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LEGO 2K Drive
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LEGO 2K Drive is a whimsical kart racer whose charms are sullied by tedious open world structure, offensive microtransactions (come on, it’s a LEGO game), and repetition.
Game Info
Welcome to Bricklandia, home of a massive open-world LEGO driving adventure. Race anywhere, play with anyone, build your dream rides, and defeat a cast of wild racing rivals for the coveted Sky Trophy! In LEGO 2K Drive, your awesome transforming vehicle gives you the freedom to speed seamlessly across riveting racetracks, off-road terrain, and open waters. Explore the vast world of Bricklandia, show off your driving skills, and build vehicles brick-by-brick!
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Average Score
Total Reviews: 84
RELEASE DATES:
GENRES:
- Adventure, Racing
DEVELOPER(S):
- Visual Concepts
PUBLISHER(S):
- 2K Games
SERIES/FRANCHISE:
- LEGO
GAME MODES:
- Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player, Split screen
GAME ENGINE:
- Unreal Engine 4
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RATING & REVIEWS
Ratings & Reviews
84
Critic Reviews
73
Average Critic Score
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CRITIC REVIEWS
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High Score
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Median Score
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Low Score
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GameCentral (Metro GameCentral)
May 19, 2023
6/10
The offensive microtransactions aren’t a surprise but the tedious open world structure obscures what is a surprisingly nuanced and technical arcade racer.
Sarah Thwaites (Game Informer)
May 19, 2023
8/10
Lego 2K Drive builds an incredibly inviting world where speed and silliness reign supreme as you race and morph across its delightfully destructible setting. Despite some frustrating mission design and a smattering of bugs, Lego 2K Drive quickly won me over with its absurd narrative full of irreverent dialogue and moreish open-world challenges. If only the specter of microtransactions didn’t loom so large in this kid-friendly game, it would make for an even smoother ride.
Zack Zwiezen (Kotaku)
May 17, 2023
Not Recommended
It’s really a shame that such a lovely and fun open-world sandbox is tied to stuff like a season pass, premium currencies, and expensive in-game purchases. Perhaps 2K will tweak some levers to make it easier to earn and unlock new cars—which would be nice—but until then the specter of greed will always be there, nagging at me as I build, smash, and race.
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Score Ranges
Read the Reviews (84 total)
| Outlet | Author | Score | Date | Quote | Read |
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| Atomix | Alberto Desfassiaux | 83 / 100 | 05-17-2023 | Whit very clears ideas and a ver well made execution, LEGO 2K Drive brings a refreshment for the LEGO games. A wonderful racing game ideal for any kind of player and of course, designed for the most hard core fans of the construction toys. | Read review |
| Attack of the Fanboy | Gordon Bicker | 3 / 5 stars | 05-26-2023 | 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. | Read review |
| BaziCenter | Amir Golkhani | 7 / 10 | 06-11-2023 | Lego 2K Drive is sure fun to play, but paying the full price for a game that doesn’t exactly follow industry standards when it comes to season pass content and in-game purchases might not be a very good idea. | Read review |
| Bazimag | Bahram Bigharaz | 6.5 / 10 | 05-17-2023 | The 2K Lego Drive can become a fun title and a fun experience for all family members, especially young people. Although AI of the game has largely eliminated the challenge of the races, despite this, the matches and the Lego environment are so attractive that you can still enjoy it, but the main problem comes back to the $70 price and the in-game purchases. They have no special justification. In the end, this title should either be offered for free with in-game purchases, or at a price of $40 without in-game purchases. But 2K decided to tag it as a $70 AAA title and pocket more money by opening an in-game store. Thus, if you are interested in experiencing this title, it is better to hold off until the end of the year when the game is on sale. | Read review |
| But Why Tho? | Jason Flatt | 7.5 / 10 | 05-18-2023 | LEGO 2K Drive is classic LEGO fun with hours of exploration and racing to enjoy at any age. | Read review |
