LEGO Speedorz, a racing mobile game developed by Warner Bros. International Enterprises, takes the player into the fantasy world of Chima and pits your LEGO avatar and its Speedor against many different characters from the Chima universe. With over 10 million downloads on the Google Play Store and Apple iTunes and a rating of 3.9 aggregated from over 215,000 reviews, it’s clear that LEGO Speedorz is popular. However, is this game worthy of its popularity and ratings? The following review takes a look at the good and bad aspects of LEGO Speedorz while providing tips, tricks, and cheats to help you get the most out of your time playing.
ILEGO Speedorz (Legends of Chima) is a mobile game based on both the LEGO Speedorz brick building set and the corresponding Legends of Chima animated show that ran from January 2013 to November 2014 on Cartoon Network. In order to fully appreciate the mobile game, it’s important to realize that:
It’s a LEGO game, and as such features graphics and gameplay styled off of the famous LEGO brick sets.
The characters and the Speedorz are taken from the Legends of Chima television show. While the game provides some basic information about a few of the characters, it’s easier to appreciate the game knowing at least the basic premise behind the television show.
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The land of Chima is a beautiful expanse that is home to many different animal tribes. These animals are anthropomorphic and represent many different animals such as Lions, Crocodiles, Wolves, Mammoths, Tigers, Vultures and a plethora of other species. These animals form tribes based off of species and though there had been peace for over 1000 years, tensions broil among the tribes over control of Chi – a source of energy used to power weapons and Speedorz (vehicles used to traverse the large land of Chima and that are reminiscent of a motorcycle)
The story follows Laval the Lion and Cragger the Crocodile, who were friends from a very young age.
Laval is the prince of the Lion tribe and has a penchant for acting out, a tendency that goes against the ordered rules of the Lions.
Cragger the Crocodile was always extremely-competitive and that trait and his general seriousness complemented Laval’s relaxed attitude.
The Lion and Crocodile tribes were never fond of each other, but when Cragger discovered the power the Chi gave him, he lost a part of himself in pursuit of power and victory. That spelled the end of the friendship between Laval and Cragger and the end of peace for the tribes of Chima.
LEGO Speedorz is a spinoff of the main plot and involves using your customized LEGO character and one of many Speedorz to race against Laval, Cragger, and many of the other characters that appear in Legends of Chima television show.
As in many other LEGO games, in LEGO Speedorz the player is able to choose from a variety of Head, Torso, and Leg pieces to customize their character as much as they desire. The player starts out with a choice of two different options for each slot, and unlocks more through finishing race circuits in a certain amount of time.
The shop is used to purchase higher quality Speedorz using ‘studs’, a currency you get through racing and other actions in the game. There are no micro-transactions in the game so there are few shortcuts to unlocking all the vehicles. For information on how to get studs as quickly as possible, take a look at the Tips, Tricks, and Cheats section further down in the article.
The main draw to LEGO Speedorz other than its affiliation with the brick sets and television series, is the racing.
There are three different leagues in the game: The Tribal Cup, The Royal Cup, and The Super Cup, and within each league there are six different opponents with gradually increasing difficulty. The opponents are all recognizable from the television show:
The Tribal Cup features races against Warrior, Leonidas, Crawley, Eglor, Cragger, and Laval.
The Royal Cup features races against Windra, Rawsom, Worris, Eris, Crominus, and Lagravis.
The Super Cup features races against Skunk, Fox, Grizzam, Gorzan, Super Cragger, and Super Laval.
The parts used for customization of your LEGO animal racer are taken from the models from each opponent. By defeating the characters in under certain times, you can unlock the head, torso, and legs of each character you challenge.
In LEGO Speedorz, The track you race on, regardless of which opponent you challenge, is made up of the same three areas: The Falling Jungle, the Rhino Canyon, and the Swamps. Despite having an identical makeup, the track is slightly more interesting than it sounds as there are often multiple paths you can take to reach the end.
When you hit start on the main screen, you’re taken to the character select screen where the player chooses from available parts to customize their LEGO avatar. There’s a randomize button that will build a random character from the parts you have available. The next screen prompts you to choose your Speedor. Each one looks a little different and offers different values in speed and handling. As mentioned above you can unlock new Speedor using studs gathered from races. The player then selects which Cup they’d like to race in. Initially only the Tribal Cup is available for selection, but after completing all 6 races you unlock the Royal Cup. The Super Cup is unlocked similarly by completing all of the races in the Royal Cup.
The last screen before loading into the race is where you select which opponent you’d like to face. Under each opponent’s portrait there are 0-3 stars displayed. For each race in LEGO Speedorz, there’s three time thresholds that, upon beaten, will award a star and the corresponding body part. As you move further on in the game, nothing about the courses changes. The difficulty factor lies in the lower time thresholds you must beat to unlock parts.
After making all these selections, it’s time to load in and race.
