welcome to my unboxing of the Sim Raceway S1 now you might not recognize
the brand Sim Raceway when it comes to gaming peripherals however you'll
probably recognize this one so co-developed with steel Series this is a
racing wheel that uses motion control rather than actually
being like fixed to object like a table
or like a huge chair set up so it uses motion control and the hugest variety of
buttons that I think I've ever seen on a controller to give you a Sim type feel
and Sim type flexibility and customization without being bolted down
literally to a fixed Furniture object
and without taking up a ton of space in your home so motion controlled
customizable Driving Experience steering shift and pedal control all in your
hands let's go ahead and see what else they have to say for themselves quick
rotary dials for driving AIDS realistic racing wheel shifters cool okay
responsive RPM shift indicator lights customizable steering sensitivity
rubberized racing wheel Comfort grips and fully programmable 15 buttons and
d-pad all right so full range throttle and brake controls and a high accuracy
handheld motion controlled steering package Cod develop with steel Series so
it includes Sim Raceway the game however saying it includes Sim Raceway the game
is kind of like saying that it includes oxygen because Sim Raceway is actually
free to play which is pretty cool um
online World focused on live multiplayer racing free to play no subscription fee
simulation grade driving physics laser scan tracks and proprietary skill
matching technology for closer racing across all skill levels that can be a huge problem with racing games if you
have that like super legit player that
just sort of destroys everyone else it's not really fun to race when you're
actually alone on the track and you have no chance of catching up to anyone or
anyone catching up to you that's just boring um oh it also comes with $10 of
ingame currency so yes it's free to play but Micro microtransaction driven so you
can buy like cars and stuff cool okay my
understanding is people who like racing games like you know driving the cool car
in the racing game and you know that sort of thing so I'm not much of a
racing game guy myself so so don't get me wrong although I shouldn't really
call it I shouldn't really call it a game outright because Sim Raceway is not
uh it's more of a Sim than a game so games tend to have more of an arcadey
style of physics where it's not realistic but it might be easier or or
more fun for for novices whereas Sims
tend to be more realistic so it's easier to do things like spin out and crash but
uh if you actually wanted to to practice I mean some Sims even are used by
professional drivers to practice a new a new track that they haven't uh that they
haven't done before uh so if you want a more realistic Driving Experience then
you definitely want to go with something that uses realistic physics and if I
could get this package open I would be some kind of a hero man because this is
unbelievable um oh it should be noted though that just because it's compatible
and comes with Sim Raceway and comes with $10 of in-game money it is actually
compatible with any other PC racing game as well so they list a bunch of them on
the website that it is specifically compatible with but then at the end it
just says also all PC racing games so
that is totally never going back in that packaging that much is very clear uh
what do we got here long periods of repetitive motion using an improperly
set up workspace oh there's your srw currency cool okay it also seems to come
with a small instruction guide that's very eco-friendly you know small
instruction guide so you can tell they didn't cheap out on the instruction guide because it's printed in color but
that they didn't want to you know overdo the
paper we have dispensed with discs to save the planet that's right don't
bother throwing away the CD it doesn't come with one you can just download the
latest off of haha Sim ray.com downloador Cline there you go getting
started guide and blah blah blah ah this that's what we want so this shows what
all of the buttons are for by default and what they actually do this talks a
little bit about the oh the steering whe allows you to fine-tune some Raceway
driving AIDS in order to suit your preferences so to change the value of an
ass assist select using using the assist dial and then turn the assist values
dial to your desired setting low medium high or off to turn all the assists off
select all on the assist style and turn the assist value style to off very very
cool please note that once they've been turned off they can only be turned back on individually so assists driving
assists you got all kinds of different things uh oh that's some pieces of the
uh red packaging okay so spin stab shift
clutch ABS brake traction steer pit invol lock and all lock would probably
be what you'd want to have it on after you've set everything so basically if you go okay I want clutch assists to be
high did you set it all like that very cool so I'm going to turn that off by
default and okay so here's our shifters here's our presumably
throttle and Brake but give me a sec guys all right so I was right which is a
miracle because like I said not really into racing games so this is shift up
shift down this is your break this is your throttle so these are all actually
easy to reach even for someone like me with relatively small hands however once
you're on these I don't know that you'd you know I don't I don't know that you'd
necessarily be able to reach everything so you can see my thumbs can just barely