| Capsule Computers | Travis Bruno | 6.5 / 10 | 05-19-2023 | 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. | Read review |
| Cerealkillerz | Manuel Barthes | 7.4 / 10 | 05-19-2023 | LEGO Racers was yesterday, LEGO Drive is the future. At least that was the plan of 2K, who together with Lego created a kind of Forza Horizon for the playroom. And that works surprisingly well. Detailed and large worlds, peppered with numerous story and side missions as well as a wealth of challenges and collectibles await diligent explorers. Unfortunately, you have lost sight of what is probably your greatest strength: you are no longer a fun racer. | Read review |
| CGMagazine | Philip Watson | 7.5 / 10 | 05-20-2023 | LEGO 2K Drive is a fun LEGO racing/exploration game that is easy to recommend for all ages. | Read review |
| Checkpoint Gaming | Lisa Pollifroni | 7 / 10 | 05-22-2023 | LEGO 2K Drive is an exciting, colourful romp through the endearing world of BrickLandia where everything is breakable, colourful and the good vibes are turned up to 11. The game shows how LEGO is for everyone no matter your age as I was “oohing” and “ahhing” throughout my playthrough at the care that was put into developing a world not made from LEGO but also interesting to explore and race around in. Though the game does have some issues, such as the not-so-enticing Garage vehicle building mechanics, I had a pretty fun time cruising round’ an open world where everything is awesome. | Read review |
| COGconnected | Alexander Thomas | 78 / 100 | 05-23-2023 | Despite these easily fixable flaws, I haven’t had this much fun in an arcade racer in a long time. It’s a beautiful and smooth experience with clever level design, cheeky humor, and the ability to make some truly spectacular vehicles. With split-screen and online multiplayer, LEGO 2K Drive is a great choice for some late-night gaming shenanigans. | Read review |
| Cultured Vultures | Ashley Bates | 7 / 10 | 05-17-2023 | A solid first lap for a racer that might need a bit more time to hit top speed, LEGO 2K Drive is still worth playing whether you’re young, old or somewhere in between. | Read review |
| Destructoid | CJ Andriessen | 6.5 / 10 | 05-20-2023 | Slightly above average or simply inoffensive. Fans of the genre should enjoy them a bit, but a fair few will be left unfulfilled. | Read review |
| Digital Chumps | Nathaniel Stevens | 7.8 / 10 | 05-20-2023 | If you come in expecting LEGO 2K Driver to fit firmly with previously released LEGO games, then you’re in for a world of disappointment. This is a game of its own based purely on racing and open-world exploration. While not all of it works completely, it does have enough charm and creativity to push it through as a game worth playing. | Read review |
| Digital Trends | Giovanni Colantonio | 3 / 5 stars | 05-16-2023 | Lego 2K Drive’s chaotic racing and inventive story mode are let down by irresponsible microtransactions. | Read review |
| Digitally Downloaded | Matt Sainsbury | 3 / 5 stars | 05-15-2023 | 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. | Read review |
| Echo Boomer | David Fialho | Recommended | 05-27-2023 | LEGO 2K Drive is a solid open-world kart racer that loses its strength when its MMO nature is revealed. | Read review |
| Eurogamer | Josh Wise | Not Recommended | 05-26-2023 | A Legofied open-world racer of bright humour and drift-heavy handling, scuffed by baggage and busywork. | Read review |
| Eurogamer.pt | Vítor Alexandre | 3 / 5 stars | 06-07-2023 | 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. | Read review |
| Everyeye.it | Alessandro Petruio | 7.5 / 10 | 05-19-2023 | Impossible to lie: we had fun and not a little playing LEGO 2K Drive. It is an interesting experiment, with a lot of potential, but also with some limitations. | Read review |
| Expansive | Laurie Jones | Recommended | 05-16-2023 | LEGO 2K Drive takes the best bits of Mario Kart and Forza Horizon then fuses them together in a distinct, everything is awesome kinda way. Whether you’re looking for a fun party game you can play with your mates across formats, an exciting creative tool to exercise your imagination or something to keep you busy for weeks and months ahead, this surprise package is an absolute delight. Slight balance and terrain issues aside, the potential for this is massive and might just be the best ever use of the LEGO license in a video game to date. | Read review |
