LEGO has just launched their bid to take on the mighty behemoth that is Minecraft. Just arrived on Steam Early Access is LEGO Worlds, which features a fully customisable world from terrain editing to building anything out of LEGO.
It includes ‘prefabricated models’ from popular LEGO sets and there are various worlds to explore. It seems we’ll also be able to populate our worlds with NPC characters to interact with. It’s a single-player sandbox for now.
Developed by TT Games, this plastic studded sandbox is available to the masses on Early Access for £11.99 and they expect to have most if not all features up and running by the end of 2015, and look to fully release in early 2016.
Currently LEGO Worlds features:
▪ Procedurally Generated Worlds
▪ Terrforming and Building tools
▪ Discoveries and Unlocks
▪ Rideable Creatures and Vehicles
▪ Day/Night Cycle
The studio plan to add many more things over the coming months, including the ability to play online together, as otherwise this would be a big waste if they seriously wanted to contend with Minecraft.
Planned LEGO Worlds features:
▪ Like/Dislike system for tailoring World Generation
▪ Procedurally Generated Underground Cave Networks
▪ LEGO ID integration to allow for sharing and uploading of in-game builds
▪ Additional Biomes
▪ Painting Themes
▪ Pre-Generated Towns/Villages/Settlements relevant to the Biome
▪ Updated AI Behaviors to provide organic feeling to free-roaming creatures and characters
▪ Red Brick Extras
▪ Full liquid behaviors
▪ Additional Minifigure Characters and Creatures
▪ Additional Vehicles and Pre-Built Models
▪ Additional Weapons
▪ Cut/Copy/Paste chunks of landscape
▪ Underwater Gameplay (including Vehicles, Creatures and additional sea life)
▪ Character Customizer
▪ Online Multiplayer
Check out LEGO Worlds on Steam Early Access for more. Start the clock for the first recreation of Westeros, and maybe the map from LEGO Island. Remember that?
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