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LEGO 2K Drive Review (PlayStation 5)

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For this LEGO 2K Drive Review, where our incredible transforming vehicles give us the freedom to speed seamlessly across riveting racetracks, off-road terrain, and open waters. Get behind the wheel and gear up for many open-world explorations and thrilling races! Take on the exciting Story mode, jump into a single race or Cup Series tournament, and let loose in off-the-wall minigames. Master the arts of drifting, boosting, and using power-ups to claim victory!

LEGO 2K Drive Review

LEGO 2K Drive Review Pros:

  • Decent graphics.
  • 9.97GB download size.
  • Platinum trophy.
  • Can connect your 2K account.
  • Motion blur on/off.
  • Colorblind support.
  • Crossplay can be turned on and off.
  • Controller settings – Invert axis and camera look delay slider.
  • Game settings – automatic transformation and in-air pitch control options.
  • Four controller layout schemes.
  • Racing gameplay.
  • Four game modes – story, cup Series, race, and minigame.
  • In-game cutscenes.
  • Splitscreen is multiplayer.
  • Opening racing tutorial with ongoing pop-ups as you play.
  • Earn EXP and cash from racing, doing events, and finding loot within the world.
  • Open world exploration.
  • Play how you want.
  • The gimmick is when you change surface (like dirt to grass or air to water) your car transforms its vehicle type.
  • The garage is where you go to create or edit vehicles. You can go as far down as changing a single brick.
  • Has the full Lego instruction manual experience for building along with skip-step options.
  • Overall stats section.
  • You can replay races and events.
  • Find events within the world.
  • Interact with other characters to get tips and tricks on advancing.
  • Character creator along with the ability to buy new outfits and models.
  • Many Breakable elements within the world from fences to trees and people?
  • Combo counter when chaining actions together which rewards exp and cash.
  • Has a Forza Horizon feel to it all.
  • The shop is where you go in order to buy new Lego characters and Vehicle models.
  • Tight controls.
  • The map fills in you find events and races.
  • Mark the map with a custom pin to have it show on your screen when driving.
  • Fully voiced characters.
  • S.T.U.D is your Ai companion that doles out advice as you play.
  • Two views – close and far.
  • Unlock and use fast travel points.
  • You can fire behind.
  • Earn EXP and level up to unlock new events and championships.
  • Optional side quests can be taken on from certain characters.
  • Earn EXP just by discovering landmarks and places of interest.
  • The load-out lets you change what vehicles spawn in each race/terrain type. You can have multiple load-outs.
  • Each car has unique stats and handling.
  • Handy tight turning button so you can turn quicker.
  • Win new cars by beating Rivals in events.
  • Turbo starts are a thing if you can time it.
  • Win perks from races and you can equip only a couple of them depending on your rank.
  • Car creation lets you go as basic or as deep as you would like, you can set the baseline stats along with engine and horn sounds.
  • Test track allows you to have a run out with new Creations and try them with power-ups.
  • Weeds slow you down big time, unlock the lawnmower, and clear the weed patches to have them gone! Also, they regrow as crystals that give boost and health making races easier.
  • Each map has its own percentage completion.
  • The mini-games mode allows you to replay over and over the mini-games you do in the story mode and it’s usually Wave based.
  • Four biomes to unlock and explore – Turbo, Acres, Hauntsborough, prospect Valley, and Big Butte County.
  • Quick abandon and restart buttons for every event and race in the game.
  • The events around the world are where you go for variety and fun missions with gems such as golf, pushing gold nuggets around, Drift challenges, picking up cows, or taking back items from Dolphins.

LEGO 2K Drive Review

LEGO 2K Drive Review Cons:

  • Cannot rebind controls.
  • Drifting takes a bit of getting used to with its holding a button down to drift.
  • The initial Learning curve as to what all the power-ups do.
  • In-app purchases for in-game currency.
  • Very basic character creator.
  • No difficulty.
  • The first race is very overwhelming with a lot going on and it’s all very tight-knit.
  • The creation stiff is not as clear and easy to use as it should be.
  • Cannot compare cars easily in the load-out menu.
  • Not actually sure what half the stats mean in the load-out menu.
  • The story mode doesn’t feel cohesive and together.
  • The progress loop is the same for every map and every driver rank.
  • They pad out the championships with time-consuming Wave-based events.
  • The Ai can hit you and you go flying and usually out of the race. Doesn’t happen all the time.
  • The mini-game parts in the story are tedious and not fun to play.

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LEGO 2K Drive Review

LEGO 2K Drive:

Official website.

Developer: Visual Concepts Entertainment Studios

Publisher: 2K Games

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PlayStation

  • 8/10
    Graphics - 8/10
  • 8/10
    Sound - 8/10
  • 8/10
    Accessibility - 8/10
  • 8/10
    Length - 8/10
  • 9/10
    Fun Factor - 9/10
8.2/10

Summary

A competent racing game, Lego 2K Drive Combines the frantic racing of a Sonic Team racing or Mario Kart racing with the fundamentals of a Lego game. I love how you can just straight up build anything you want and drive it in events and the world, I mean we are talking proper Wacky Racing levels of crazy builds. The racing is good and is very frantic, especially since it fills the screen with carnage and color but it does take some getting used to, the drifting is held the brake-down type affair and for me, I found that really tricky to pull off on tighter corners but it works. Outside of racing you get the whacky fun nature of Lego games with a huge variety of Mini games like bowling, picking up cows, flying around collecting items, and swimming with the dolphins, and honestly, it does a really good job of breaking up the racing and because you can still earn exp and level up, it gives you more freedom to play and level up how you want and takes a lot of stress and need to progress out of it. Let’s get into the hates now, I really did not like how the second to last event of a major championship or unlocking a new map would be this time-consuming and not fun Wave-based tower defend style game. You have to drive between 3 posts and run over all aliens or skeletons to stop them from blowing them up. The idea is simple but the actual playing of it is slow boring and not fun. I just didn’t get on with that or the general flow of progression in terms of racing. Driving around the world, building stuff, and finding the many Collectibles is the much better part and honestly better way to play the game. You also earn exp for just discovering events, points of interest, and areas so you are always progressing even if you are just driving around. Lego 2K Drive is not the most polished of driving games but it is a solid addition to the Lego universe and an absolute must for Lego fans young and old.

Jim Smale

Gaming since the Atari 2600, I enjoy the weirdness in games counting Densha De Go and RC De Go as my favourite titles of all time. I prefer gaming of old where buying games from a shop was a thing, Being social in person was a thing. Join me as I attempt to adapt to this new digital age!