LEGO Worlds is an adventure game for PC. And to get this out of the way, it could just have easily have been called LEGO Minecraft. The game is currently still under construction (get it) in Steam's Early Access, but you can purchase it now in its unfinished state. LEGO Worlds catches the essence of the Minecraft series adds it to the LEGO universe. Indeed, given how Mincraft took inspiration from LEGO (albeit in digital form), you could see this as closing the circle. Each game of LEGO Worlds starts in a randomly generated environment. For now there are no concrete objectives, but that doesn’t stop you being able to find LEGO pieces and using them to build prefabricated designs like medieval castles, spaceships, and the like. Basically, bringing your toys to life in its virtual world. You are driven to explore each environment thanks to the variety of each virtual LEGO world. Being adventurous has its rewards, because each virtual world hides multiple coin filled chests - coins that allow you to buy more things to construct.
In some boxes you can also find weapons. Well, LEGO Worlds is full of characters and animals of all kinds: vampires, horses, pigs, zombies... Some of which you can probably see are going to be more friendly than others. Graphically, LEGO Worlds is notably more detailed than default Minecraft. Effects such as reflections, lights, and shadows fill each area, and look great. Plus there is a day/night cycle; fun, if only because sunrise and sunset look fantastic. Currently LEGO Worlds is very incomplete. You can explore, build, drive, ride animals, and unlock more structures. But there is still much to do before it’s finished - with multiplayer, more environments, the ability to share your creations online, better tools, and character customization still all needed. Luckily there is time, as the full game won't be released until 2016. Is LEGO Worlds worth a download at the moment? If the concept of LEGO Minecraft appeals then certainly - but keep in mind that you are paying for a demo.
If you are after a full a full game, you should wait a little longer. Check out the latest video! View the Image Gallery LEGO® Worlds is an open environment of procedurally-generated Worlds made entirely of LEGO bricks which you can freely manipulate and dynamically populate with LEGO models. Create anything you can imagine one brick at a time, or use large-scale landscaping tools to create vast mountain ranges and dot your world with tropical islands. Drop in prefabricated structures to build and customize any world to your liking. Explore using helicopters, dragons, motorbikes or even gorillas and unlock treasures that enhance your gameplay. Watch your creations come to life through characters and creatures that interact with you and each other in unexpected ways. In LEGO Worlds, anything is possible! LEGO® Worlds is currently in Early Access, so be sure to keep coming back for news on updates and plans for future development, as well as discussions with the people behind the scenes.
Explore and Discover the Surprises within LEGO® Worlds • Uncover hidden treasures in environments that range from the fun to the fantastical • Make your worlds come to life with customizable characters, both friendly and fearsome • Race, soar, zoom, and ride on a variety of vehicles and creatures from diggers and helicopters to horses and dragons Create and Customize your own LEGO World • Build any world you can imagine using the brick-by-brick editor tool and prefabricated LEGO structures • Modify terrain quickly and easily with the multi-tool. • Customize your characters in a wide variety of outfits and options. • Play with a select number of real-life LEGO sets, taken from the Classic and current LEGO themes! • Export your creations and save them to use again. Expand your LEGO World • Share and play in your friends’ worlds • More content, features, and new LEGO play sets to be added in future updates.
The game, while available to play, is still in development so it’ll be missing certain features and will have its fair share of bugs – but hey, that’s the development process. It also gives players the chance to feed back to the developers to make the finished product even better than originally planned. Warner Bros. has announced the price of Lego Worlds, and we suspect it's going to make plenty of fans pretty happy. When the game launches in February it will sell for just £24.99, well below the typical launch price of a major game like this. You can also pre-order the game right now to guarantee yourself a copy. Amazon is offering pre-orders of both the PS4 and Xbox One editions of the game for £24.99. However, you can get the game even cheaper if you want to play on PC, and you won't even have to wait to play it. The game is still available through Steam Early Access in its nearly final state, and you can buy it for just £11.99 right now - less than half the game's full price.
It will even update to the full retail version when the game comes out at no additional cost, so it really makes no sense to wait until February if you want the Lego Worlds on PC. So, what can you do in Lego Worlds? It’s reminiscent of Minecraft, with open world capabilities and crafting and exploring being the main focuses of the game. Crafting buildings and statues from digital Lego seems to be the next step along from playing with physical Lego – how time changes eh? Who else would’ve loved for their Lego creations to come to life? We know we would, and we’re excited to delve into this digital Lego world. As with Minecraft, you’re able to explore all that your eye can see – and then some. There are hidden treasures hidden all over the map in environments that Lego claims “range from the fun to the fantastical”, and these can be found with friends as Lego Worlds allows users to share and play in friends’ worlds. With huge maps, Lego has decided to add interesting ways to get around that include helicopters, horses and even dragons.
For those of you that are interested in going through a mountain instead of around it, that’s possible too thanks to the digger. That variety will be another of Lego Worlds' key appeals above and beyond Minecraft. Lego claims that it ranges from "cowboys riding giraffes to vampires scaring Yetis," and that's barely scratching the surface of just how varied the gameplay and worlds can get. This will likely continue to be expanded on long into the game's life through downloadable content packs. Read next: Best board games As well as exploring, creation is a huge part of Lego Worlds. You can build anything you can imagine using the brick-by-brick editor, or you can opt for dragging and dropping pre-built Lego structures into your world. But what about terrain? There’s no quick way to tweak the terrain in Minecraft, but you’re supplied with terrain-editing tools in Lego Worlds to create any landscape that you could possibly imagine. It offers something slightly different to what Minecraft offers, as some people dislike the blocky nature of the popular sandbox game.
The great thing about Lego is that pretty much everyone has used Lego at some point in their lives, and it encourages creativity more than using 4x4 patterned squares. Lego Worlds also includes multiplayer, both offline split-screen multiplayer and online multiplayer, so that you can share your creations, build together, and enjoy both competitive and cooperative multiplayer games. See also: The best Lego sets of 2016 Lego Worlds isn't even out yet, but we already know about the game's first batch of downloadable content. Warner Bros. has announced the Lego Agents DLC pack, which will include "new characters, vehicles, weapons and more from the Agents range." We don't know when the Lego Agents DLC will be out, but we do know it's bad news for PC and Xbox One players: it will be a PS4 exclusive for the first 90 days. First of all, check out the game's latest trailer, which announces the official release date as well as giving a great overview of what Lego Worlds has to offer: