What are y'all's Poker Night 3 dream roster? Mine is:
Clementine
TF2 Spy
Peter Griffin
Nostalgia Critic
Gman or the Administrator as the dealer

Played during the free weekend on Steam and uh, its fine... not for goddamn $60 or $40 on sale or even worse, the infamous "double expensive fuck you give us $100+ for battle passes and skins and extra shit" edition that every game 2K has nowadays.

For a lil background: I was looking forward into playing this because Lego was a part of my childhood, especially the games, specifically Lego Indiana Jones, Lego Star Wars, Lego Batman and that Lego RC Racer Flash game back in the day. While I sorta grew out of it, only having to watch the Lego movie, so i had missed out on the modern lego games like city undercover or Marvels superheroes/Avengers or DC super villains or the updated Lego Star Wars saga, I was willing to give this a shot since its akin to The Crew 2 but with Legos, being able to switch from Regular on road car to an off road to a boat in a flash. But knowing 2Ks practices and greedy ass nature, I passed on it for a while until i waited for a sale. So when it had a free weekend i was looking forward to it, albeit I played it pretty last minute on the final day so i only had 4 hrs of playtime but i think that's enough.

First thing I see when i boot up the game is that i need a 2K account, So i had to dig up an old ass 2K account i havent used in forever, because you need that for the following:
-Unkie monkey's Shop which can net you better vehicles
-The community made cars to download into your garage and drive in game
-Multiplayer
and so on

So you have to get an account to experience 50% of the game, which is bullshit right from the jump, then the game begins..

Game starts out with you being the new racer on the block being trained by Clutch Racington to defeat the big bad Shadow Z, With S.T.U.D assisting you and acting as a guide to the world. Speaking of which, the tutorials is so bombarding that i just skip most of it because i wanted to get to the open world and the races. the former being the highlight and the latter being ok but with one HUGE problem that ill get to in a second.

The races play like your average kart racer but the tracks are fun with that feature of transforming your vehicle on the fly, like ive said before, On road its your supercar, sports car, electric car, etc., off road its your atvs, trucks and even a drivable saucer, and in the sea its jetskis and boats, and when i say on the fly, i mean INSTANT. Seamless. and the driving feels better than expected. You can even drift! which is a miracle after playing NFS Unbound which you cant properly drift for shit. But for that HUGE problem, I cant recommend playing this game for the racing since its frame rate dips HARD during races. Even if you downgrade the resolution scale or graphics settings. (I'm willing to bet its that damned denuvo DRM shitting the frame rate alongside the constant unreal engine 4 stutters) Which is funny because in the open world sandbox it actually runs well despite having to render a larger map (well 4 different open zones) on the fly.

Speaking of which, the sandbox mode is a highlight and reminds me of shit like burnout paradise with the open world, only with a LOT more destruction physics like you can destroy other cars, destroy environment (except houses this aint Bad Company) and run over lego civvies, obviously they're not dead its a kids game but its funny knocking them on their asses. And the open world does reward such exploration and you smashing vehicles acting as collectibles rewards you with money to buy cars and different racers and XP to level up to race. Even have powerups such as jetpacks later on in the game which lets you not necessarily fly, but hover.

The progression isn't as smooth as id like it to be tbh, while You level up after finishing races but then the game starts to halt your progress and pad it out with minigames including destroying robots from destroying generators, getting car parts to repair someone's car and saving civvies from zombies, while the novelty is fun the first time around, it gets old pretty fast.

So in my 4hrs of playing, I'd say wait for a deep, DEEP sale and for 2K remove fuckin Denuvo or patch the frame rate which probably is unlikely given they're shitting out NBA and WWE games annually.