Vehicles with particular characteristics might help with some mini-games but in a race, it truly comes down to player skill and their preference for how driving should feel, be it nimble with smaller cars or larger ones that have heft. That commitment to giving players the freedom to create in LEGO 2K Drive doesn’t come at a cost to competitive fairness, with the team stressing that there is nothing that would force players to build a certain way to gain an advantage. We want them to build crazy vehicles and still be able to drive them and take them into the world,” added Ryan Kehlenbeck, Senior Engineer. And I think we hit a nice sweet spot where players have the freedom to build all sorts of different vehicles. “We tried to find a nice balance between arcade racers and simulation driving games. The system then “adjusts the physics parameters on the fly to adapt to that” to make sure all the physics work as they should, even if players go crazy on creating their dream vehicles in LEGO 2K Drive. That means if players build a really tall vehicle, it will teeter more, while a long vehicle has a wide wheelbase, steering will change, and the number of bricks used will affect collision too. “In a game like this, where players can literally build their vehicle, brick by brick, in any shape they want, we had to come up with a proprietary system that can analyse the build of the vehicle,” shared General Manager Steven Ranck, a veteran of the classic Cruis’n USA for the N64. Naturally, there are going to be some worries, but after speaking with the team, there is more of a sense of optimism that this could be a stellar project awaiting to be unleashed.Īt the heart of the game is its driving, and it is something that the folks over at 2K Games and Visual Concepts are keen to get right, albeit with a level of creative fun and flexibility. After all, developer Visual Concepts has been focused on the sports vertical for quite some time now, but now, it will be taking on the competition in the racing space with the help of everyone’s favourite building bricks. First revealed near the end of March, LEGO 2K Drive certainly caught many people by surprise.
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