| Explosion Network | Dylan Blight | 7 / 10 | 05-17-2023 | Lego 2K Drive has thrown many popular arcade racer ideas together and asked, what works? For the Lego fan, this is going to scratch a specific itch. I don’t think we need to see a “Scotty Smash” to fix this build, but to fulfil the desires of Lego racers, young and old; some tweaks will be needed in a sequel. | Read review |
| FingerGuns | Rossko Keniston | 6 / 10 | 05-23-2023 | 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. | Read review |
| Forbes | Matt Gardner | Not Recommended | 05-18-2023 | There’s a season pass in the works, so LEGO 2K Drive’s foundations may be built on and refined–and its creators are certainly committed to adding to it and improving it in the coming months–but right now, it’s lacking those all-important LEGO hallmarks. You can’t fault the passion that clearly went into it, but it needs to evolve to hit the highs that many gamers will expect from it. | Read review |
| Game Informer | Sarah Thwaites | 8 / 10 | 05-19-2023 | Lego 2K Drive builds an incredibly inviting world where speed and silliness reign supreme as you race and morph across its delightfully destructible setting. Despite some frustrating mission design and a smattering of bugs, Lego 2K Drive quickly won me over with its absurd narrative full of irreverent dialogue and moreish open-world challenges. If only the specter of microtransactions didn’t loom so large in this kid-friendly game, it would make for an even smoother ride. | Read review |
| Gameblog | _SutterCane | 6 / 10 | 05-30-2023 | 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. | Read review |
| GamePro | Dennis Michel | 80 / 100 | 05-16-2023 | LEGO 2K Drive, a fun mix of Mario Kart and Forza Horizon, complete with a powerful creative construction kit. | Read review |
| Gamersky | Unknown | 7.7 / 10 | 05-23-2023 | Lego 2K Racing is a family-friendly racing game that appeals to people of all ages. Whether you are new to Lego content or a fan of racing games, you can enjoy the thrill of exploration and racing in this game. | Read review |
| GAMES.CH | Olaf Bleich | 80 / 100 | 05-17-2023 | LEGO 2K Drive is an absolutely enjoyable and family-friendly fun-racer in an open-world-environment. The game transports the LEGO-formula very well and along with its unique humor, LEGO 2K Drive is a racing-game that stands out. However, there are some flaws regarding the open-world-design and the implementation of microtransactions. | Read review |
| GameSpot | Steve Watts | 8 / 10 | 05-23-2023 | The licensed racer from 2K and Visual Concepts is a delightful combination of open-world and kart racers, with tons of Lego customization to boot. | Read review |
| GamesRadar+ | Justin Towell | 4 / 5 stars | 05-15-2023 | LEGO 2K Drive is big, bold, and beautiful, and some of the later races are truly superb. | Read review |
| Gaming Nexus | Jason Dailey | 8 / 10 | 05-19-2023 | The racing is addictive, vehicle customization is deep, the world is charming, and there is much to see and do in LEGO 2K Drive. Some minor speed bumps are baked-in, but they cannot stop this otherwise solid racer. | Read review |
| GamingBolt | Shubhankar Parijat | 6 / 10 | 05-18-2023 | 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. | Read review |
| GamingTrend | Henry Viola | 85 / 100 | 05-22-2023 | In a world filled with bricks and boundless imagination, Lego 2K Drive in Bricklandia shines as an extraordinary racing adventure. With its thrilling races, delightful characters, and captivating visuals, this game takes players on a joyous ride that is sure to put a smile on their faces. Despite its ludicrous microtransactions, the sheer fun and excitement of the kart racing experience, combined with the charming Lego aesthetic, make it a game worth playing. | Read review |
| God is a Geek | Chris White | 7.5 / 10 | 05-17-2023 | LEGO 2K Drive has some impressive features, and while the competitive elements could do with a little work, there’s still fun to be had. | Read review |
| Guardian | Keith Stuart | 3 / 5 stars | 05-18-2023 | The open world racer where beautiful environments are crammed with delightfully destructible Lego goodies, will have kids smiling while they play | Read review |
| Hardcore Gamer | Jeremy Peeples | 4 / 5 stars | 05-15-2023 | Other than having vague missions at times to get to story-essential races, LEGO 2K Drive is an incredible time. | Read review |
