LEGO car game puts new spin on brick building

There’s a brand new LEGO online game on the block, opening the door to a world of creativeness and creativity in digital type.

LEGO 2K Drive‘s builders say they’re providing an “anything you can imagine” strategy to designing autos fabricated from LEGO bricks, very similar to the actual factor.

Pieces you acquire all through the sport’s world can be utilized to construct automobiles, boats and extra within the recreation’s specifically designed “Garage”.

David Miska and Jacob Longazo make up a part of the Visual Concepts growth staff, 9news.com.au sat down with them to study all in regards to the recreation’s detailed strategy to constructing with LEGO.

“It’s the ultimate Lego vehicle builder,” stated Miska, the sport’s Design Director.

The whole staff at Visual Concepts are big LEGO followers and say they’ve poured a whole lot of love into this new launch.

“It goes way beyond just driving and racing. It makes people think about driving in a different way,” he stated.

“We took a page out of the real world, trying to emulate the way you look at the physical set and building it and, and trying to replicate that in a digital form.”

In LEGO 2K Drive, it isn’t simply automobiles you’ll be able to construct, it is seemingly something you’ll be able to think about.

“I was the LEGO Star Wars Kid,” Lonagzo stated.

“And you can bet for sure that when I get my hands on the retail copy I’m going to be making some Star Wars… We’ve had some of our internal people make pod racers!” he stated.

Despite its vibrant and childlike enchantment, the builders stress that LEGO 2K Drive is for all age teams.

“We’re creating a game that we want to be accessible to young kids but also for an older audience, or even people that are really skilled at playing video games that find something to master in our game,” Miska stated, making observe of the sport’s sandbox and open-world.

“The open world allows you to do whatever you want, which kind of talks to the more casual gamers and slightly above the others,” he stated.

While there are a whole bunch of distinctive LEGO bricks within the recreation, sure bricks will not make you go sooner or provide you with particular bonuses, the builders say doing so would take away from the sport’s creativity. 

“Very early on we asked ourselves, ‘How do we make it a competitive game without hindering creativity?’ Because if certain pieces or certain constructions gave you an advantage, everybody would be building the exact same vehicle,” Miska stated.

“And we think the most important thing for us is for people to be able to show off how creative they are. So the way you build your vehicle is not really going to affect your performance.”

While there are not any “special ability” bricks, there are some items gamers can come throughout that can change the burden and alter the pace and acceleration of the autos.

In saying that, gamers can even organically develop sooner the extra they play and stage up their character. 

“We’re making a driving game, and that distinction is very important because the vehicle in our game is not just something – it’s not a tool that you use to go from A to B, it’s a full-fledged character,” stated Miska.

Longazo instructed 9news.com.au that every one autos within the recreation may be recreated in actual life if the participant has the correct items. All LEGO bricks featured within the recreation are the actual deal.

“I want to build that. So if I go to the instruction system, and I have all the pieces I can just follow along and build it myself,” he stated.

Future plans to introduce sharing of digital instruction booklets between gamers have additionally been confirmed by the builders, which is one thing I’ll eagerly hold an eye fixed out for.

LEGO 2K Drive is coming to Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch and PC on May 19.