Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment has announced the UK release date and price for its upcoming sandbox game, LEGO Worlds. Developed by TT Games and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, LEGO Worlds will launch on February 24th 2017 for PS4, Xbox One and Steam at a suggested retail price of £24.99. Pre-orders have now opened for both physical and digital editions of the game on PS4 and Xbox One, but Steam users can get building straight away thanks to its ongoing Early Access model. This is currently priced at £11.99. The good news is that players who buy the Early Access version of LEGO Worlds won’t have to pay a penny more when the game eventually launches, as Warner Bros. has confirmed that current Early Access users will be able to update to the final version of the game with all the latest features completely free of charge. The LEGO Agents DLC pack will also be available as a timed exclusive on PS4 before launching later on other platforms. The DLC pack includes new characters, vehicles, weapons and a whole host of other play materials from the Agents range.
LEGO Worlds was first announced on June 1st 2015, with its Early Access launch arriving the same day. Due to its sandbox nature and emphasis on building and creating environments out of LEGO blocks, the game has drawn several comparisons to Mojang’s Minecraft. However, whereas Minecraft focuses more on survival and open-ended creative play, LEGO Worlds will draw on the company's multitude of different worlds to create a varied, fantastical landscape for players to explore. LEGO Worlds will also allow players to build their creations brick-by-brick or by laying down whole, pre-built LEGO structures, as well as paint and shape their landscape using the game's in-depth toolest. Online multiplayer is another major feature, allowing players to explore each other's worlds and create their own objects together. Disgaea 5 Complete release date confirmed for May on Switch UPDATED: Snake Pass slithers onto Nintendo Switch on March 29th Mass Effect Andromeda: Everything you need to know, release date, free trial, price, pre-order deals, season pass, PS4 Pro support and official merchandise
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I got a chance to see it for myself at the PlayStation Experience over the weekend. Here’s why you might want to keep it on your radar. Much like Mojang’s Minecraft, LEGO Worlds grants players the ability to create a virtual world, brick by brick—but this time with even more freedom. Simply by holding down triangle on the Dualshock 4, I was given several options that would shape my world, including: the build tool, the discover tool, and my inventory. The build mode is obviously the draw here, and acts as a virtual set of LEGO. After entering the build mode, hitting triangle again would expand my options. From this menu, there not only was a variety of LEGO block shapes to choose from, but additional accents like doors to add to your masterpiece. Not a fan of the color? You can change the brick color in the options, or use the paint tool to change the shade of your creation or alter existing terrain. Building isn’t the only draw here, however. The items and Discover mode is where a lot of the charm comes in.
During my hands-on preview, everything was already unlocked, so I got a good taste of the sheer amount of items I would be able to use. In the weapons section, I had several exciting options like a megazooka (a bazooka, but mega), carrot launcher, ice bow, troll club, and so much more. Seriously, there are a lot of weapons you can find in the game, and actually use! For anyone that’s wondering, the megazooka creates a much larger crater in the terrain than the bazooka. I tried it out several times… Speaking of creating a hole in the terrain, the drill vehicle is especially handy for tunneling deeper in a short amount of time. Though when I tried the vehicle (one of many) out I ran into an unfortunate bug. For some reason, when I dug into the ground, the procedurally generated environment rendered at a snail’s pace. Granted, I was experiencing a ton of bugs at that point that didn’t seemed to be shared by the players nearby, but it was still unfortunate to see. The only way to stop the issue was to leave the vehicle and hop out of burrow I just dug.
For the remainder of my time, I honed my skills as an expert horse whisperer. After discovering that I could interact with a horse by tossing it an apple—which you’d normally have to find in the environment, but was unlocked for me—my new friend followed me around the map. Because having only one horse was boring, I tossed apples to five of his buddies and had a group of them following me. After that, I used the discover tool to teleport unlocked animals like rabbits, cows, and even a polar bear! I had a zoo in no time—and it was awesome. Sure, it’s probably not the aim of the game, but it was fun, and a perfect demonstration of how many things you can do to entertain yourself beyond building. Not great at building, no worries! Just pop in a pre-built building with the Discover tool. While I did run into several bugs during my brief hands-on time with the early PS4 build, LEGO Worlds already showed charming potential. As Niels Jørgensen, Vice President of Digital Games for the LEGO Group, put it, “LEGO Worlds brings the very essence of LEGO play—building—to the digital world, more than ever before.”