Lego 2K Goooal! rated in South Korea

Title of unannounced 2K and Lego soccer game spotted
Lego 2K Goooal! rated in South Korea
Lego 2K Goooal! rated in South Korea /

Lego and 2K’s gaming partnership has not only resulted in the recently released Lego 2K Drive: The Game Rating and Administration Committee of Korea (GRAC) appears to have rated another Lego 2K title by the name of Goooal!, according to Gematsu.

This strongly suggests a soccer-themed game, which would confirm a report by VGC from last year about 2K and Lego striking a deal involving the release of several sports games. Back then, Sumo Digital’s soccer game was thought to be the first one to come out, followed by the racing title that eventually became open-world racer Lego 2K Drive. Things seem to have turned out the other way around in practice, but in general terms the report hit the nail on the head.

A third Lego 2K sports game seems to be in development as well, so there will be more on that front following Goooal! as well. With the game being publicly rated in South Korea already, it'll most likely only be a question of time until an official announcement by 2K will come out.

Lego 2K Drive was heavily criticized for its use of in-game microtransactions targeting children, so it’ll be interesting to see if 2K, which is known for leaning heavily into in-game monetization in its sports games, tones that down a bit in the upcoming game.

Supposedly, bad PR at its prior video games partner, TT Games, contributed to Lego stopping their exclusive partnership and coming to an agreement with 2K in the first place, so a repeat performance of that fiasco might not bode all too well for the partnership’s future.


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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg