#Lego spaceship professional#

“I think the simulation elements really come in ‘feel’ - we wanted everything to feel the way it looks. “We struck a nice balance between some more arcade-driving dynamics and some more simulation-feeling dynamics,” Senior Engineer Ryan Kehlenbeck told Jalopnik. That complicated the physics side of the project. Only, unlike practically any racing game you can think of, players in LEGO 2K Drive are free - nay, encouraged - to create their wildest brick-built dreams on wheels. The subject of our conversation was about driving dynamics, the backbone of any good racer, arcade or sim.

So you can imagine my surprise when I sat down to chat with the Visual Concepts South team about its new open-world romp, which releases May 19 for current- and last-gen platforms, including the Nintendo Switch and PC.

Not unless you’re training to be a LEGO master, anyway.

#Lego spaceship professional#

But LEGO 2K Drive, a game in which you can use plastic bricks to build a car that looks like a hamburger and also turns into a boat, is decidedly not a professional training sim. At the very least, the title in question is at least based in some semblance of reality, like Forza Horizon. More often than not, it’s a full-blown simulation, like iRacing or Assetto Corsa. When a racing game developer talks up the authenticity of its driving model, you can typically assume the kind of experience they’re going for.