LEGO 2K Drive Reviews

LEGO 2K Drive is ranked in the 51st percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
5 / 10
Jun 12, 2023

LEGO 2K Drive is a failed spiritual sequel to LEGO Racers. You'll have fun, provided you're unpretentious and don't mind the repetitiveness and limited number of races you must repeatedly win to play out the story. If you play as a parent with a child, you can have an enjoyable time together. However, the absence of sharing your own creations among other players or racing with them in multiplayer is disappointing. Hardly anyone plays the multiplayer game, and local multiplayer in a split-screen is currently unplayable. The title offers nice graphics in a LEGO world style, imaginative power-ups, and car models but hides most of them behind microtransactions.

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May 15, 2023

There is a lot here for a young kid to enjoy, especially one who is tuned into Lego. The tracks have solid variety, both in terms of aesthetics, obstacles, and various challenges (like lacking destructible items to fill the boost bar), but it barely matters when you'll win every race until you hit a progression wall that asks you to grind out cash generation or pay to skip it, and then start winning again. It's creative, but it's also a bit of a mess. Lego 2K Drive mixes Forza Horizon and Mario Kart together, but it's not as good as either of them, and doesn't bring much new to the table either. There are building blocks here for Lego to use for future IP-less games, but this doesn't quite put them all together in a way that will interest anyone who isn’t still in primary school.

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5 / 10.0
May 29, 2023

Lego 2K Drive is not necessarily a bad game. It's just so unengaging that it starts to feel somewhat pointless. There's nothing you haven't seen before and done better in other games. The driving itself can be fun, but it's overshadowed by the dull and repetitive content.

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May 18, 2023

Conversely, Lego 2K Drive has multiple currencies, and playing through the campaign unlocks frustratingly little. As such, players are artificially restrained while frequently being prodding toward spending real money. And the unfortunate result of that is that Lego 2K Drive is, at best, a competent arcade racing game let down by its difficulty and microtransactions.

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59 / 100
May 25, 2023

A fun, if repetitive, kart racer whose charms are sullied by its predatory microtransactions targeted right at young children.

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Jul 8, 2023

Lego 2K Drive is a frequently fun experience, thanks to its host of exciting race tracks, expansive open world and fully customizable vehicles. Unfortunately, the game is hindered by egregious microtransactions.

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Jun 7, 2023

With racing trophies, mini-games and access to online racing, the content is far from in short supply. But it's the saturation effect, derived from the very accessibility or ease with which missions are completed and other times by their rudimentary nature that makes the experience less remarkable. In constant walking from one side to the other, it is in the moments of construction that a car is produced to taste. If other games of this toy brand left good memories after landing the controller, this driving title, while interesting, is not particularly surmountable in some area. It works well and manages to reach a wide audience, but you quickly forget the time spent on the road, leveling up.

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6 / 10
May 23, 2023

LEGO 2K Drive is a terrific addition to the LEGO video game universe, with a bright and breezy atmosphere, super fun races and a fantastic creator mode with classic LEGO jokes aplenty for all ages, sadly tainted by egregious and forced microtransactions which are all too easy to consider thanks to the slow progress of earning in-game currency. For a game at full AAA price of £70, it’s difficult to justify why they were included at all and ultimately brings down the entire experience.

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May 15, 2023

The open world format really lets LEGO 2K Drive down. It’s disappointing that all those development resources went into a pointless “story” when the developers could have focused on giving players more awesome tracks and cups to enjoy. The underlying racing mechanics are so very entertaining. Instead, though, we have a familiar story: a massive space to “explore” but no meaningful reason to do so. Developers, if all you’re going to do with open worlds is dump busywork on players and use it to pad out the number of hours it’ll take them to finish the game, then find a different format. Not everything needs an open world, and I would argue that arcade “kart” racers are a good example of that.

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6 / 10.0
May 18, 2023

There's fun to be had with LEGO 2K Drive's snappy driving mechanics, vibrant biomes, and creation and customization mechanics, but issues such as its inconsistent AI, dull open world implementation, and somewhat grindy progression hold the experience back.

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6 / 10
May 30, 2023

LEGO 2K Drive had crazy potential, and we still believe in it, but this first episode doesn't fully express it yet. The game is beautiful, lively and fun to play even if the circuits are disappointed. But one of the biggest flaw comes from the microtransactions. A promising start.

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6 / 10
May 26, 2023

Lego 2K Drive is a racing game that so nearly reaches its potential, but it steps on a few stray bricks along the way. The core driving feels good, the Story mode has plenty to do, and the creation tools are legitimately impressive. However, it's let down by technical shortcomings, a lack of sharing options, and somewhat slimy monetisation. The foundations of a really great arcade racer are here, but poor optimisation in this Switch version and certain design decisions mean it's unlikely to overtake the competition.

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May 16, 2023

Lego 2K Drive's chaotic racing and inventive story mode are let down by irresponsible microtransactions.

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May 18, 2023

The open world racer where beautiful environments are crammed with delightfully destructible Lego goodies, will have kids smiling while they play

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May 26, 2023

All in all, LEGO 2K Drive satisfies any craving for brick-racing that you may have had in the past with A+ class but still is rough around the edges because of its microtransaction system.

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6 / 10.0
May 17, 2023

LEGO 2K Drive is an ideal game for the little ones in the house, but it doesn't reach the level of other titles in the franchise.

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6 / 10
May 19, 2023

The offensive microtransactions aren't a surprise but the tedious open world structure obscures what is a surprisingly nuanced and technical arcade racer.

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Eurogamer
Top Critic
May 26, 2023

A Legofied open-world racer of bright humour and drift-heavy handling, scuffed by baggage and busywork.

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6.5 / 10.0
May 31, 2023

At first glance, LEGO 2K Drive is exactly what you would expect from a game with this title: an open world racing game in which the vehicles, characters and large parts of the game world are built from the well-known toy blocks. The concept will be familiar to people who played the LEGO Racer series in the early 2000s.

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6.5 / 10.0
May 19, 2023

The vibrant open world of LEGO 2K Drive features solid racing mechanics that give the game a feeling of fun controlled chaos but grind and troublesome monetization plague this child-friendly game.

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