Then again, not every comparison is a damning one. Here's a 'directors cut' trailer for Lego 2K Drive to show it in action. Instead, the web is spring-loaded and instant, cocooning them in bad handling until they hop it off. It's a spin on the Blooper, the wide-eyed squid that squirts ink on your opponent's screen but it lacks the slippery humour, the slight taunting pause before the Blooper gets down to his murky work, letting your enemy know that they have been suckered just before it happens. Take the spiderweb, which fastens onto foes and causes them to come unstuck. The weapons that you collect during races, for example, lack the wit of those in Mario Kart. This is a wise decision, kitbashing with the choicest of kits, but it invites harsh contrast. What are those parts, exactly? For 2K Drive, developer Visual Concepts has looked to the likes of Forza Horizon, Mario Kart, and Crash Team Racing. Availability: Out now on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Switch, and PC ( Steam, Epic Games).If only it were more than the sum of its parts. Not so in Lego 2K Drive, where life is bright, pre-assembled, and anything but still. After you have plugged it all together, and you're left with your Death Star, your Batmobile, or whatever, they wind up trophied on the shelf, to be lightly trimmed with dust. In real life, the joy (or at least the contended, driven quiet) is in the building. The aim of any Lego video game, surely, is to provide us with something to do with our completed creations. It is, in fact, a video game - an open-world racer, richly encrusted with bricks - but its mission is no less in the spirit of giving. "Lego 2K Drive" sounds like a charity event: a two-kilometre fun run perhaps, sponsored by, or with the goal of donating, Lego. A Legofied open-world racer of bright humour and drift-heavy handling, scuffed by baggage and busywork.
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