Кратко и по фактам:

- Дорого
- Однообразно
- Много доната (можно и без него, но...пункт ниже)
- Много фарма
Решил купить из-за настольгических чувств из детства. Лего Рейсер 1 и 2 были отличными играми для своего времени и я в них много играл.
К сожалению ценник не соответствует содержанию. 3/5

(Поиграл часик на основном аккаунте)

По геймплею Burnout + Mario Kart, как и писали журналисты, тут не добавить, ни убавить, также куча доната и открытый мир по типу Юбисофт с однообразными квестами типа "принеси-подай", также базовыми видами гонок на время/челлендж-гонками, локации скучные, ничего запоминающегося, сюжета тоже никакого нет, просто победи в кубке непонятно зачем, не, конечно, есть в этом некая настольгия по старым простеньким Lego Racers и Lego Island, если ещё кто помнит, но в игре прям сделано плохо всё, что можно было сделать плохо.. Графика плохая, рельеф не из лего, а из обычной графикина Unreal Engine, причём ассеты самого ужасного качества, на горы и деревья лишний раз смотреть не хочется, ещё и ужасная блёклая цветовая гамма, на игру даже смотреть неприятно, также подливает масла в огонь ужасное техническое состояние, встречайте, всем уже знакомые по недавним AAA релизам - статтеры, в гонках, где много эффектов, постоянно будет подвисать и проседать фпс,
Физику машин тоже похвалить нельзя, я, конечно, не спец по гонкам, но лично я плохо чувствовал машину, чувствительность какая-то слишком большая что-ли.. не получал наслаждение от поездок, в общем.
Ещё и отвратительный издатель 2K, конская цена, куча ненужных донатных фич, сезонных пропусков и т.д., отсутствие функции "remote play together" (вы можете скачать неоф. прогу, но по дефолту в игре её нет), а кооператив почему-то макс для 2 игроков ито надо 2 джойстика.

❤️ Я люблю Лего игры, я устал от однообразного конвеера TT Games и хочу новые жанры/эксперименты в лего-формате, мне понравились тут эффекты от "пауэрапов", всякие ракеты, паутинки-ловушки, выглядят классно + у нас 3 типа машин, гоночная/внедорожник/лодка, я сам хочу ещё поиграть в это с друзьями, погонять/поразбивать лего деревья, я не ненавижу эту игру,
Но я не могу поставить палец вверх, не могу рекомендовать никому тратить на это деньги, если у вас есть лишние - попробуйте лучше более креативный недавний Lego Bricktales или Лего-длс в Forza 4 или вон вчерашний кооперативный Аутласт) Ну или скидок подождите.

