Lego 2K Drive

With the right Lego and a healthy dose of imagination, you can build almost anything. Pour a pile of these coloured bricks out on the carpet, ...

While the core kart racing felt merely serviceable when compared to the masterful drifting of the moustachioed plumber, I still came away impressed with the sheer amount of fun that Lego 2K Drive had to offer. [Forza Horizon](https://www.nme.com/en_au/games/forza-horizon)’, the racer sets you loose on a series of standalone islands, leaving you – and up to four friends online – free to cruise around these themed playgrounds causing brick-busting mayhem. Forza Horizon X Sonic All Stars Racing is a fairly strong proposition, and while not entirely original, manages to feel like nothing else out there on the market. [Call of Duty](https://www.nme.com/en_au/games/call-of-duty) or [FIFA](https://www.nme.com/en_au/games/fifa), Lego video games have long been synonymous with enjoyable licensed action-platformers. The sheer number of different varieties of bricks, decorative options and colours made it easy to suddenly build roofs and extended platforms on my speed boat or just add weird bits of architecture to my quad bike. Still, the racing is competent enough, and much like in the blue blur’s seemingly abandoned kart series, younger players will get a thrill simply from watching their vehicle change from road to sea as the race progresses. Doing away with cinematic collaborations, Lego 2K Drive shuns licensed fare like Star Wars and Lord Of The Rings in favour of muscling in on [Mario Kart’s](https://www.nme.com/en_au/games/mario-kart) tarmac. At any point during the story mode or in the main menu, you’re free to create the vehicles of your dreams. Going wheels-on with the game at 2K’s offices, the first surprises about Lego 2K Drive is its ambition. Pour a pile of these coloured bricks out on the carpet, and the resulting mess offers up a world of infinite possibilities. Yanking the toy chest from publisher Warner Brothers, [2K](https://www.nme.com/en_au/brands/2k-games) has been handed the keys to the bricky Kingdom. With the right Lego and a healthy dose of imagination, you can build almost anything.

Lego 2K Drive is an approachable open-world racing game in the vein of Forza Horizon with a surprising amount of depth.

It feels good to drive, boost, and drift off-road, on roads, and in the water, both in vehicles the game gives players and in ones players construct themselves. I also had the chance to drive around in multiplayer, seeing other players move around as they completed stunts and challenges and seamlessly starting races with them. [Forza Horizon 5](https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/forza-horizon-5-review/) and The Crew have more realistic aesthetics and race types, so these kart-racer-like game systems help Lego 2K Drive stand out in that space. “The most important experience is to get your game into the hands of the player as quickly as possible and watch them play,” Silva says. I mainly went off-road in this biome as I completed races and earned the currency needed to level up. Various challenges and races are all scattered around its open-world areas, and I just had to drive up to them to start. In structure, Lego 2K Drive is much more similar to the Forza Horizon games. “We did our best to tilt those more realistic environment pieces toward a Lego look, so everything is large, square, and blocky to help it fit in our universe,” Silva tells Digital Trends. Boosting is vital to success, and I had to gain that boost by drifting and smashing through all of the Lego objects in the game’s world. Creative Director Brian Silva discussed how tricky balancing this was with Digital Trends, ultimately comparing the game’s look to playing with Legos in your backyard. Whether you’re a fan of this new wave of open-world racing games or want to build and then race the weirdest Lego creations possible, you’ll be thoroughly entertained by Lego 2K Drive. My hands-on time with Lego 2K Drive encompassed the game’s opening hours.

Building a new LEGOcy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YhIrHH3p-k If you cast your mind back to February 2022, you might...

This is not the mechanically-accurate sports sims that we are used to from 2K, nor is it the comedy-filled simplicity of a typical Lego game. The races can be chaotic and the biomes are sizeable enough that any large amounts of pop-in or drops in frame rate run the risk of harming the experience. Of course, perhaps the biggest question for us lies in how a game of this size is going to run on Switch. Equally impressive is how Visual Concepts manages to walk (or should that be drive?) the line between being a 2K and a Lego title. The range of options here is massive as you are faced with over 1000 different bricks, wheels, and bases to build any type of vehicle that you can imagine. At this stage, your journey is very clearly laid out for you by your mentor and AI assistant as you move between races, tasks, and challenges all with the goal of getting you used to the various styles of play that the game has to offer. The racing itself is a perfectly good time with the boost and drift mechanics really coming into their own once you manage to get your head around them. If you want nothing more than a competitive driving experience then there are tasks a-plenty, but one of the most enjoyable elements of this open-world setup is the process of getting there, driving around the cities, and stumbling across new areas along the way. The races themselves take a small amount of time to master as you get your head around the best moments to use boosts, how to fully utilise a jump, and what perks each of the collectible items offers you. Those with a good memory (or those who have quickly googled it since reading the last sentence) might recall rumours of a Lego-themed racing game being in development from this newly-formed collaboration and all of the subsequent questions of what a game like this would even look like. Not that staying on the track is actually all that important, as the game employs a terrain-hopping mechanic that lets your vehicle seamlessly change between a street car, off-road buggy, and boat as you navigate tracks across tarmac, dirt, and water respectively. From what we have seen so far (from an Xbox build of the game, we should add), it seems that this balance has been well met.

