adhere to. Other than that, although, you possibly can design no matter contraptions you need, after which test-drive them on a closed course. I needed to ask Msika about The Garage as a result of it’s such a pleasant a part of the sport.
“The Garage is a big level of pleasure for the group, as a result of it faucets into the fantasy of constructing with LEGOs, however with out having stock restriction, and with the addition of instruments that don’t exist in actual life, like the power to reflect one facet of a automobile or change colours on the fly,” describes Msika. “We provide it as a option to not solely be true to the LEGO model by providing a mode that emulates most intently the expertise of enjoying with the bodily plastic toy, but additionally as a option to complement somebody’s playtime by permitting them to creatively give you options to make the sport simpler.”
It’s necessary to notice you don’t have to make use of The Garage or construct any customized automobiles. You can skip that half in the event you select, however you’d be lacking out. There are loads of tutorials to show you the fundamentals of constructing automobiles and you may check with them even after you’ve accomplished them.
Solo and Group Activities
There’s rather a lot to see and do in LEGO 2K Drive. Not solely are there core actions like single races, cup collection races for a championship, and story mode, there’s additionally a bunch of mini-games. Even within the story mode there are a number of actions scattered round every biome along with the principle marketing campaign. Plus, story mode may be performed solo or totally in native cut up display screen with family and friends members.
“We wished to provide gamers as a lot of a enjoyable, complete, and assorted expertise as doable, so we got here up with an entire lot of various actions for gamers to interact in,” says Msika. “We have shut to 2 dozen extremely enjoyable races the world over of Bricklandia that every one have a particular theme, in addition to minigames the place you need to both rescue townsfolks from hordes of monsters or defend turbines from being destroyed by waves of robots. In the open world, there are dozens of On-The-Go occasions which might be bite-size actions that may problem gamers on particular abilities, like leaping, boosting, drifting, and so forth.”
LEGO 2K Drive helps solo and cut up display screen, but additionally has a number of choices for connecting with your pals or everybody else on-line, together with cross-platform coop and multiplayer (which may be disabled within the settings).
“The World Challenges may be loopy races throughout the open world, the place roads are solely a suggestion, or they could be a very quick paced scavenger hunt, the place gamers compete to gather probably the most gadgets,” says Msika. “Finally, gamers can even take part in one in every of our Cup Series, the place you play 4 races back-to-back, scoring factors primarily based in your place on the finish of every race.”
Play With Friends permits a web based occasion of as much as 6 gamers from your pals listing to play both within the shared world, a multiplayer model of the only participant open world, or do single occasions like races or cup collection championships. In Play With Everyone, you and as much as two buddies can matchmake with gamers world wide to take part in races and cup collection.
Although we don’t at all times get to see all the things it takes to construct and ship a online game, I’ve at all times been fascinated with the method and the behind-the-scenes moments we seldom get to listen to about. I requested Msika a couple of memorable expertise from creating LEGO 2K Drive and smiled actual huge with the response.
“Something I’ll at all times keep in mind is that the designers had created a secret race mission. Every time we’d give you a brand new hazard or lure for the sport, we’d put it, in extra, in that secret mission,” says Msika. “And then they added some extra that had been simply plain loopy, like large laser partitions with solely a gap the dimensions of a small automotive to get via. For some time, on the finish of each playtest, we’d launch into that secret mission, and have a blast for 10 minutes. There are solely two laps on that race, and it’s most likely lower than a mile to drive for every lap, nevertheless it takes about 10 minutes to complete it due to all of the loopy stuff the designers put in there!”
LEGO 2K Drive is out now and obtainable on Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S. You can see the varied editions under and you should definitely comply with @LEGO_2K_HUB and take a look at their official web site for all the most recent information and updates.
LEGO® 2K Drive Cross-Gen Standard Edition
2K
$69.99
The Cross-Gen Digital Edition contains LEGO® 2K Drive for Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One.
Welcome to Bricklandia, dwelling of an enormous open-world LEGO driving journey. Race wherever, play with anybody, construct your dream rides, and defeat a forged of untamed racing rivals for the coveted Sky Trophy!