ННда, вот так выглядит разочарование....
Скажем так: я купил игру только потому что надеялся строить машинки согласно инструкциям взятых из Лего Рейсерс, моделек которых у меня в детстве было не мало, купив 2к врайв я чуть покатался по миру ну и при первой же возможности рванул в гараж, попробовал одну модель, фиг там, попробовал модель побольше, результат тот же. Спустя 5-6 попыток сбора я понял что базы которые выдавали для постройки машинок не совпадают с инструкциями выпущенных физических моделек, инструкции которых кстати вы найдёте в офф приложении на мобилку от лего. Потом забив на Лего Рейсерс подумал что есть ещё Лего Сити и попробовал одну модельку, частично получилось, потом я упёрся в нехватку деталей и "до свидания", не считая того что мне по ходу сбора нужно было модифицировать план сборки, как вы думаете почему? да всё потому что базы для сбора моделек разрабатывались специально чтоб никто не смог собирать уже выпущенные модельки, а для того чтоб особо креативные люди собирали свои модельки а компания Лего воровала их идеи и поднимала на этом бабки потому что запотентировать такое творение будет сложно тем более что вся игра Дего, там ещё полюбасу в договоре который никогда не читается прописано всё что вы тут создадите будет пренадлежать компании Лего а не вам, ну то что типа ознакомтесь и согласны ли вы с правилами использования продукта......
Ну разочаровавшись пшол я катать игру с надеждой найти чтото лучше чем то что я хотел при покупке.... ННда, насобирав 50к зелёных я понял что ценники в игре конские и это мягко сказано, это так, намёк на донатную помойку или фура гринда, и это определённо не плюс этой игрушки. В плюсы можно написать то что можно собрать уже купленные машинки типо по инструкции, и это даже вознаграждается детяльками которые вам не нужны от слова совсем... а вот то что я встречал при сборе и мне такие детальки нужны были, их не давало, ну это полюбасу спецом сделано, чтоб тащить бабосик из кармана играющих, на что я вывешу зажравшейся компании свой детородный орган.
Вот сама составляющая гоночек мне напомнила CTR (Crash Team Racing) ещё с первой плойки.... какой же я старый.... Весёлые покатушки, были бы у меня друзья залипавшие в игрушки так же как и я было бы весело компашкой покататься а в нынешних реалиях повезло комуто больше чем мне.
Активность в открытом мире меня не особо впечетлила, ибо там такие задания что "нада своя жoпa ♥♥♥♥ рвать" чтоб их пройти, потому что в какойто момент уже глаз в мыле но попытки успехом не венчаются, так чисто для ачивки можно делать а фана никакого, ну и в моём случае если фана никакого значить и делать типа в игре нечего.
Ну многие пишут в плюсы юмор леговский, ну от части я его понимаю, а от части нет потому что мне приходится понимать о чём речь ибо игру не перевели, а когда я пытаюсь понять смысл то юмор уже следует последней очередью, ни на русский, ни на украинский, забив болт на двух достаточно крупных потребителей, не считая остальных стран бывшей СССР....
К завершению хочется сказать то что компания Лего конкретно зажралась, конкурентов у неё толком нет, вот и делает она что захочет, выпустила игру в которой уже произведённая продукция никак не используется, хотя в моём случае это был смысл покупки.
И ещё ни в коем случае не покупайте "ЭТО" по фул прайсу, это дичь, как и сказано выше Лего зажрались. Сдесь прайс урезать надо на 75% к тому же это донатопомойка, а ведь игроки ради этого и отдают бабки чтоб отдавать в дальнейшем ещё больше (нет).
Как-то так выглядит разочарование, кстати лего Ворлдс я примерно по такойже причине покупал, и не понял к чему она вообще.
Если бы в игре можно было бы собирать модельки с полного нуля, а не с выданой базы возможно я бы и изменил свой обзор, но нужно быть реалитсами.....
Воможно для детей подошло бы но если у вас самих были лего Машинки в детстве то не берите этот кал.

Ах да! В стиме чтоит что эта игра на стим деке не пашет, я на компе Драйв даже не запускал, только на стим деке, работает нормально, я доволен.

The game is genuinely a lot of fun, it feels like a carefully balanced mix of mario kart & forza, while having the charm that all lego games do. It's childish sure, but quite honestly its a blast.

So why the negative review?

To sum it up, 2K's executives have decided to prey on children - this games monetisation is extremely toxic & should not be legal. It is by design made to siphon money from you and wear down at your mental health all in the name of profit. This is a scam dressed up as a game.

The monetization practices are at best predatory, and at worse abusive. This is a full-price game, the full version costing £104 . The executives that manhandled this game to be somehow more predatory than EA need to be fired & removed. Do not support this game anymore than you already have, if you've bought it and can't refund, do NOT give in to the microtransations, they will take advantage of you if you are not able to resist temptations. It is designed meticulously in a way to appeal to impulses.

I keep using the word "predatory", and thats for good reason. This is a game marketed towards children, and its built around a microtransation system that hides & obfuscated information. You do not see the price of the coins anywhere in the game, preying on children whose parents aren't tech-savvy enough to have parental locks on steam. They will make purchases outside their means, and that is BY DESIGN. The obfuscation of the price of coins means that ANY CHILD will just pick the biggest number not realising that what they are doing is making a purchase. I was a kid once, I know damn well that 13 year old me would not have been aware enough to stop before making a purchase. Once that "buy" screen is up, its over, that child will put down any information they could to get that skin they want.

It is so extremely predatory it should be on a list..

The progression after completing 1/3rd of the game with time spent searching for collectables is BY DESIGN made to frustrate you into getting those coins to get the currency used in the game. After 6 hours I do not have enough of said currency to buy *ONE* vehicle, so you are either forced to pay up more on a full priced game, or spend the next week of your life wittling away at getting a SINGLE VEHICLE. And keep in mind, I did the game at the designed pace, the story is 18 hours, I did a third of it in 6 - you cannot buy one thing in the shop with 1/3 of the games length and thats unacceptable.

That is not even beginning to mention the mental games it starts to play with you right from the beginning, it toys with you at the beginning trying to make these "cool items" seem easy to get. The game constantly shoves advertising for its in-game shop, slowly wearing you down until you go "fine, i'll take a look" just to shut the character up. It is made this way to annoy you enough, to overwhelm you enough, to break through any fortifications you've built up to get you to give in. Everything about this game is designed to push you into that shop. It locks what could be a very good vehicle creator behind tons of gates & hidden stuff because they want you to be frustrated, you don't have every brick you would need right away, you don't have every vehicle base you would need to make something you want to. You can't even make a completely custom vehicle despite the game very much having the capability to do so.

