I'm talking to you again today quickly about the LEGO 2K Drive video game, I played it for a few days and even if I ended up getting a little tired of the game's mechanics, I must admit that I still amused a bit. Solo, nothing very exciting, it's a classic arcade racing game as there are buckets of them, with its bonuses, its more or less difficult circuits and its secondary missions without much interest but which prolong the pleasure a little . If you like LEGO, you necessarily go through a short discovery phase of everything you can break or build in the game, even if it is above all a racing game.

The ability to create and customize vehicles is a plus but I'm not really sensitive to it even if the editor (the garage) is rather ergonomic and those used to the usual digital construction tools should at least spend a few hours there with a quite impressive inventory of parts available.

It is obviously not a car simulation in the literal sense of the term, with a piloting that seemed to me closer to that of a Mario Kart than that of a more demanding racing game and the technical characteristics of the different vehicles ultimately seem to me to have little impact on their performance or handling. In any case, not enough for me to remember noticing a glaring difference between two machines.

The play area is large enough not to get bored too quickly with several thematic biomes to explore, but it's the game mechanics that ended up boring me with frankly long and laborious progression in story mode. Moreover, it is not theOpen World hoped for by some even though the different biomes are big enough to get lost in and not feel like going in circles.

To accumulate experience points, there are only two possibilities: embark on the systematic execution of many more or less interesting secondary missions or participate in the same races in a loop. Same observation for the virtual "currency" of the game, the Brickflouzes, distributed sparingly to encourage the player to go and buy them with real euros via the integrated store. It's petty, knowing that those who have the patience to explore all the possibilities of the game will in my opinion be the youngest LEGO fans.

LEGO could have imposed the absence of micro-transactions in the specifications of the game, the manufacturer is often very attentive concerning the licensed video games regularly offered by different publishers and I have a little trouble understanding how he was able to allow this feature in a game aimed at a very young audience.

The most successful part of the game is in my opinion the possibility of playing two in split screen and this is where the fun is at its maximum thanks to the boosters and other weapons distributed on the road and which allow you to catch up at the last moment or at least to compensate for a driving error which caused a few places to be lost. The circuits are well designed, the behavior of the vehicles is very correct with good handling and a real feeling of speed. Like in Mario Kart, we start the game, we race and we move on.

So I won't try to finish the game and all the quests it contains, I don't have the patience or the time for that. On the other hand, playing it from time to time with the family seems to me a good solution. Although everyone around me prefers Mario Kart and the excuse of the LEGO universe with its usual little touches of humor will not be enough to distract them from their favorite arcade mode racing game.

Let's be honest, no matter how much buzz this video game gets in the small world of LEGO fans who see here a new opportunity to build contraptions and smash stuff while racing against AI-powered competitors, moreover a little weak, or against their friends locally or on the network, it does not revolutionize the genre and it will not mark the history of video games. It is far from being the best LEGO game ever marketed and it is above all a game that reuses the usual recipe of many other titles by integrating the specificities of the brand as best as possible. It's well done but anyone who already has Mario Kart or Crash Team Racing on their consoles will do without it.

If you want to test this game without delay, be satisfied with the basic edition sold for 50 € or 60 €, nothing justifies spending double on a boosted edition for a few bonuses without much interest. Otherwise, wait a few months, it still smells of video games that will end up at a bargain price just about everywhere to sell off stocks.

If you've played LEGO 2K Drive, don't hesitate to give your impressions in the comments, those who are still hesitant may find something to tip the scales one way or the other before spending their money. .

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Today we go very quickly around the contents of the LEGO set 40649 Up-Scaled LEGO Minifigure, a box of 654 pieces which will be available on the official online store and in LEGO Stores from June 1, 2023 at the retail price of €49.99.

You already know it if you follow, this figurine to build takes the format of those of the LEGO Harry Potter sets 76393 Harry Potter & Hermione Granger et 40504 A Minifigure Tribute. LEGO would be wrong not to decline until more thirsty this format which allows you to display at home an oversized minifig which retains a certain mobility and which allows you to display your passion for LEGO products without doing too much and with a little effort. 'originality.

The construction process for this minifigure, which is actually a reproduction of the one installed at the entrance to the LEGO premises in Billund, is identical to that of the two students from the Harry Potter range and anyone who already has the relevant set in their collection will therefore be on familiar ground.

