![]() ![]() ![]() Completionists will have a challenge on their hands if they want that illustrious 100%–something which, with other LEGO games, is more a reward for time and patience, rather than luck or frustration. However, to get a gold medal, these can be often more brutal than they deserve to be, especially for casual or younger audiences. By and large, challenges are fun, ranging from standard races and point-to-point scrambles to silly jokes (crash into a wall in under three seconds) and stipulation-based challenges (don’t touch water don’t crash through fences). From those first moments in your first map, Turbo Acres, it does its best to encourage you to try your luck at anything you come across. Soon, it throws a remarkable number of story missions, quests, challenges, and collectibles your way. Your car automatically transforms and adapts to the surface, and it feels like a platformer at heart–nailing jumps over hills and between obstacles is intuitive, and feels fantastic when you succeed in grabbing a hard-to-reach item, or saving yourself a huge detour by skipping up a cliff face. 2K The wider worldīetween races, LEGO 2K Drive presents you with an open world to explore at your leisure. Instead, these bonuses seem limited to helping you succeed in the world map’s many, many challenges.ĭon't expect to always finish races in one piece. While your choice of car can complement your personal driving style, there’s no significant edge over other racers. If you make an absolute clown of yourself on a corner–a pretty easy thing to do, given that drifting can be limited on tight corners, and the quick-turn ability is ridiculously sharp, with no middle ground between the two–opposition is kind enough to wait for you. Shortcuts are usually a short-term solution even huge leads at the end of a race can be reduced to milliseconds within moments. I’ve destroyed the same driver three times in a single lap and they’ll still be ahead at the line. You’d think that combat would be a good way to gain ground, but while weapons are fun, destroying (“bricking”) enemies doesn’t have a tangible effect on their performance–they reappear within seconds and, more often than not, take the lead again. Any time you gain a significant distance over other drivers–and even if you’re boosting the entire time–you can see other racers implausibly gaining on you via the minimap. Chances are that you won’t get within striking distance of them until at least halfway into the contest.Įven when you do get ahead, LEGO 2K Drive has rampant rubberbanding. 2Kįrom the start–even if you boost off the line using timing straight from Mario Kart 8–your rival will always gain a huge, improbable lead over the rest of the field. Are you lazy like Garfield? Take shortcuts to overtake the other racers with the Spring! Race your friends in local mode or online, with up to eight players on 16 iconic circuits from the world of Garfield.Racetrack design is largely excellent, with a nice mix of car types. Use crazy bonus objects, like the Pillow or the Magic Wand, to gain an edge and get over the finishing line first. DESCRIPTION: Garfield, the famous lasagna-loving cat is back to take on Jon, Odie and company in a no-holds-barred racing game! Choose your character and kart according to their characteristics and your driving style, get off the starting line first and control skids to outrun your opponents. ![]()
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