Rims Racing Review (PlayStation 5)
For our Rims Racing Review, we take on the first motorcycling simulation that combines a realistic riding challenge with engineering and mechanics! Ride the world’s most powerful bikes and optimize their performance by swapping out parts and analyzing data in real-time.
Rims Racing Review Pros:
- Nice graphics.
- 13.62GB download size.
- Platinum trophy.
- Racing gameplay.
- 3 career difficulties – novice, semi-pro, and pro.
- 3 physics simulation levels – beginner, intermediate and realistic.
- Begins with a tutorial event.
- 6 driving views including handlebar and helmet views, can be changed on the fly.
- Change the bike setup whilst racing to change how it reacts.
- Braking system – combined or separated.
- Full Dual Sense integration as you feel every bump, every gear change, and hear it all with the built-in speaker.
- Can rebind controls.
- Over the top spectacular crashes.
- Fuel – run out and its race over, use the pits to refill and you can do fast pit stops.
- Manual respawn button.
- Rims race card shows stats and rider/fame levels.
- Multiplayer houses online challenges, online custom events, and offline duels.
- Online challenges are a set of events that change weekly and you compete on the leaderboards for unique rewards.
- Online custom events – create a single race lobby, create a cup lobby, quickly join a lobby, quick join a cup lobby, and join the public lobby.
- Lobby options-general settings, track, conditions, and rules.
- Rules – qualifying, qualifying duration, laps/attempts, max Ai opponents, Ai performance slider, starting position, wear, and false starts.
- Single-player – career, single race, private testing, academy, and racing tutorials.
- Motorbike stand – workshop, change bike, tuning, and engineering.
- Official motorbike brands – Aprilia, BMW, Ducati, Honda, Kawasaki, Agusta, Suzuki, and Yamaha.
- Rider customisation – body type, nationality, feet on start, cornering style, braking leg out, braking fingers, and rider equipment.
- Career mode is a series of events with unique rules and scoring to go through them.
- Photorealistic locations.
- Bass-heavy soundtrack.
- Motorbike Status Check is where you get a cool breakdown of the whole bike and its parts to see things like wear, damage, or remaining fuel. This menu can be brought up during the race and gives real-time stats.
- Photo mode.
- Realistic handling regardless of settings.
- Get immediate feedback on penalties or investigations during a race.
- Constant tutorial pop-ups and explanations.
- One for the true motorbike fans and players.
Rims Racing Review Cons:
- It’s got a huge learning curve for new players from the handling to the braking.
- The game expects you to know a lot beforehand.
- Had the noise coming through the speaker even when I was in photo mode.
- Not the biggest selection of bikes.
- This is not aimed at getting new players into the genre.
- Only brief histories on the bikes and manufacturers.
- Slow to start as you get bombarded with tutorials and information pop-ups.
- The dual sense is so finely tuned and rare to see that the whole tension on the triggers takes a lot of getting used to and makes power management tricky.
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Rims Racing:
Developer: raceward studio
Publisher: Nacon
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