This 27 cm high figurine, however, reserves a little surprise under the character's cap with a small staging that features a minifig at the controls as if it were a robot here that would be piloted by its owner.

It's nicely integrated with a hinged cupola that opens to let your friends enjoy this hidden detail, but don't expect any mechanism that would act on the whole construction, the gears present are purely decorative.

The main defect of this figurine is also that of its congeners: I find that the lower part of the character's face is missed with a retracting chin which really struggles to convince, even if on this one the generic graphics of the face attenuates this feeling a little face with incorrect proportions.

The figurine offered here also has a defect directly linked to its appearance: under certain lighting, we notice some differences in color between the different red and blue parts, LEGO obviously not always managing to perfectly homogenize its production.

For the rest, the construction phase is interesting with some pretty techniques to discover and a result that will appeal to all those who do not necessarily want to display large gray ships or an overly bulky castle in their office or living room but who want everything even show their love of brick by the presence of an emblematic construction.

The public price of the thing seems almost reasonable to me for this product which will make a nice gift to offer to a fan too busy to complete his collection of licensed sets and who will perhaps miss this figurine or who will not make one not a top priority in this very busy launch period.

Note: The product shown here, provided by LEGO, is as usual involved. Deadline fixed at 7th June 2023 next at 23:59 p.m. Just post a comment under the article to participate. Your participation is taken into account regardless of your opinion. 

Update : The winner was drawn and notified by email, his nickname is indicated below.

Today we are quickly interested in the content of the LEGO Marvel set 76258 Captain America Building Figure, a box of 310 pieces that will be available on the official online store and in LEGO Stores from June 1st at the retail price of €37.99.

The articulated figurine is quickly assembled, no stickers and we get here some pad-printed elements such as the shield, the star which is placed on the character's chest as well as the face of Captain America and the two patterns placed on the sides of his mask . By being really indulgent, I think this figurine is a little more successful than the Wolverine one I was telling you about a few days ago.

Let's not get carried away, she also has her faults with four-fingered hands, a too pale face whose color is not fitting with that of the fingers and a facial expression which resembles that of a mini-doll from the range Friends. I would have preferred that Captain America sketch a real rictus, story that the face of the character is matched to the different dynamic poses that the figurine can adopt via its different points of articulation.

The figurine's head is still disappointing in its construction with a slightly strange shape, an obvious lack of volume at the neck and a connection ball that remains far too visible. This articulated doll of a little over 20cm high is obviously intended for children, but that is not a reason to limit the efforts so much on the aesthetic level.

It's almost a shame that the head is so sloppy, the rest being acceptable with a look rather consistent with the character's usual physique. the pretty shield can either be fixed on the left hand or on the back of Captain America via the pine planned, the solution is effective even if it will be necessary to resolve to always have one of the two pins clearly visible on the back of the hand or on the back.

In short, nothing to marvel at this figurine which will perhaps delight the youngest, it is in my opinion too expensive for what it is and the few minutes spent assembling it are not enough to donate for €38. I'm not worried, this type of set sooner or later ends up in destocking at a bargain price somewhere and those who want to get the pretty pad-printed shield can then afford this box for much less.

Note: The product shown here, provided by LEGO, is as usual involved. Deadline fixed at 30th May 2023 next at 23:59 p.m. Just post a comment under the article to participate. Your participation is taken into account regardless of your opinion. 

Update : The winner was drawn and notified by email, his nickname is indicated below.

Today we take a quick tour of the content of the LEGO Marvel set 76260 Black Widow & Captain America Motorcycles, a small box of 130 pieces which will be available on the official online store and in LEGO Stores at the public price of €15.99 from June 1, 2023. The title of the product is sufficiently explicit, it is a question here of assembling two machines with their respective owners. The 130 parts of the product leave no room for doubt, the two motorcycles are made up of a handful of parts.

The designer is doing quite well on arrival, however, with two relatively detailed and sufficiently different machines for one or the other of these frames to be associated with its owner. Both machines are based on the same chassis and a few decorative pieces take care of the aesthetic variations so that Captain America and Black Widow ride different motorcycles and roughly conform to the versions seen on screen.

