Lego Fortnite looks a lot like Lego Minecraft actually, ahead of the new co-op survival game's launch tomorrow

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Fortnite’s much-touted crossover with Lego is almost upon us - and it’s showing off a pretty darn impressive transformation. Lego Fortnite won’t just add a few minifig skins or some blocky guns, but a completely new co-op survival and crafting game mode with more than a touch of Minecraft about it.

A new cinematic trailer for Lego Fortnite finally gives us a look at what the long-anticipated mode will look like, revealing something that looks like an entirely new game - albeit playable in Fortnite.

Fortnite’s characters, buildings and, er, sheep are all replaced by their brickified counterparts, with players using the resources they collect to build a home base out of the plastic blocks.

Those structures will play a role in what’s outlined as being more of a survival game than regular Fortnite - particularly in comparison to its popular multiplayer battle royale mode, because who’s playing Save the World today?

Players will be able to team up with up to seven friends to survive the night against various enemies, with the trailer showing a group delving underground where they encounter skeletons and some kind of lava-covered monster. (You’d think the heat would melt the blocks, but no.) Caves will apparently offer up rarer materials and hidden locations to discover in the mode.

There are other echoes of something more like Minecraft as the player character is shown growing vegetables, fencing off livestock and munching on food around a campfire before tooling up with crossbows, axes and swords to set off on their adventure.

We see some shots of a settlement populated by NPC villagers, who can apparently be recruited to help gather materials, before the character hops on a floating platform to blast away -