The Game Awards nominees were announced earlier today and LEGO has two nominees in the Best Family category. The two games in the category include LEGO Party! and LEGO Voyagers which were both released back in September. They have a 33% to win the category as they are going against four other contenders, Donkey Kong Banaza, Mario Kart World, Sonic Racing: Crossworlds, and Split Faction. Voting has now started and the show will be on December 11.

Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

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The party game genre has been a staple in the gaming space for years now and the latest addition is LEGO Party! The game was released back in September with a decent fanfare and promotion. We’ve finally had some time to play the game for a little bit and here are my impressions of it.

At first look, you could say that LEGO Party! is a distant offspring of one of the more popular games of this genre, Mario Party. The game features 60 LEGO minifigures that you can unlock while playing 60 different minigames in Challenge Zones which include, Pirate, Ninjago, Space, and Theme Park. Depending on how long you want to play, you can also customize the number of rounds from the shortest (6 rounds/45 minutes in Pirate Zone) to the longest (24 rounds/180 minutes in Theme Park Zone).

If you want to play some faster games, you can do the Minigame Rush where you play a series of themed minigames to win the most studs. You can also do practice runs of each of the 60 minigames as well.

For the Score Chaser mode, you can try to do your highest score from a selection of five minigames.

While setting up the games, you can either play locally with friend or the CPU or you can host online games by sending out a room code. If you play locally with the CPU, you can also adjust the opponents’ skill levels.

As for the character customization, you can use one of the many preset … Continue