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Message: [QUOTE="RZ05, post: 13471780, member: 286107"] So I got a chance to play the game and I don't understand the point. The gameplay actually isn't terrible but it's no more a "sim" than the Ride games. The rider action is jerky and odd. The slowness in turning I've read people speak of is simply this. Most bike games from the 3rd person view choose one of two steering methods. The rider or the bike. When bike based steering is used the bikes turn fast sometimes too fast for people. When using rider based steering (which is realistically wrong for a zillion reasons) the bike turns slowly and awkward because your are moving the rider which then turns the bikes. Perfect example is Tourist Trophy. I love that game but to me 3rd person is unplayable because it's rider based steering. But when you switch to 1st person the handling is sublime! and also shows how 1st should be handled in bike games But anyway with the below average graphics and limitied bikes/tracks there really isn't a reason to buy RIMs because while it's not terrible it's not necessarily good either and you get far more bang/fun for the buck with Ride or the MotoGP series. The flagship feature is the "sim" function and it simply falls flat on it's face. Insanely poorly executed and is more tedious than fun. Again I am a bike and yes I like wrenching on my bike. but there is nothing fun about doing an oil change or brake pad change. It's one thing to have the parts wear. that's fine but to have to remove bolts and all that other crap and then put it back on..... is stupid. For a game that is supposedly about the details they miss a lot. For example. Dainese is known for their inside their inside the leg boots. They have that in the game but when selected they are outside the leg. Or for the R1 you select the Racing Line exhaust from Akrapovic but when installed it leaves the cat installed. Because of the lack of content they seem to have employed tricks in the hope no one notices. What tricks? Glad you asked. Using the R1 go to your parts inventory to see what you have available. Pick sections and you'll have a sort list. Compatible A-Z, Z-A or ALL. pretty straight forward right? I'm assuming to try and hide a lack of content the compatible list lists a bunch of stuff that isn't actually compatible with the bike. So while it might initially look like wow I've got 15 different exhaust options for the R1 you only actually have a couple. If they simply only showed the actual parts for the bike the list would look pretty bare. there is a lot of stuff like that going on in the game. The whole game layout seems to have been designed to be as tedious as possible to navigate as to give the impression of depth that simply isn't there. There is just a lot of tedious busy work that really adds nothing to the experience. In Ride you select your bike mod it or whatever and when you use it in any mode (unless some spec race) it is as you set it. But here you do a single race or test and configure the bike, it doesn't carry over to the career. with the way the game is setup it's a pain to go back and setup the bike again. So no I don't see a point to this game. From a straight gameplay perspective it's not even close to Ride or MotoGP and for me those tedious quick time events aren't something that's going to make me switch from Ride or MotoGP to spend time with this. Limited to bikes, tracks and gear..... the game is lacking and sadly not worth the time or money. Glad I didn't buy it, suggested to my friend to wait and he's pissed that he didn't. [/QUOTE]

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