Add to your Christmas cheer by having some fun with the new free downloadable Winter Wonderland themed expansion to the LEGO WORLDS video game. This game lets you play with classic LEGO toys within digital worlds that are shaped by players' imaginations. Spend your time creating your own playscape in sandbox mode from LEGO accessories, mini-figures and bricks or participate in a variety of challenges and missions that the game presents for you to take on in its adventure setting. Now you can enjoy winter themed characters, vehicles and places that are sure to put you in the holiday spirit while you play the game.
Past expansion packs (Space / Monsters) have cost $3.99 to download but the Winter Wonderland DLC is free. If you are just purchasing LEGO WORLDS for the first time this holiday themed content will be included with your initial install on your video game console or PC. For those of you who already have the game you'll need to install an update that can be easily downloaded. Have yourself some fun exploring a new location that includes a village decorated in holiday lights, an ice castle, and snow covered landscapes.
In Adventure Mode you can find the Winter Wonderland Biome on the outside edge of your galaxy map. Just look for a world map with a big candy cane on it. After exploring the Winter Wonderland, players will then be able to find it in the “Create New World” option which will let you customize the place to your liking and utilize its accessories, buildings, mini-figures, and vehicles as you like within the game's sandbox mode.
Unlock new playable characters such as carol singers and penguins with the Winter Wonderland expansion to LEGO WORLDS. Fly Santa's Sleigh through the sky or take a toy airplane for a flight.
Decorate your world with Christmas Trees or build yourself an ice castle. There are numerous new accessories and buildings added to your Brick Build Showcase. Have fun discovering all the new objects and elements now available on LEGO WORLDS through the Winter Wonderland DLC. This really is a wonderful way for LEGO to wish people a Merry Christmas through the gift of this new expansion pack.
LEGO WORLDS is available for PlayStation 4, XBOX One, STEAM and Nintendo Switch. Based upon all the fun my family has had playing this great game, this game absolutely has earned A GEEK DADDY nod of approval. We had a blast playing the Monsters Pack during Halloween and my kids have been having a great time with the Winter Wonderland in the days leading up to Christmas. For more information, please visit lw.wbgames.com or check out their social media feeds on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter or YouTube.
My kids always enjoy playing the LEGO WORLDS video game. This game lets you play with classic LEGO toys within digital worlds that are shaped by players' imaginations. Spend your time creating your own playscape in sandbox mode from LEGO accessories, mini-figures and bricks or participate in a variety of challenges and missions that the game presents for you to take on in its adventure setting.
Making the game even more spook-tacular, a new Monster themed downloadable themed content pack is now available just in time for Halloween. The Monsters Pack which costs $3.99 to download adds Monster Town, a peculiar place full of scary quests, terrifying creatures, haunted houses and ghastly vehicles that provides a setting where Halloween is celebrated every day. Halloween is one of my favorite times of the year so I find that to be a really cool aspect to be added to the LEGO WORLDS video game!
LEGO WORLDS also recently released a FREE game update that people who own the game can download. This update provides some exciting new features to make building and exploring within the game easier and more fun. Aspiring directors can now create movies within the game with the newly added Camera Car too which films a player's action sequences within LEGO WORLDS. There is also a new tool called The Planner which is designed to let people build LEGO structures faster.
Another new addition is the Discovery Menu which makes it easier for players to find what they are looking for while playing the game; while the Landscape Tool improves on how people can edit the worlds they design. There are also major updates to the Copy Tool, Galaxy Map, Waypoints and other tools that will improve your LEGO WORLDS experience.
LEGO WORLDS is available for PlayStation 4, XBOX One, STEAM and Nintendo Switch. Based upon all the fun my family has had playing this great game, this game absolutely has earned A GEEK DADDY nod of approval. We've had a blast playing the Monsters Pack this Halloween weekend and if you are a LEGO fan this is a game you really need to play. For more information, please visit lw.wbgames.com or check out their social media feeds on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter or YouTube.
There has been a major update to the LEGO Worlds video game that is playable on Playstation 4, Xbox One and STEAM. Now players no longer need to complete the game's adventure mode to access its freestyle building sandbox mode. People who have purchased the game can download this free update which adds LEGO NEXO KNIGHTS and LEGO City characters, creatures, structures, props and vehicles as well as immediately unlocks sandbox mode. The update also fixes and improves the game's user interface to make the menus and tools easier to use.
The biggest aspect of the update is providing immediate unlimited access to sandbox mode which allows players to let their imagination run wild in designing their own world made from LEGO bricks, accessories and mini-figures. Players can now skip the LEGO Worlds' tutorials and adventure mode if they desire because all of the elements of the game are now unlocked for them in sandbox mode. Customizing their own landscapes, buildings and characters is what my kids really enjoy about this game but they've been limited because its been a slow progression for them through the adventure mode to gain access to a variety of things that are now automatically accessible through the unlocked sandbox mode. They love this update!
My kids are also very excited that the video game has added elements of two of their favorite LEGO themes to it in LEGO NEXO KNIGHTS and LEGO City. That is just the beginning though! Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, TT Games, and The LEGO Group are promising more new themes are coming based off of the existing LEGO toy sets. With a LEGO Ninjago movie coming to theaters don't be surprised to see that theme pop up soon. I'm personally hoping for a Speed Champions theme with some racing options in it to really get my interest in joining my kids playing this game. What LEGO toy products would you like to see incorporated into the game?