| Hey Poor Player | Cory Clark | 4 / 5 stars | 05-19-2023 | Sometimes, as a gamer, you long for a game that you can just let your hair down with. That inner child wants to get some fresh air from time to time, and LEGO 2K Drive is there for just that. Not everyone will be here for the numerous puns and hammy dialogue, but I think anyone picking this up won’t be disappointed in the classic fun of screwing around with a vat of LEGOs. While the vehicle editor has a bit of a spazzy camera and seems to be missing a couple of parts, it’s still so robust when it comes to bringing those childhood fantasies of racing your custom LEGO car to life that it can be easily forgiven. It’s just a shame the same can’t be said about the egregious microtransactions that are about as painful as stepping on a LEGO. Still, if you have a taste for arcade racers and a love for LEGO, or are maybe looking for a good first racing game for the kids, you can’t do any wrong taking a pit stop at LEGO 2K Drive. | Read review |
| Hobby Consolas | Alberto Lloret | 68 / 100 | 05-15-2023 | LEGO 2K Drive has many good things: a story mode, mini-games, online mode for up to 6 friends… but many of these virtues are soiled by a micropayment system reminiscent of NBA 2K, and that makes it necessary to go through the box to unlock some content. Something questionable, in a game so oriented to children. | Read review |
| IGN | Luke Reilly | 8 / 10 | 05-19-2023 | LEGO 2K Drive is a wild and whimsical all-ages kart racer with an incredible custom vehicle creation tool that’s just about worth the price of admission alone. | Read review |
| IGN Italy | Angelo Bianco | 7.5 / 10 | 05-19-2023 | LEGO 2K Drive is a racing game suitable for younger players and fans of the famous Danish bricks. Still, it is not highly recommended for those seeking a more severe and refined driving experience. However, Visual Concepts has created a motorized adventure full of activities and mini-games, supported by many contents that aesthetically follow the cheerful philosophy of the colorful LEGO universe. Although it is a fun racing game, especially if played with other players, the poor management of the game economy and other more or less essential defects end up limiting its potential. | Read review |
| IGN Spain | Rafa Del Río | 6 / 10 | 05-17-2023 | 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. | Read review |
| Impulsegamer | S. Masoud Kazemi | 4 / 5 stars | 05-19-2023 | Lego 2K Drive has everything a family should have. You can play it co-op with friends, families, especially little kids, and have a blast time. The creation part of the game is rich and just wait to see some of the most amazing cars build by the community of Lego in this game. The overall design of race tracks and side missions could have been better, but the part that is weak compared to all other things in the game | Read review |
| INDIANTVCZ | Jakub Myslivec | 5 / 10 | 06-12-2023 | 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. | Read review |
| Jump Dash Roll | Ant Barlow | 7 / 10 | 05-29-2023 | A shift in focus and a lack of content stop this racer from coming in first place, but as a fun and chaotic arcade racer, LEGO 2K Drive does a lot of things really well. | Read review |
| Kotaku | Zack Zwiezen | Not Recommended | 05-17-2023 | It’s really a shame that such a lovely and fun open-world sandbox is tied to stuff like a season pass, premium currencies, and expensive in-game purchases. Perhaps 2K will tweak some levers to make it easier to earn and unlock new cars—which would be nice—but until then the specter of greed will always be there, nagging at me as I build, smash, and race. | Read review |
| LevelUp | Fernando Salinas | 7.5 / 10 | 05-23-2023 | LEGO 2K Drive does not disappoint and delivers as a very enjoyable racing game. It doesn’t aim to dethrone the genre leaders and follows its own path with a fun but somewhat brief story mode. It is a franchise with the potential to become something bigger if it expands the open-world experience, offers new stories, and undergoes natural growth without overusing microtransactions. | Read review |
| Lords Of Gaming | Mahmood Ghaffar | 7.9 / 10 | 05-21-2023 | Lego 2K Drive is a solid offering. It takes the best parts of Mario Kart, adds some vehicle transformations from Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed, and borrows open-world game design from Forza Horizon, but with a Lego twist. Driving is enjoyable and the game’s performance is well-optimized. The mini-games are all sorts of fun and quite challenging as well. Lego 2K Drive is a solid foundation for a potential new franchise. | Read review |