In LEGO 2K Drive, your superior remodeling automobile provides you the liberty to hurry seamlessly throughout riveting racetracks, off-road terrain, and open waters. Explore the huge world of Bricklandia, exhibit your driving abilities, and construct automobiles brick-by-brick!
THE ULTIMATE LEGO DRIVING EXPERIENCE
Get behind the wheel and kit up for tons of open-world exploration and thrilling races! Take on the thrilling Story mode, bounce right into a single race or Cup Series tourneys, and let unfastened in off-the-wall minigames. Master the artwork of drifting, boosting, leaping, and utilizing power-ups to defeat opponents!
RACE FOR THE SKY TROPHY
Story mode follows your journey from rookie racer to well-known champion as you compete towards a collection of charismatic rivals. With every victory, you may work your method up the ranks to tackle the notorious Shadow Z.
OPEN-WORLD EXPLORATION
The huge and vibrant world of Bricklandia is yours to discover as you see match, full of colourful characters and kooky quests. Zoom previous lush fields on Turbo Acres’ pavement, go off-roading within the deserts of Big Butte County, cruise throughout Prospecto Valley’s picturesque waterways, and extra.
UNLEASH YOUR CREATIVITY
Building automobiles within the Garage is as straightforward as snapping bricks collectively. Construct new automobiles and boats from scratch, modify any automobile in your assortment, or unwind with guided builds, then take your creation for a drive!
PLAY TOGETHER AT HOME AND ONLINE
Roam round Bricklandia in native splitscreen or be a part of your driving buddies on-line!
LEGO® 2K Drive for Xbox One
2K
$59.99
Welcome to Bricklandia, dwelling of an enormous open-world LEGO® driving journey. Race wherever, play with anybody, construct your dream rides, and defeat a forged of untamed racing rivals for the coveted Sky Trophy!
In LEGO 2K Drive, your superior remodeling automobile provides you the liberty to hurry seamlessly throughout riveting racetracks, off-road terrain, and open waters. Explore the huge world of Bricklandia, exhibit your driving abilities, and construct automobiles brick-by-brick!
THE ULTIMATE LEGO DRIVING EXPERIENCE
Get behind the wheel and kit up for tons of open-world exploration and thrilling races! Take on the thrilling Story mode, bounce right into a single race or Cup Series tourneys, and let unfastened in off-the-wall minigames. Master the artwork of drifting, boosting, leaping, and utilizing power-ups to defeat opponents!
RACE FOR THE SKY TROPHY
Story mode follows your journey from rookie racer to well-known champion as you compete towards a collection of charismatic rivals. With every victory, you may work your method up the ranks to tackle the notorious Shadow Z.
OPEN-WORLD EXPLORATION
The huge and vibrant world of Bricklandia is yours to discover as you see match, full of colourful characters and kooky quests. Zoom previous lush fields on Turbo Acres’ pavement, go off-roading within the deserts of Big Butte County, cruise throughout Prospecto Valley’s picturesque waterways, and extra.
UNLEASH YOUR CREATIVITY
Building automobiles within the Garage is as straightforward as snapping bricks collectively. Construct new automobiles and boats from scratch, modify any automobile in your assortment, or unwind with guided builds, then take your creation for a drive!
PLAY TOGETHER AT HOME AND ONLINE
Roam round Bricklandia in native splitscreen or be a part of your driving buddies on-line!
LEGO® 2K Drive Awesome Edition
2K
$99.99
The Awesome Edition contains LEGO® 2K Drive for Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S.
Welcome to Bricklandia, dwelling of an enormous open-world LEGO® driving journey. Race wherever, play with anybody, construct your dream rides, and defeat a forged of untamed racing rivals for the coveted Sky Trophy!
THE ULTIMATE LEGO DRIVING EXPERIENCE
Get behind the wheel and kit up for tons of open-world exploration and thrilling races! Take on the thrilling Story mode, bounce right into a single race or Cup Series tourneys, and let unfastened in off-the-wall minigames. Master the artwork of drifting, boosting, leaping, and utilizing power-ups to defeat opponents!