If Black Widow can hold the handlebars of her motorcycle with both hands by precisely adjusting the angle of the "handles" this is not the case for Captain America who is embarrassed by the new Tile with the counters placed between the seat and the handlebars. Too bad that the two handlebars are designed like this, the two parts used tend to easily come off their support.

The children will find their account there, there is enough fun even if it will be necessary to obtain some bad guys on whom to shoot with the Stud Shooters integrated into the sides of the two motorcycles. If you have a feeling of deja vu with these two motorcycles, it's normal, they take up the principle of those delivered in the LEGO DC set 76179 Batman & Selina Kyle Motorcycle Pursuit (2022)

On the side of the two characters provided, LEGO recycles here the minifig of Captain America already seen in the set 76189 Captain America and HYDRA Face-Off (2021) and provides a never-before-seen minifig of Black Widow that reuses the usual head and hair. The figurine is nicely pad-printed, we even avoid the flesh-colored area often present at the level of the neck, which in any case would not have been completely in line with the character's head because of the black background of the torso. The outfit worn here by the character is generally consistent with that seen in the film Avengers: Age of Ultron, it may be missing some patterns on the arms to refine the figure.

In short, this unpretentious derivative product is a simple toy for children, there is nothing here to satisfy the thirst of the most seasoned collectors knowing that the Black Widow figurine will undoubtedly be delivered in a future more substantial set. So it's up to you to see if you just need this new figure or if you prefer to wait for a few extra minifigs and a handful of bricks to go with it all.

The two motorcycles delivered here are both a little coarse but easily identifiable and the two figurines provided are interesting, it's always taken. 16 € for only two figurines, it is obviously now the price to pay at LEGO, we will do with it.

Note: The product shown here, provided by LEGO, is as usual involved. Deadline fixed at 27th May 2023 next at 23:59 p.m. Just post a comment under the article to participate. Your participation is taken into account regardless of your opinion. 

Update : The winner was drawn and notified by email, his nickname is indicated below.

Today we are quickly interested in the content of the LEGO Marvel set 76257 Wolverine Construction Figure, a box of 327 pieces which will be available on the official online store and in LEGO Stores at the retail price of €37.99 from June 1, 2023.

I'm not going to make the suspense last too long, I find this figure loosely inspired by the version of the character seen in the X-Men '97 animated series simply missed. If you have read my review of the figurine delivered in the set 76256 Ant-Man Construction Figure available since May 1st, you already know what I think of the format proposed here.

In use, we come to wonder if the compromise used is in fact unfortunately located between the two sizes ideally suited for these articulated dolls. : it's too big to convince with the many aesthetic shortcuts that probably save some parts to stay in the price range and it's also too small to allow a sufficient level of detail in order not to make these constructions robots rather than humans.

This being said, the problem of this Wolverine is in my opinion elsewhere: it is his head which seems to me really missed. It is not correctly positioned on the torso and it does not really have the shape of a head. And that's without counting on the totally missed detail which would have required very special care: the junction between the ears and the eyes of the character's mask.

We go from a black pad printing to a stack of parts which seems to me not very credible and I do not see how to show indulgence on this level. The intention is there but the execution does not follow and it is the whole appearance of the character which is ruined with this head too big for the torso on which it is fixed and these two very coarse excrescences.

No stickers in this box but we are not going to consider this detail as a favor either, at 38 € the product is intended to be handled until more thirsty by children who are not necessarily always very careful, that's the least we can do .

For the rest, it will be necessary to make do with the various connection points which remain clearly visible, the limited mobility due to the abutment points of the decorative elements placed on the limbs, the claws that are too long and too wide or even the finesse of the size and of the character's abdomen which are far from embodying what we see on screen in the series.

The youngest will perhaps find their account there, they will consider that the character of a good twenty centimeters in height is all the same recognizable and that it offers some playful possibilities. Provided that their parents resign themselves to spending €38 on this derivative product. On the other hand, this wolverine does not deserve the honors of a collector's shelf in my opinion, except perhaps while waiting for a hypothetical high-end bust or a much more accomplished figurine.

Note: The product shown here, provided by LEGO, is as usual involved. Deadline fixed at 26th May 2023 next at 23:59 p.m. Just post a comment under the article to participate. Your participation is taken into account regardless of your opinion. 

Update : The winner was drawn and notified by email, his nickname is indicated below.