| Merlin’in Kazanı | Yusuf Canpolat | 74 / 100 | 06-08-2023 | If you like fun racing games and are interested in digital LEGO building, this is the game for you. Despite the game’s shortcomings and occasionally boring missions, LEGO 2K Drive offers a fun gameplay experience. | Read review |
| Metro GameCentral | GameCentral | 6 / 10 | 05-19-2023 | The offensive microtransactions aren’t a surprise but the tedious open world structure obscures what is a surprisingly nuanced and technical arcade racer. | Read review |
| New Game Network | Yasmine Hubbard | 68 / 100 | 06-02-2023 | LEGO 2K Drive feels like a modern spiritual successor to the 1999’s Lego Racers that borrows several beats from powerhouse racing franchises like Forza Horizon and The Crew 2. However, unoriginal quests and shallow microtransactions prevent the experience from being special. | Read review |
| Nintendo Life | Stephen Tailby | 6 / 10 | 05-26-2023 | 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. | Read review |
| PC Gamer | Lewis Parker | 59 / 100 | 05-25-2023 | A fun, if repetitive, kart racer whose charms are sullied by its predatory microtransactions targeted right at young children. | Read review |
| PlayStation Universe | Neil Bolt | 6.5 / 10 | 05-17-2023 | A highly enjoyable and delightfully chaotic racer is drowned in open-world mush that does little to enhance the core point of Lego 2K Drive. Nothing’s truly awful about that side of it, but it does drag down the fun levels of the racing itself. | Read review |
| Press Start | Kieron Verbrugge | 8.5 / 10 | 05-14-2023 | LEGO 2K Drive is a wildly impressive triple threat of a great LEGO game, a great open-world adventure and a great racing game. Whether you want to challenge your friends in slick and exciting head-to-head races, tackle a hefty single-player campaign stuffed with varied and plentiful content, or just spend hours building your own LEGO vehicles by the brick, you’re absolutely covered here. A couple of issues aside, this is easily the best multiplatform arcade racer around. | Read review |
| Prima Games | Shaun Cichacki | 9 / 10 | 05-18-2023 | Lego 2K Drive is a near-perfect arcade racer that will have nostalgic fans, such as myself, finding it nearly impossible to tear themselves away from the screen. | Read review |
| PSX Brasil | Victor Vitório | 75 / 100 | 05-19-2023 | Lego 2K Drive lets you drive at full speed leaving a trail of destruction across open worlds and intense race tracks. Despite bringing good ideas to the table, the game keeps many cards hidden in its sleeve, at the cost of Drive Pass and microtransactions. It is possible to have a lot of fun playing the campaign entirely offline, but there is an absence of more content characteristic of the versatility of the LEGO brand, mainly the minifigures, which cannot be customized and are scarce to acquire by playing, but, not without irony, are abundant in the microtransactions. | Read review |
| Push Square | Stephen Tailby | 7 / 10 | 05-19-2023 | Whether you’re a fan of LEGO, arcade racing, or both, this game comes highly recommended from us, with the unfortunate caveat that it also features pretty aggressive monetisation. Tactile open worlds have a decent amount to discover, the Story mode strikes the perfect tone, and the driving itself is great fun. On top of all that, an impressive build mode lets you make your own crazy cars, though it’s a shame you can’t share them with your pals. Unfortunately, the microtransactions are hard to ignore, and they drag down what is otherwise a creative and engaging racer. | Read review |
| Rapid Reviews UK | TmXGhost | 4 / 5 stars | 06-12-2023 | Bricklandia brings you Lego driving with a twist. An open-world adventure where you can create and operate your own Lego vehicle. Street-based racing, off-road adventuring or water shenanigans, your vehicle transforms wherever you find yourself! | Read review |
| Rock, Paper, Shotgun | Ed Thorn | Not Recommended | 05-18-2023 | A chaotic kart racer with wonderfully imagined open zones, imaginative tracks, and robust building tools, hampered by meaningless live service progression. | Read review |
| Saudi Gamer | Unknown | 8 / 10 | 05-26-2023 | A perfect embodiment of the LEGO world, with a great handling model and equally great car creation mode, marred by aggressive micro-transactions that nevertheless can be bypassed. | Read review |
