

And throughout the career you’ll be able to partake in championships where the reward is a set of keys to another bike. I’ll come back to that later, but I think this is a smart choice because with just eight bikes to focus on, Raceward have done a good job of making them feel distinct on the track. It’s a curated selection of some of the biggest names in the motorcycling world, and while just eight superbikes might seem awfully small, especially compared against Ride 4’s huge roster of two-wheeled machinery, that’s because the developers have opted to go for high levels of detail and dozens of different swappable parts on each bike.

The barebones, linear 70-event career mode is obviously the meat of the game, handing you to the keys to one of RiMS eight lovingly recreated motorcycles: the Ducati Panigale V4 R, MV Agusta F4 RC, Aprilia RSV4, BMW M 1000 RR, Suzuki GSX-R1000R, Honda CBR1000RR, Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10RR and the Yamaha YZF-R1. With its stated goal of being, “The first motorcycling simulation that combines a realistic riding challenge with engineering and mechanics” how does RiMS Racing fare on the track and in the garage? This time its developer Raceward Studio rolling onto the grid and looking to pick up a win with the poorly named RiMS Racing, which sounds awfully close to some unspeakable act. As someone who was raised by a biker and who religiously watches MotoGP, SBK and WSBK, the influx of two-wheeled racing games has been fantastic.