Unlike many other racing games, there’s no real steering per se. LEGO Speedorz allows control in the form of left and right button that allow you to make the Speedor drift. Left alone, the LEGO character and its Speedor will complete the race autonomously. By drifting, however, you can pick up studs and Chi. The studs, as discussed above, are used as currency for better quality Speedorz. The Chi you collect adds the only strategic element to the game’s racing.
The chi you collect can be expended by pulling an orange cord to activate a sort of overdrive that massively increases your speed and makes you invincible. Your invincibility allows you to plow through obstacles that would normally stop your Speedor dead in its tracks. Another quirk to the cord is that once you pull it, it starts to slowly rise back towards the top of the screen. You can pull the Chi cord whenever you desire so long as you have the chi for it, but a full pull – that is, a pull from the top to the bottom of the screen – gives you faster speed for a longer time than pulling the cord right after activating an overdrive.
As you race through the course, there are varied targets you can hit that will give you a few extra chi. At higher levels, it’s necessary to utilize these challenges in order to have enough Chi to stay ahead of your opponent.
Speaking of opponents, you don’t actually see the opponent you’re racing against during the race. The only indication to where the computer-controlled Speedor is is a red arrow at the top of the screen. By judging your position in relation to the opponent, you can use your Chi to catch up or keep your lead.
When you open LEGO Speedorz each session, make sure you check the ‘Cool Stuff tab where you can find the Bio, News, and Videos sections. For opening each of these sections initially, you receive a bonus of studs that can help towards buying your first Speedor.
A message at the bottom of the screen reads “Check back regularly for the latest new, videos, and free-to-collect studs to spend in the Speedor Store”
The Bios section gives you a brief overview of the relationship between Laval and Cragger.
The News section launches an external browser on your phone and gives you the opportunity to explore the latest news in LEGO Chima.
The Webs section has mini Webisodes of the Legends of Chima series.
Another trick to maximize your stud gain is to take advantage of the little challenges laid out throughout the race course. By stockpiling Chi you can use the overdrive boosts to collect more studs and unlock more races. The more difficult leagues correspondingly give more studs, so it’s in a player’s best interest to unlock the Super Cup as soon as possible.
As a fan of LEGOs even in adulthood, I really had high hopes for this game. A lot of the other LEGO games I have played, though designed with children in mind, proved fun for all ages. Unfortunately, LEGO Speedorz falls flat for anyone other than a young child, in my opinion. The racing is frustratingly simplistic and it’s difficult to control your Speedor accurately due to having to rely on drifting as your only form of control. The races, even when barely paying attention, should prove largely trivial to anyone with any level of gaming experience. There is also not a huge amount of content. While a game without a ton of content wouldn’t normally be a huge deal, it severely retracts from the playtime considering most players won’t hit a difficulty wall that you normally find in a lot of games.
The UI came across as boring, rather than simplistic and functional. Another major complaint I have is that the game crashed repeatedly or took forever to load on my mobile phone. I was playing LEGO Speedorz on a Galaxy S6 Edge which is one of the more powerful devices currently on the market. If the game locked up and crashed on my device, I worry about how it will perform on a mid-range android. I will say, however, that a lot of the current reviews on the google play store echo my complaints about long loading times and crashing, but previous reviews say things run very smoothly. This may just be an issue with the current version that could be corrected in the near future.
One plus I have to give to the game is that there are no micro-transactions. This review, though mostly negative, should be taken with a grain of salt as LEGO Speedorz is a completely free experience .The game is entirely free of Ads and premium currency which is increasingly rare as the years go on.
Overall I’d say this is a good game to keep younger children occupied and has little use outside of that. Even for fans of the television series, a group that I would normally recommend a spinoff game to, this game is probably worth passing over as the story in this incarnation is largely non-existent.
Artwork: LEGO Speedorz has great art assets for its characters and Speedorz that reflect the classic LEGO style. The environment, while pretty, gets boring quickly as there is only one course for the game. Rating: 7/10
Music / Sound Effects: The music is pretty and relatively varied. I generally turn the default music off when I play games, and didn’t feel the need to do that with this one. 5/10
Story / Originality: There’s almost no story, and for a game with the subtitle Legends of Chima, it does very little to explain who characters are or their significance. Next to zero originality outside of the Chi cord as this is generally a watered down version of any other mobile racer. 2/10
General Gameplay: Gameplay is repetitive and not super enjoyable for anyone outside of a young child. Bugs or poor optimization caused my game to crash frequently or hang forever on loading screens. This game would probably keep a small child occupied for a while, however, and that is the audience LEGO is shooting for with this game 3/10
Addictiveness: I don’t think I’d play this game again after doing a couple of the races as it pretty much recycles the content. 1/10
Overall Rating: This game was disappointing to me as a LEGO fan, and there were a lot of technical issues. I don’t think this game will appeal to any serious gamers, but that’s not who LEGO created this game for. I believe this will serve as a decent distraction to younger kids but has little value outside of that. 4/10