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After successfully taking on Disney Infinity and Skylanders in the toys-to-life video game category by creating the highly successful LEGO Dimensions, The LEGO Group has set their sights on tackling another gaming franchise popular with kids and young adults -- > Minecraft. LEGO Worlds developed by TT Games and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment allows players to explore a galaxy of fantastical planets that contain inhabitants and landscapes made up entirely of LEGO's trademark toy mini-figures and building bricks. Embark on a quest to become a Master Builder within this open-world video game that provides players to power to shape both the environment around them and the scope of their adventures. In LEGO Worlds your own creativity and imagination are often times the only limitation to the extent of the adventures you can engage in and creations that can be built within the game.
LEGO Worlds, like its predecessor Minecraft, is what is referred to as a sandbox game which means that players have a great deal of flexibility in shaping the virtual environment they are playing in. A sandbox game focuses on bringing people's imaginations to life through constructing and customizing a virtual world to play in. LEGO Worlds takes the fun of playing with real-life physical LEGO toys and expands upon it in an entertaining video game experience. This game has really been a hit with my kids primarily because they can have fun just being creative doing whatever suits their whims as they are playing it. Creating world layouts, constructing their own building designs from LEGO bricks, and customizing the appearance of a player's mini-figure character are really what capture my kids attention.
LEGO Worlds begins with a video sequence that shows your character flying a spaceship that is suddenly hit by a meteorite forcing it to crash land on a mysterious planet. This sets the stage for three tutorial levels players need to make their way through. In these levels new
characters and vehicles can be added to your playable assets Players also obtain a variety of tools to
help them create things and customize the world around them in these levels. Short instructional video segments explain how to utilize these important tools once they are obtained. Challenges within the level then let a player practice using them.
The game starts with your character crash landing on Pirate
World. While exploring this first tutorial level players will learn to utilize the Discovery Tool. This device allows animals, buildings, mini-figures (both friends and foes), and
vehicles to be scanned and catalogs them in a gallery which players can access to place these
items within the game whenever they like.
Next players travel to a Prehistoric World where they learn to use the
Landscape Tool which raises and lowers terrain. Rescue several cave men
and cave women from dangerous situations to successfully complete the
level and move on to Candy World.
The final tutorial level is filled with giant candy canes, lollipops and
gingerbread houses and provides players with three more useful items --
the Copy, Paint and Build tools. Don't want to try and build a
structure brick-by-brick? Use the Copy Tool to replicate an already
completed building instead. Want to change the color of a building or
the landscape around you? Go wild with the Paint Tool. If you would
prefer building a structure from bottom to top instead of replicating
one the Build Tool lets players construct things just as if they
were building with real life LEGO bricks. Note though you start off
with a very limited number of accessible bricks to utilize and earn more
of a variety progressing through the game.
Once you've completed the three tutorial levels and obtained these
important tool options then it is time to jump into your space ship and
explore the galaxy. You'll be transported to randomly computer-generated planets each time your character launches the space ship into outer space. Planets our family have visited so far include an apocalyptic
junk world filled with cowboys and bandits, a swampland filled with
alligators and spooky walking skeletons, and a farming community being
plagued by zombies. This game is filled with lots and lots of the quirky, whimsical
elements that people associate with LEGO (ride a cow, use a fish as a
sword, throw a banana like a boomerang) and love about the brand.
Unlike LEGO Dimensions this game isn't focused on licensed properties like Batman, The Simpsons, or Sonic the Hedgehog. Rather the content of the game revolves around generic themes from the LEGO toy line such as astronauts, farmers, police, and pirates. There aren't any physical toys sets that need to be purchased for activating characters in this game like you need to do with LEGO Dimensions. When it comes to LEGO Worlds as you discover different types of people, animals and vehicles in the game they can be incorporated into your gallery of digital playable items by scanning them with your Discovery Tool.
Players also can earn points as they play LEGO Worlds that can be utilized to obtain virtual reproductions of real-life LEGO classic and current toy sets that can be placed within the game and interacted with. The goal of LEGO Worlds though isn't to earn points but rather to become a Master Builder by getting your hands on 100 of the elusive gold bricks that can be found within the game. The more gold bricks players obtain the larger and more immersive worlds they can interact with ranging from small worlds that can be accessed with ten bricks to huge ones that can be visited when you've grabbed eighty. When 100 gold bricks are obtained players are no longer restricted to visiting randomly generated planets and can construct a world from scratch using their tools any item they've unlocked within the game. Gold bricks can be obtained by finding them in treasure chests, as rewards for successfully completing a quest, or by snatching one from creatures called a Troublemakers.
The game can be played by two people at once on a console or an online feature can be utilized that allows multiple players to explore each other's worlds together, collaborate on building LEGO creations, and engage in cooperative or competitive experiences. My kids have played duel player mode but haven't interacted online with anyone. They've had a lot of fun both working together and harassing each other. One minute they're getting along together racing on horses through a jungle and the next my son is throwing his sister into a lava filled volcano because her character stole a popsicle from his. That's kids for you!
The immersive environment of LEGO Worlds which entices kids to engage in imaginative play earns this video game A Geek Daddynod of approval. I have to point out though that this game isn't just for kids. After my children have gone to bed, this 40 something year old dad has enjoyed playing LEGO Worlds to wind down after a long day. So obviously LEGO Worlds is a fun game for both kids and kids-at-heart. Based upon my family's own experience playing LEGO Worlds, I recommend adding it to your video game collection.
LEGO Worlds is now available in North America for Sony's PlayStation 4 computer entertainment system, Microsoft's Xbox One, and the STEAM online PC gaming community. The game will also be available for Nintendo Switch later this year. For more information, please visit www.lego.com/en-us/worlds