This is the game that defines the state that gaming has become, its no longer about making a good game - now its about taking as much money as possible. Do. Not. Buy.

This game is predatory
This game is abusive
This game is 2K

Avoid at all costs... Click the ignore button.
Play literally anything else

You either have a 60-120 dollar price tag and no micro transactions, or you make it free with microstransactions. You can't have both, and I hope that LEGO decides to put their foot down on this absolutely disgusting practice being used.

Also does anyone else feel like the time requirements for the side challenges is too damn strict?

I like this game. It's a fun game, and it's got a lot of character. I can't recommend it in good conscience. It's another live service game by none other than 2K Games, the forever runner-up in the "Worst game company of all time" competition.

If you're ok with grinding or spending money on a game you already paid premium full price for, by all means this game is for you. If you have enough creativity to work with a limited parts pallette out of the gate, you can have plenty of fun with this game without grinding for even a moment. If you want to just play the story mode, sure, go for it! But I can't in good conscience say "This is a game for everybody and should be given praise for everything it does right" because the one thing it does wrong it does to an egregious extent, and will likely only get worse over time.

Overall, it's a fun game marred eternally by Microtransactions and a pretty apparent lack of single player content (which the game expects you to grind pretty endlessly to buy the items in the shop since multiplayer races are worth a fraction of the payout).

In summation: LEGO Racers 3, but at what cost?

I want to recommend this game. So badly. But I cant in good conscience. I know this is published by 2K games but, the microtransaction situation in this game is absolutely abysmal. And horrifically predatory. Especially for a full price game aimed at kids. The first time you load into the main menu, after you make/login to your 2K account, you will likely be immediately greeted by a prompt to buy the "battlepass", just to give you an example. You earn a decent amount of currency doing the campaign but once you finish everything your essentially forced to open your wallet if you want anything. As multiplayer races give chump change (Around 10 bucks per race if you win, when cars cost 10k and above). The thing I was most excited for, the vehicle building, is really awesome. But if your given a relatively limited selection of parts to begin with. And you cant make your own chassis. And even more disappointing still, the vehicles you unlock during the campaign dont unlock the bricks used on them for you to use on your own vehicles. And if you want to get more parts, your going to have to buy them from the store. Same with buying the engines that dictate how fast or strong your vehicle is. Which makes your own homebrew vehicles useless if you cant afford a good engine.

The racing is enjoyable, aside from the rubberbandy catchup mechanics. Which remove the skill element of the game, and makes it more based on RNG. And the story is fun. Its got the signature lego humour and jokes which will give you a good chuckle. However the story is very very short. You could probably get it done in one sitting if you tried.

Overall I really wish I could recommend the game, but I just cant in its current state. The game itself feels like it has passion put into it. But having to pay full price, only to have to open my wallet again to get the other half of the game in terms of vehicles and building parts, is just ridiculous. This games probably going to have a short life unless something changes. Im hoping Lego will step in and tell 2k to calm the farm a bit and make things actually earnable in a reasonable time. Cause Im not spending hundreds of hours grinding multiplayer just to get 1 car, that Im likely not going to use anyway aside from the parts it has.

This games likely going to just sit on the shelf once I finish finding all the collectables, and be a waste of my money. Which is really sad, because this was the first game I was actually kind of hyped for in a very long time. But I got burned for it thanks to what I mentioned above. If you really like lego, stick around and see where things go. But I wouldnt jump in and buy it now.

The game is genuinely a lot of fun, it feels like a carefully balanced mix of mario kart & forza, while having the charm that all lego games do. It's childish sure, but quite honestly its a blast.

So why the negative review?

To sum it up, 2K's executives have decided to prey on children - this games monetisation is extremely toxic & should not be legal. It is by design made to siphon money from you and wear down at your mental health all in the name of profit. This is a scam dressed up as a game.

The monetization practices are at best predatory, and at worse abusive. This is a full-price game, the full version costing £104 . The executives that manhandled this game to be somehow more predatory than EA need to be fired & removed. Do not support this game anymore than you already have, if you've bought it and can't refund, do NOT give in to the microtransations, they will take advantage of you if you are not able to resist temptations. It is designed meticulously in a way to appeal to impulses.

