LEGO 2K Drive could add Star Wars DLC: "We are pursuing everything you can imagine"

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Announced today (Thursday 23rd March), LEGO 2K Drive is an upcoming open-world racing game that is bursting with personality, with smash-able LEGO vehicles and brightly-coloured environments coupled tantalisingly with generous dollops of humour and imagination.

Prior to the game's announcement, RadioTimes.com attended a preview event for LEGO 2K Drive at the Take-Two offices in London. Of course, Take-Two's subsidiary 2K is known for its sports games, including the ongoing NBA 2K and WWE 2K franchises, but this LEGO collaboration feels like something different.

In fact, LEGO 2K Drive feels more like a cross between Nintendo's Mario Kart and Microsoft's Forza Horizon than it does a traditional sporting sim. We were able to play the game for a few hours, across multiple modes (including solo play and multiplayer match-ups), and it feels like a wholesome yet silly recipe for family-friendly fun.

We started playing the game solo, going through the tutorial content that introduces you to the world, including wacky characters with pun names like Parker Carr. The set-up is simple: right now, you're a rookie driver, and you'll have to take on a series of increasingly difficult trophies if you want to win the big shiny trophy in the sky.

You can design your character from a wide range of options, and you can also design the absurd LEGO car of your dreams in the game's garage workshop (more on that later). We opted for a pre-made robot character and then went straight into the action, with a sharp-witted former champ on hand to guide our character through the basics.

Driving in the game has a 'pick up and play' quality, where it definitely feels like even a young kid could understand the basics instantly. Press this button to go.