Available for download only on PC platforms with the Intel® RealSense™ 3D Camera. Welcome to the future. LEGO® Portal Racers is a new PC app game that responds to your body movements - as if you were actually inside the game! In this endless runner game, race your hoverboard on epic circuits controlled by dynamic head and hand movements. In a quest for speed and coin grabs, steer through portals to explore new worlds and boost your ride in the module pit. Start playing LEGO® Portal Racers in just 3 steps: Make sure your PC is on the supported list of PC platforms with the Intel® RealSense™ 3D camera Download and install the application to your PC desktop Play and have fun! In LEGO® Portal Racers you race a hoverboard by moving your body and hands in front of the PC. You move - the screen responds. Steer the hoverboard by moving your head and body. Grab coins by moving your hands. Here’s how you play: CHOOSE which of the 8 LEGO® characters should race your ride
BUILD UP your hoverboard in the mod shop RACE in one of the four epic circuits GRAB Studs as you race STEER through portals to up your portal record and travel between the racers’ home worlds REPAIR your hoverboard in the pit stop To download and play LEGO® Portal Racers you will need a PC platform with the Intel® RealSense™ 3D Camera. click here to contact customer service.Genre: Childrens, RacingRelease Year: 2001Developer: Attention To DetailPublisher: Lego SoftwareAge Rating: EveryonePlayability Status: PerfectTested On: Windows 8 x64Availability: Copyright retained - Out of print/unavailable Kids these days eh? When I was a child, Lego races took place on the carpet and involved a lot of pushing around little Lego models and a healthy chunk of imagination. Nowadays of course, you can simulate said Lego racing on your computer, with a copy of Lego Racers 2. While the computer version can be fun, we can’t help but hope the traditional method still has its place.
If you have a copy of this game and a modern PC, getting it going again is now easy and it’s a great way to keep the kids entertained on a rainy afternoon. The most difficult thing about playing Lego Racers 2 on a modern PC is getting the game installed. Using the installer provided on the CD, most users will get a “Not enough memory” error, despite having more than ample computer memory to run this title. The problem is due to a programming error, modern PCs have so much more memory now than in 2001 that the installer just gets confused. Various solutions around the web range from setting compatibility modes (didn’t work for us) to physically yanking memory chips out of your computer. None of the proposed solutions seemed acceptable, so we’ve re-written the installer for the game. Our replacement installer will work on any PC, regardless of how much memory you have installed. You can download it here (link dead? Let me know here). Once you have downloaded the installer, simply pop your Lego Racers 2 CD-ROM in your optical drive and run the installer.
Follow all the on screen prompts and the game should be installed within a couple of minutes. If you have any issues with the installer please leave a comment and let us know. Once the game is installed, you can launch it from the Start menu or Start screen by searching for “Lego Racers 2” and clicking the icon that then appears. Before you hit the race track, there are some visual quality options you may want to tweak, to stop the game from looking quite so blocky (except where it is supposed to, of course). From the main menu, choose “Game Options” and then “Graphics”. The following options will then appear (click on the picture to see a bigger version). For best quality, crank up “Detail Level” and “Image Quality” to the maximum and turn down “Compression” to the very minimum setting. Screen resolution should also generally be turned up as high as possible, as long as your monitor supports the selected screen mode. Screen resolution maxed out on our rig at 1024×768, though the readme file included with the game seemed to suggest it should go higher.
Lego Racers 2 is a 4:3 aspect ratio (non-widescreen) game and should run with borders on the sides when played on a widescreen monitor or TV. From the main menu, choose “Game Options” and then “Sound”. Simply make sure this is set to High. There are no surround sound soundtracks or other quality settings to configure this time. After you have configured game options, don’t forget to save. You can do this by selecting “Load / Save” from the games main menu. The game does NOT automatically save options or progress, so remember to save after you progress through the game too. The games configuration files and save games are placed in your documents folder under “Games\Lego Racers 2\Saved Games”. The file “LR2.cfg” that the game creates contains all your preferences. Unfortunately, the file is not in a human readable format, so it’s not possible to edit the file by hand and reconfigure any hidden options this time. Lego Racers 2 fully supports analogue controllers, with only a couple of caveats which we will get to in a moment.
To configure your controller, select “Game Options” from the games main menu and then “Controls”. You will now need to choose player 1 or player 2, since the game can be played split-screen by two players. The controls map fairly well to the Xbox 360 pad. Make sure to set the “A / D” option to “Analog”. We set up the controls like this:- Reverse – Y (Yellow) Fire Weapon – X (Blue) Brick Boost – A (Green) Talk – B (Red) Look Behind – Back Next Target – RB Previous Target – LB When you configure the controls in game like that, it should look like the picture shown below. There are three problems we encountered when using the 360 controller. First of all, the dead zone (the amount the stick needs to be moved before registering any movement) seemed to be a little too small. While playing, our little Lego mini-figure seemed to always lean either left or right. Secondly, the D-pad isn’t recognised at all by the game.