RACE FOR THE SKY TROPHY
Story mode follows your journey from rookie racer to well-known champion as you compete towards a collection of charismatic rivals. With every victory, you may work your method up the ranks to tackle the notorious Shadow Z.
OPEN-WORLD EXPLORATION
The huge and vibrant world of Bricklandia is yours to discover as you see match, full of colourful characters and kooky quests. Zoom previous lush fields on Turbo Acres’ pavement, go off-roading within the deserts of Big Butte County, cruise throughout Prospecto Valley’s picturesque waterways, and extra.
UNLEASH YOUR CREATIVITY
Building automobiles within the Garage is as straightforward as snapping bricks collectively. Construct new automobiles and boats from scratch, modify any automobile in your assortment, or unwind with guided builds, then take your creation for a drive!
PLAY TOGETHER AT HOME AND ONLINE
Roam round Bricklandia in native splitscreen or be a part of your driving buddies on-line!
THERE’S MORE AWESOME IN THE AWESOME EDITION
LEGO 2K Drive Awesome Edition contains:
– Aquadirt Racer Pack
– Year 1 Drive Pass: Includes Season 1, 2, 3 and 4 DLC packs. the Awesome Pizza Vehicle. Release timing of the DLC contents might be revealed at a future date.
– 550 Coins
– Awesome Bonus Pack: Includes Wheelie Stunt Driver Minifigure, Machio Beast Vehicle and a Vehicle Flair.
– 3 Day Early Access
LEGO® 2K Drive Awesome Rivals Edition
2K
$119.99
The Awesome Rivals Edition contains LEGO® 2K Drive for Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S.
Welcome to Bricklandia, dwelling of an enormous open-world LEGO® driving journey. Race wherever, play with anybody, construct your dream rides, and defeat a forged of untamed racing rivals for the coveted Sky Trophy!
THE ULTIMATE LEGO DRIVING EXPERIENCE
Get behind the wheel and kit up for tons of open-world exploration and thrilling races! Take on the thrilling Story mode, bounce right into a single race or Cup Series tourneys, and let unfastened in off-the-wall minigames. Master the artwork of drifting, boosting, leaping, and utilizing power-ups to defeat opponents!
RACE FOR THE SKY TROPHY
Story mode follows your journey from rookie racer to well-known champion as you compete towards a collection of charismatic rivals. With every victory, you may work your method up the ranks to tackle the notorious Shadow Z.
OPEN-WORLD EXPLORATION
The huge and vibrant world of Bricklandia is yours to discover as you see match, full of colourful characters and kooky quests. Zoom previous lush fields on Turbo Acres’ pavement, go off-roading within the deserts of Big Butte County, cruise throughout Prospecto Valley’s picturesque waterways, and extra.
UNLEASH YOUR CREATIVITY
Building automobiles within the Garage is as straightforward as snapping bricks collectively. Construct new automobiles and boats from scratch, modify any automobile in your assortment, or unwind with guided builds, then take your creation for a drive!
PLAY TOGETHER AT HOME AND ONLINE
Roam round Bricklandia in native splitscreen or be a part of your driving buddies on-line!
THERE’S MORE AWESOME IN THE AWESOME RIVALS EDITION
LEGO 2K Drive Awesome Rivals Edition contains:
– 3 Day Early Access
– Aquadirt Racer Pack
– Year 1 Drive Pass: Includes Season 1, 2, 3 and 4 DLC packs, the Awesome Pizza Vehicle, and 550 Coins. Release timing of the DLC contents might be revealed at a future date.
– Awesome Bonus Pack: Includes Wheelie Stunt Driver Minifigure, Machio Beast Vehicle and Propeller Spoiler Deluxe.
– Awesome Rivals Bonus Pack: Includes Royal Sailor, Royal Outtaliner, Royal People Rover, Reckless Scorpion Stunt Driver Minifigure, Hamburghini Royale, Out for the Count, and Super Engine Block (Red).