| Saving Content | Ed Acosta | 4 / 5 stars | 05-25-2023 | LEGO 2K Drive is a delightful racing game that offers an immersive and entertaining experience for players of all ages. The game’s responsive karts, seamless vehicle switching, and arcade-like physics make driving through the LEGO world an absolute blast. The multiplayer options in LEGO 2K Drive ensure that the fun can be shared with friends near and far, both in cooperative and competitive modes. The extensive vehicle selection, coupled with the creative freedom of the Garage Mode, provides endless possibilities for customization and personalization. Overall, LEGO 2K Drive delivers a memorable and enjoyable racing adventure that captures the spirit of LEGO and guarantees hours of entertainment for all. | Read review |
| Screen Rant | Carrie Lambertsen | 4.5 / 5 stars | 05-19-2023 | LEGO 2K Drive may seem like a simple racing game on the surface, but it has surprising depth with its layers of comedy, clever Easter eggs, and creativity. It’s also safe and fun for children and adults alike. LEGO 2K Drive may not be a serious adventure title, but it is certainly a must-play experience for anyone interested in a good time. | Read review |
| SECTOR.sk | Matúš Štrba | 5 / 10 | 05-29-2023 | 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. | Read review |
| Shacknews | Ozzie Mejia | 7 / 10 | 05-31-2023 | LEGO 2K Drive’s solid Story Mode is mainly undone by uneven pacing and the inability to play it online with friends. Add in the game’s comprehensive vehicle builder, and it all leads to a solid debut for the 2K/LEGO partnership, even if the microtransactions can feel like stepping on a square LEGO brick. | Read review |
| Slant Magazine | Ryan Aston | 2.5 / 5 stars | 05-18-2023 | 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. | Read review |
| SpazioGames | Marcello Paolillo | 7.5 / 10 | 05-23-2023 | LEGO 2K Drive is a good racing/open world, where imagination is the only limit. Too bad for a certain underlying monotony. | Read review |
| Stevivor | Alice Clarke | 8 / 10 | 05-16-2023 | Given that this is a full-price, premium game aimed at children, one that is designed to encourage children to buy real-world LEGO bricks, locking content behind season passes and micro-transactions feels gross. It’s not on the level of NBA 2K, but it’s still pretty bad. It’s a black mark against an otherwise excellent game. | Read review |
| The Escapist | KC Nwosu | Recommended | 05-29-2023 | Video Review | Read review |
| The Games Machine | Daniele Cucchiarelli | 8.1 / 10 | 05-24-2023 | The open-world approach of the single-player and the good number of alternative challenges make LEGO 2K Drive a good alternative to the usual Mario Kart. Visual Concepts may lack some experience to achieve Nintendo’s sublime track-design, but the start of this potential new franchise is more than good. | Read review |
| The Outerhaven Productions | Karl Smart | 3.5 / 5 stars | 05-13-2023 | LEGO 2K Drive is a great racing game. The world that is built using a combination of LEGO bricks and real-world objects is stunning and looks like some kid or LEGO hobbyist, made this world in their own home. However, once the game tries to do something that is not racing using a racing control system, that’s when the wheels fall off this particular LEGO racer. | Read review |
| TheGamer | Stacey Henley | 2.5 / 5 stars | 05-15-2023 | 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. | Read review |
| TheSixthAxis | Dominic Leighton | 9 / 10 | 05-19-2023 | Lego 2K Drive does an incredible job of bringing Lego racing to life; it’s unashamedly creative, consistently energetic, and confidently amusing. It’s the kind of game that can bring families together in front of a screen, and away from it. | Read review |
| TrueAchievements | Tom West | 4 / 5 stars | 05-18-2023 | Lego 2K Drive is, without a doubt, a fun, chaotic arcade racing game for anyone that’s a fan of the franchise. Its open world is enjoyable to explore and there are plenty of activities to get stuck into. While the story can be a bit of a slog due to its difficulty, Lego 2K it offers an inviting entry point for children interested in racing games, mixing in a dash of humor and a sprinkle of over-the-top mini-games. There isn’t anything revolutionary to be found, but it offers hours of entertainment and a good few laughs — Visual Concepts has the building blocks of an awesome new series with Lego 2K Drive. | Read review |
