Not so in Lego 2K Drive, where life is bright, pre-assembled, and anything but still.
If only it were more than the sum of its parts.
Lego 2K Drive review
What are those parts, exactly?
This is a wise decision, kitbashing with the choicest of kits, but it invites harsh contrast.
The weapons that you collect during races, for example, lack the wit of those in Mario Kart.
Take the spiderweb, which fastens onto foes and causes them to come unstuck.
Instead, the web is spring-loaded and instant, cocooning them in bad handling until they hop it off.
Then again, not every comparison is a damning one.
Which is lucky for you and convenient for the story!"
Police chases, where you hound suspects with missiles until they burst and flake down to a bare chassis.
And point-to-point time trials, a knuckle-chewing challenge, if you desire anything north of a bronze medal.
Hauntsborough, meanwhile, is a sprawl of mansions and misted hills, riddled with arachnids.
My personal favourite is Big Butte County, with its see-sawing boulders.
In no other world can you imagine these vistas not clashing.
It feels as though Visual Concepts had run out of road and defaulted to busywork.
You never had the space for any tedium to seep in.
Talk about zoom and bored.
Four pre-set control configurations but no free button remapping.
Includes colour blind prefs for people with deuteranopia, protanopia, and tritanopia.
Features subtitle size adjustment and changeable background colours.
If you are in a creative mood, you might cobble together fresh vehicles.
If only Lego 2K Drive offered more food for thought.
But it isn’t backed by mechanics as deep or compelling as they need to be.
