LEGO® 2K Drive Nintendo Switch

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LEGO 2K Drive will launch with incredible value, with a vast trove of playable (and replayable!) content that will continue to grow post-launch with four unique, Drive Pass Seasons***. Additional details on the Drive Pass Seasons can be found here. The child-friendly atmosphere of the game remains its strongest point. The vibrant LEGO worlds and adorable characters create an enchanting setting for young players. The controls, although relatively easy to learn, do not compensate for the technical shortcomings that become apparent during gameplay. Even with powerful PC hardware, the game tends to run rather poorly, resulting in subpar performance that detracts from the overall experience. Romano, Sal (March 23, 2023). "LEGO 2K Drive announced for PS5, Xbox Series, PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC". Gematsu . Retrieved June 30, 2023. The worlds aren’t huge, but they’re genuinely beautiful. Big Butte County is a desert landscape complete with looming sandstone buttes, farms (complete with Lego cows, pigs and horses) and quaint towns. Prospecto Valley is a mining region with cowboy towns surrounded by woodlands. My favourite though is Hauntsborough, a spooky theme park world filled with giant spiders, creepy castles and dark, ominous tunnels. It’s a shame we didn’t see more landscapes like this one, embracing the fantasy element of the Lego universe. It's all about Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom at the moment for most Switch owners, but there are still plenty of other new releases to enjoy.

Colourful, varied biomes filled with charm and personality; Nails the fundamentals of its driving mechanics; Uninterrupted driving creates a great sense of constant momentum; Creation tools boast a vast array of options and are a lot of fun to use. Get behind the wheel and gear up for tons of open-world exploration and thrilling races! Take on the exciting Story mode, jump into a single race or Cup Series tourneys, and let loose in off-the-wall minigames. Master the art of drifting, boosting, and using power-ups to defeat opponents! RACE FOR THE SKY TROPHY

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Whilst we will do everything we can to meet the delivery times above, there may be factors outside of our control and we cannot guarantee delivery within this time frame. The problem with one Mario Kart per console is that console generations typically last 5-8 years, but players are going to get bored long before that point. Usually for more popular IPs you'd want something about every 3-5 years. When Nintendo had separate handhelds and consoles, that wasn't an issue because they could stagger handheld and console Mario Karts to fill in the gaps but now that they have one hybrid device, the one Mario Kart per console rule is a drag on the series (doubly so when the most recent entry is a PORT and we've been playing the same entry for 10 years, which is by far the longest drought in series history). They need something to fill in the gaps, and a new style of gameplay is a great way to do that without cannibalizing the main entries. No one's going to question whether having both a 2D Mario and a 3D Mario or a 2D Metroid and a Metroid Prime would cannibalize each other because they're both very different flavors of Mario and Metroid respectively. Mario Kart needs something similar to fill in the gaps.

Yes, spinoffs of spinoffs have happened before if the spinoff itself is popular enough. Can't think of any video game examples off the top of my head, but in TV, NCIS is a spinoff of JAG and has itself received multiple spinoffs (NCIS:LA and NCIS:NO). Mario Kart is in a similar situation that despite being a spinoff, it's still so immensely popular that it itself would be deserving of a spinoff or subseries. So far, there's a lot to like here. It might not be pole position in the world of party racers, but the open world promises many hours of entertainment — just so long as it is efficiently streamlined for Nintendo's system. Story mode follows your journey from rookie racer to famous champion as you compete against a series of charismatic rivals. With each victory, you’ll work your way up the ranks to take on the infamous Shadow Z. The other 6/10 are spread across different genres (you have 1 racing game, 1 life sim game, 1 fighting game, 1 party game, 1 2D platformer, and 1 exercise game). Now granted genres are a bit hard to define and cross over with each other (after all the 4 open world/sandbox games could be considered different genres themselves as 1 is an action/adventure, 1 is a 3D platformer, and 2 are RPGs), but the 6 non-open world/sandbox games all play radically different from each other (at best, you could connect a few of them for being multiplayer games, but even that feels like a bit of a stretch and even then, there aren't more than 4 of those) whereas the open world games have a bit more in common with each other. And again, you're missing the context without digging deeper into the data. BotW is the best selling Zelda game. Mario Odyssey is the best selling 3D Mario. SwSh and SV are some of the best selling Pokemon games. So Mario Kart going open world could make it the best selling Mario Kart game.From an incredible team of genre experts at Visual Concepts, LEGO 2K Drive combines the best elements of open world driving and fast-paced competitive racing, along with a diverse vehicle customization system. Made to be played solo or together, the game offers robust co-op and thrilling competitive multiplayer with crossplay, allowing players to group up together across platforms, on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store.* Online, local co-op, and local wireless play with friends is also available on Nintendo Switch. More information on game modes, ways to play together, customization, and more, can be found here. Additionally, this would be a very different type of open world. You don't really see a lot of open world racing games, usually it's action/adventures, platformers, and RPGs that go open world. You would interact with the world different on a kart, so it wouldn't quite feel and play the same as your average open world game. There’s some egregious pop-in, and textures are worse than a tree in Galar. The actual transformations of the vehicles look great when you can make them out, and it’s lovely seeing the vehicle you make on the screen, but if you have any other way of playing this game, maybe consider playing it on PS5 or something similar. Certain features and online play require Internet connection and 2K Account. Online console play requires paid subscription