| TrueGaming | Unknown | 7 / 10 | 06-04-2023 | LEGO 2K Drive has the potential to turn into a beloved arcade racer. It implements many of its ideas very well but struggles with some others. The game’s monetization practices are questionable, and side missions could’ve been designed more carefully. | Read review |
| Twinfinite | Cameron Waldrop | 3.5 / 5 stars | 05-18-2023 | Lego 2K Drive is a neat little racing game with quite possibly the coolest car creation tools I have ever encountered. While I find myself unable to make anything besides the most rudimentary vehicle, there will be some astonishing creations in the game before long. Despite some issues with side activities, this is still a decent game if you want to ditch the realistic racing games for bricks on wheels. | Read review |
| Use a Potion | Unknown | 9 / 10 | 05-19-2023 | LEGO 2K Drive is a fantastic racing experience that’s sure to appeal to both younger players and those who take their driving VERY seriously. The open world looks great, is full of events to complete, and lets you unleash your destructive side by smashing through seemingly endless LEGO blocks, whilst it’s super rewarding to show off your creative side with the robust vehicle creator. Plus, the racing feels great, which is perhaps the most important aspect of all. | Read review |
| Video Chums | A.J. Maciejewski | 7.9 / 10 | 05-20-2023 | LEGO 2K Drive is a supremely entertaining kart racer, especially for the little ones. So, if you’re looking for an easy-breezy time in a delightfully silly game world then you’ll thoroughly appreciate what this kart racer has in store. | Read review |
| WayTooManyGames | Fernando da Costa | 7 / 10 | 05-24-2023 | Despite the issues, LEGO 2K Drive is a promising beginning to a potential sub-franchise from 2K. There are great ideas that enamor me, thanks to how comforting they are. I hope that if the plan is to do another, the developers don’t try to toss in genres that don’t work here haphazardly. I hope they concentrate on going quickly and create side-quests that make sense for a car. | Read review |
| Wccftech | Nathan Birch | 7.5 / 10 | 05-18-2023 | Lego 2K Drive is a nicely-polished ride, offering up unexpectedly-intense kart-racing action and a handful of diverting sandbox stages to explore. Unfortunately, the game is also a bit light on content and its aggressive microtransactions may make parents looking for something light to play with their kids pump the brakes. Lego 2K Drive is still worth considering, particularly once it goes on sale, but it feels like it’s a few bricks short of what it could have been. | Read review |
| WellPlayed | Ash Wayling | 9 / 10 | 05-18-2023 | LEGO 2K Drive rips up the tarmac with its confident self-identity and gorgeous worlds, delivering one of the most outright enjoyable arcade racers in modern history. | Read review |
| Worth Playing | Cody Medellin | 7.5 / 10 | 05-15-2023 | LEGO 2K Drive is a fun romp if you know what you’re getting into. The racing is fast and exciting, and the catch-up code seems tuned just right. The open worlds provide a ton to do, and the freeform exploration and destruction makes driving around feel enjoyable. The amount of grind needed to make some real progression can drag down things in the intervals, when there are no story-based missions. Some of the quests that aren’t strictly related to racing can be very hit-and-miss in terms of enjoyment. The presence of microtransactions is unsettling to see in the publisher’s non-sports titles. If you can ensure you aren’t tempted to buy new cars due to the paltry reward payouts, you’ll have a very good time with this racing title. | Read review |
| Xbox Achievements | Richard Walker | 70 / 100 | 05-16-2023 | A gleefully colourful and typically humorous LEGO game, LEGO 2K Drive is an enjoyable open world racer that unfortunately offers an uneven challenge and a Story Mode that can be something of a grind. And yet, throwing a LEGO vehicle around Bricklandia is good, clean fun. Swings and roundabouts. | Read review |
| XGN.nl | Sheadon Gunput | 8.5 / 10 | 05-25-2023 | LEGO 2K Drive is a really fun expierence for younger, but also older LEGO fans. The games has many incredible things to offer. For example, there are many really enjoyable challenges to find in the open world, and it’s incredibly cool to build your own racecar with LEGO bricks. The story is a bit unoriginal and the game has microtransactions, what we could expect from a game made by 2K. Nevertheless, everyone who enjoys LEGO or arcade-racers, should give this game a shot! | Read review |
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