make it to the paddle and then just
barely make it to some of these however most of this stuff you shouldn't really
have to use in game so let's have a look at what all the buttons are so the
conveniently located buttons that I will realist istically be able to press no I
can't reach that one can't reach that one that I'll realistically be able to
press with my fingers on the paddles shifting and breaking and or look right
and look left so that's yeah okay that's pretty that's pretty basic um the stuff
that I realistically wouldn't be able to reach but most people probably could are
things like speed limiter and request pit it should be noted that things like
speed limiter so this is for when you're in the pits are not necessarily available on our all cars but because
this is a racing accessory it does have
the uh it does accommodate uh some special options that aren't available on
all cars like launch control which gets you off the line if the car supports it
and boost which it boosts your speed if
the car supports it so so things like that so uh if you have larger hands than
me remember guys my hands are super small then you should realistically be
able to reach this probably this uh you should be able to reach boost as well as
lights I just can't quite make it there so what else do we have so we got look
back rear braak balance front brake balance launch control which we covered
HUD which I think is fairly self-explanatory shows you the HUD or
doesn't share the HUD Horn uh this one now this button actually has very cool
functionality what it does is it makes it so that the car will actually lift
off the ground and then it does like a complete rotation and then it will flip
the wheels from the top of the car down to the bottom like from the bottom of the car down to the top of the car like
Transformer style and it will go along the road like no actually just hold H
the horn so that honks the horn um this is for navigating menus so you got like
enter select uh your d-pad as well as your back button so you can actually I
mean that's one of the biggest frustrations with the with most racing wheels uh well the only real racing
wheel that I've really used in the past G25 was that you actually still have to
have a keyboard handy for a lot of games because you can't navigate anything um
bearing in mind I didn't have the uh the shifter plugged in so I think that has
navigation buttons on it but there's a lot of accessories to plug in whereas
this is just one piece that you can like store in your coffee table and not you
know worry about it being in the way all the time right okay uh camera view
changes all of that stuff aha so steering sensitivity you can change it
anywhere from 180 degrees to 360° and then this we have already
covered so let's see what El steel Series has to say for themselves here
like I said guys I am not a racing efficient AO so this is um something I
do need a little bit oh actually no wait come back this is cool so the rubberized
grips here are awesome these are these are like the stickiest rubber grips ever
without feeling like it's sticky you know how sometimes you're just like oh
it feels like um you know Silly Putty uh it's not like that they feel very very
nice very it would be very difficult to accidentally drop this controller the
rest of the unit has like a soft touch feel which is also very nice it has a
braided cord we should have a look at how long the cord is actually that could
be relevant so you're not going to be plugging this in from you know a super
long way away it looks like about a Linus ARM span and a half which for
those of you who work with real measurements is probably about 10
ft okay or 3 m for those of you who use
like real real measurements like not Imperial measurements um so ready set race okay
full range you can okay you can change it you can okay I would definitely
recommend going to steelseries.com and having a look at what they have to say
about it because the unit itself feels very solid without being too heavy and
this gives you some idea of all the customizability that is available here's
a quick list of a bunch of games that support it dirt dirt 2 GTR uh live for
Speed never heard of that Need for Speed I've definitely heard of that one it's very mainstream um used by the pros
interesting tested and improved by professional racing drivers including
Dario Fran
chitty wow that's kind of cool I mean it's one thing when there's
like a mouse that's like approved by Pro Gamers but when you have like a we
that's approved by pro drivers who like actually have to like risk their lives
to do what they're doing and they say it's okay then that's uh sort of
meaningful actually prefer a neutral setup okay you can compromise between
this and this so I think the point of all of this is
the convenience factor so not having the
bulky setup the customizability
factor yeah it's kind of neat I mean it's a lot better than holding like a
Wii remote so the PC is still light years ahead of
consoles in terms of that the one drawback from my mind is lack of forc
feedback so personally I like I have a hard time with racing games already if I
don't have forc feedback I have a much harder time with racing games however if
you just want yeah if you just want the convenience factor if you don't care
about the force feedback and you want something that you can just kind of pack
up and take with you somewhere very conveniently then this might be the way
to go so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the s from
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