Story mode follows your journey from rookie racer to famous champion as you compete against a series of charismatic rivals. With each victory, you'll work your way up the ranks to take on the infamous Shadow Z. OPEN-WORLD EXPLORATION LEGO 2K Drive is due out on the Nintendo Switch next month and if you were planning to add a physical copy to your collection, you might want to read on. You're really stretching it at this point, it's actually really funny seeing the mental gymnastics you're trying to pull off. Trying to claim that a Pokemon and Mario game don't play radically different from each other, or a Mario game and Zelda game don't play radically different from each other. Mario Odyssey and Pokemon Sword and Shield are about as different as it gets. What's next, The Witcher 3 and Mario Odyssey are similar games because you can roam in open environments??? What point does that even prove??? Your point about data is flawed because on the topic of MARIO, Mario Odyssey may be the best selling 3D mainline Mario game, but there are 5 other Mario games that have sold better than Odyssey and none of those 5 are open world titles, 3 2D platformers and 2 Mario Kart games. I sound like a broken record when I say this, NOT EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE OPEN WORLD. Just because it works well for another series of games, does not mean it will automatically work for every series. You have no data. The data that is there is Mario Kart 8 DX has outsold every single Switch game and it is not even an open world game! It is hypocritical to say I need more data to conclude that it would sell worse if it were open world and then turn around and say it would sell better if it were open world while bringing up irrelevant points. Regan, Tom (March 28, 2023). " 2K Lego Drive 's developer on aiming for IP collaborations and 'years of sequels' ". Video Games Chronicle . Retrieved March 29, 2023. a b Dinsdale, Ryan (March 24, 2023). " LEGO 2K Drive Is an Open World AAA Racing Game Coming This May". IGN . Retrieved March 29, 2023.IGN gave LEGO 2K Drive an 8 out of 10 - calling it "one part The Crew 2, one part Mario Kart, and one thousand parts... LEGO Parts": Finally, even if you can put up with the aggressive monetization, Lego 2K Drive looks so underwhelming on Switch. I make apologies for the Nintendo Switch often. It’s a handheld platform for children, and the fact it can run indie games well is a huge boon to those releases, and Nintendo, with its fantastic releases that balance graphics and framerate, is a master of its craft. Bolt_Strike Yeah, not looking past the lootbox and mobile controls though in a game that will inevitably get shut down because it's an online service title. Hard to ignore it now that Nintendo is literally facing a lawsuit over it! 8 DX does not have an actual shop, but at least there are no microtransactions and I can play all of the courses whenever I want. Mario Kart 8 has much superior gameplay. It doesn't matter how many ramps you add to a course or the virtual numbers attached to a thing you do, Mario Kart 8 DX plays much better than Mario Kart Tour and is a better game than Mario Kart Tour. I actually do believe DLC can be more fair than not, though. For those that love the game, let people buy DLC for more content, more to do. It's worth more to those players than others who will buy the smaller game and not even finish it. It's more fair that way. (Diehard fans of games they get hundreds of hours out of will often complain how much they have to pay, but, for some reason not defend those who buy it full price and only play half the game)

LEGO 2K Drive got announced for the Nintendo Switch earlier this week and if you have been wondering about whether or not there'll be an option to spend money on the game, it seems there will be.Big picture you don't really "need" anything, and Nintendo has already done several games they didn't "need" to do (it made sequels to BotW and Splatoon 2, for example). They pay attention to whether or not it's beneficial, and there's definitely an argument to be made that it's beneficial financially and creatively. With as much as Mario Kart sells, having more frequent releases could definitely benefit them financially, having a new flavor of Mario Kart could benefit them creatively, and making said flavor a more open world variety seems primed to benefit them in both ways. After you’ve submitted a vehicle, it will go through LEGO 2K Drive’s moderation process; you should get a notification if your vehicle has successfully passed through this process within a day or so and it’ll show up in the My Hub tab within the Creators Hub. It’s always frustrating when you want to like a game, especially when you can see something worthwhile buried underneath. I’m a huge Lego fan and still a dab hand at Lego Racers on the Playstation 1, so I really wish this was better. While driving feels good, and the building mechanics are great, there’s so much jank around the edges that it’s tough to recommend Lego 2K Drivers on Switch to anyone who has any other console.