I keep using the word "predatory", and thats for good reason. This is a game marketed towards children, and its built around a microtransation system that hides & obfuscated information. You do not see the price of the coins anywhere in the game, preying on children whose parents aren't tech-savvy enough to have parental locks on steam. They will make purchases outside their means, and that is BY DESIGN. The obfuscation of the price of coins means that ANY CHILD will just pick the biggest number not realising that what they are doing is making a purchase. I was a kid once, I know damn well that 13 year old me would not have been aware enough to stop before making a purchase. Once that "buy" screen is up, its over, that child will put down any information they could to get that skin they want.

It is so extremely predatory it should be on a list..

The progression after completing 1/3rd of the game with time spent searching for collectables is BY DESIGN made to frustrate you into getting those coins to get the currency used in the game. After 6 hours I do not have enough of said currency to buy *ONE* vehicle, so you are either forced to pay up more on a full priced game, or spend the next week of your life wittling away at getting a SINGLE VEHICLE. And keep in mind, I did the game at the designed pace, the story is 18 hours, I did a third of it in 6 - you cannot buy one thing in the shop with 1/3 of the games length and thats unacceptable.

That is not even beginning to mention the mental games it starts to play with you right from the beginning, it toys with you at the beginning trying to make these "cool items" seem easy to get. The game constantly shoves advertising for its in-game shop, slowly wearing you down until you go "fine, i'll take a look" just to shut the character up. It is made this way to annoy you enough, to overwhelm you enough, to break through any fortifications you've built up to get you to give in. Everything about this game is designed to push you into that shop. It locks what could be a very good vehicle creator behind tons of gates & hidden stuff because they want you to be frustrated, you don't have every brick you would need right away, you don't have every vehicle base you would need to make something you want to. You can't even make a completely custom vehicle despite the game very much having the capability to do so.

This is the game that defines the state that gaming has become, its no longer about making a good game - now its about taking as much money as possible. Do. Not. Buy.

This game is predatory
This game is abusive
This game is 2K

Avoid at all costs... Click the ignore button.
Play literally anything else.

This game at base value is fun but the micro-transactions ruin it. I played it for about 9 hours as of this review, and crashed 3 times. Every crash removed 20k from my currency that you use to buy cars. The game is literally stealing money from you. Thankfully I didn't spend anything on micro-transactions and lost no real money but this is a huge problem. As of now I can't recommend this game and if you do get it, don't spend money.

Edit: My game crashed 9 Times. The new battlepass takes to long to level. You need to get in 1st like 6/7 times just to level once. The game currently has no replay value and I think I'm done playing it at this point.

Never, in all my years, have I been so glad that a game has received little-to-no attention. This crock of wasted potential is insulting not just to LEGO fans who have long-waited for a spiritual successor to the Racers series, but to anyone with a functioning cerebral cortex, and it's all to do with its disgusting, predatory monetisation system.

LEGO 2K Drive is out to get your money in any way shape or form in what is quite possibly the most exploitative microtransaction system I have ever seen for a game which costs anywhere from £50 to a LAUGHABLE £105 at launch.

First of all, the game is literally designed to have no replay value – not only do many of the single player activities serve no purpose other than to frustrate you for single-digit payouts (cars in this game cost anywhere from 10,000 to 20,000 Brickbux) but rewards for races and quests that are actually worth anything drop significantly in value after the first go-around, meaning that, once you've completed all the races, there is virtually no point in playing the game anymore.

Multiplayer payouts are even worse – players have claimed it can take at least 167 hours of multiplayer matches to buy a single car in LEGO 2K Drive, but in reality it's likely much longer thanks to its dwindling player base.

I'd also like to remind you that this is a game targeted at kids. Even the premium shop, dubbed "Unkie's Emporium" is designed to look welcoming and inviting to young people in the way it shows off its premium currency and the LEGO cars which, if bought with premium currency, can reach up to £10 for ONE vehicle.

It's a buggy mess, too. Several of the bricks don't have studs for some reason, it crashes frequently, the premium shop is often non-functional, and it has soft-locked so many times it's not even funny.

What's truly upsetting is that there is a fantastic arcade racing game underneath all of this mess, with tight controls, an interesting power-up system, and an enthralling car-building mechanic which would be something to cherish if it wasn't in this game.

Do not buy this game even if it is discounted, the intentionally frustrating mechanics designed to split you with more of your money are not worth it. This game should remain a monument to 2K and Visual Concept's disgusting business practices and LEGO should be ashamed it ever allowed these notoriously deceitful companies to sully its brand even further.