The game has power-ups, such as homing missiles, speed boosts, cloaking devices, and spider webs that act like Mario Kart's ink stains, obscuring the screen ...

The game's executive producer, Mark Pierce, wanted to bring the arcade-style racing games' design mentality from the 1980s to modern open-world racing games. 2K Games and Lego have collaborated to produce Lego 2K Drive, an open-world racing game that combines the discoverable challenges and explorable world of Forza Horizon with the playful handling, weapons, and power-ups of Mario Kart. [Mark Pierce](/topic/mark-pierce), the game's executive producer, started his career at [Atari](/topic/atari)in the late 1980s, working on classic racers such as RoadBlasters, [Road Riot](/topic/road-riot)and [San Francisco Rush](/topic/san-francisco-rush). The game features mini-figures that offer challenges and cut-scenes that capture the humorous tone of the Lego franchise. [Visual Concepts](/topic/visual-concepts), it blends the discovery and exploration of [Forza Horizon](/topic/forza-horizon)with the entertaining weapons and power-ups of [Mario Kart](/topic/mario-kart). Lego 2K Drive takes place in the colorful world of Bricklandia, where players unlock races, tasks, and missions as they explore Lego towns, canyons, farms, and castles.

LEGO 2K Drive offers players a little bit of everything: intense racing, easygoing exploration, fun multiplayer, in-depth customization, and more.

We also played a few traditional races in this mode, which elevated the skills of our rivals for more enticing gameplay, and there was a game mode that saw us all racing around tight corners in a city to get to certain locations first. Another quest we couldn't complete mentioned that there was a jetpack we could eventually unlock, which Silva explained added a certain verticality and [Metroidvania element](https://gamerant.com/resident-evil-9-metroidvania-elements-focus-good/) to the game. At the same time, there is also some Cup Series available in the menu players can tackle to keep the races going, and there are three classes of vehicles to go through: Class C, Class B, and Class A. If they want to prove they are the best racer, that's covered, and if someone wants to look in every nooky and cranny, they'll be rewarded. If they want to push the boundaries of its customization, the Garage has that covered. That's because the game is designed to allow players to do whatever it is they want to do, whether that be focusing on the story, simply exploring the various biomes, engaging in multiplayer, and much, much more. While each wants to win the Sky Trophy, it's all for the love of racing—the only real enemy is Shadow Z, who is a cheater and general ne'er-do-well. [the LEGO humor](https://gamerant.com/minecraft-lego-travellers-tales/) that all fans can love and enjoy, while keeping the general tone light and silly. LEGO 2K Drive's story will see players racing against their rivals and getting into the Sky Grand Prix, but each rival will have their own theme and racetrack throughout the game's biomes. In it, players attempt to win the Sky Grand Prix, defeating rivals and the villainous Shadow Z along the way, but that's either a straight shot or a detour for players. Creative director Brian Silva told Game Rant that this title wasn't necessarily inspired by it but the studio was aware of it, and it is a new game filled with nostalgia nonetheless. That may seem like an oxymoron, but the truth is that there is so much from LEGO's history here that everything feels familiar the minute it is booted up.

The game features a car-building element with extensive customization and various modes that interact with the environment. Racing through courses, players can ...

[2K Games](https://hypebeast.com/tags/2k-games) recently has now shared an announcement trailer that reveals an open-world concept centered around the iconic building blocks. Gameplay features ongoing service with the “Year 1 Drive Pass,” along with online and local split-screen races. The game features a car-building element with extensive customization and various modes that interact with the environment.

Driving fans can enjoy a driving experience like no other with LEGO 2K Drive, and we've got all the information you need to know about it.

[Starfield](https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/starfield-release-date-leaks-platforms-486969/) [Crash Team Rumble](https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/crash-team-rumble-release-date-gameplay-trailer-2007145/) [Dragon Age 4](https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/dragon-age-4-gameplay-trailers-solas-1511910/) [Wonder Woman](https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/wonder-woman-game-release-date-trailer-platforms-1717804/) [Wolverine](https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/insomniac-games-wolverine-release-date-trailer-platforms-more-1649953/) [Spider-Man 2](https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/marvels-spider-man-2-release-date-platforms-1650078/)

Game Rant speaks with LEGO 2K Drive creative director Brian Silva about the game's various features, from customization to biomes.

The ultimate goal of the game is to get to the sky tournament. If you want to play through the whole game with the starter car, you can do that. A: We wanted to obviously keep the story very light and very silly. A: The game is developed in such a way that you can play it how you want. If you want more armor, you can tweak it however you want, or you can ignore that entirely and just drive around in your little starter car. We also have a perk system where you can add different perks to the game which add abilities to your vehicle. If you want to spend hours and hours in the garage building like anything you see behind me here, you can actually build anything brick by brick in the garage. What can you say about that approach and how genuinely crazy can someone get with the customization? It doesn't matter, you can really build anything you want to build. A: It's just a matter of playing it and discussing it with the development team over the years of development. Right?' So maybe the jetpacks will help you get up there, or maybe there's something else that will help you get up there. I wouldn't say we drew inspiration from it, but I think it was in the back of our minds that people really liked that game.