So, given that recent racing game releases are all about cars I appreciated finding a racing game with little drones instead, I'm a big fan of A.I.M. Racing so I was thrilled to play this. Downloaded from Google Drive with no issues, downloading all three parts at once, and installation's as easy as just extracting the .rar files and running LAUNCHER.exe to run the game (Make sure you do this as otherwise it won't work, at least it gave me an error when I tried to do otherwise). Verdict, though? This game is not worth the download, at least not for now. The entire game is currently composed of a single area (desert) with around 4 or 5 slightly altered versions of the exact same track and a "free roam" mode that's literally just you with the entire track unlocked to fly wherever you want. The "head-banging soundtrack" is just 3 songs that don't loop properly so you may as well be listening to something on itunes while you play and the drones' designs are, in my opinion, something a kid drew and then the devs decided to make a 3D model of, though I guess any car enthusiast from the 90s would at least appreciate the effort. "Various Race modes" currently only means you have a, X-amout of lap circuit race and a knockout race where whoever's in last is kicked from the race, and I don't know if it was just that I wasn't playing on maximum settings or what but it seems that there's a "goal" line in circuit mode which only counts you as having completed the lap if you're below a certain altitude when you cross it, if you're too high up the game won't update your laps and suddenly you go from first to dead last with no hopes of catching up. As far as I saw there's also no goal indicator so you need to memorize where the start/finish line is just from the preparation before the race starts so you know when to drop your altitude, and you don't want to drop it too soon as there's cacti and other stuff on the ground which can somehow stop your bulky-looking drone flying 200+ MPH on a dime, and given this is a "physics-based racer" their actual handling is rather crap. Realistic, but crap. So yeah, I'd advice anyone looking into getting this game to hold off for now and keep an eye out on the game's development, it IS an early access game and most features have yet to be implemented, maybe it'll be worth getting in the future. Oh, and no you don't require any VR equipment to play. You can use them and the game works "okay" with the game as it is but you can just as well play without it.
Verdict, though? This game is not worth the download, at least not for now. The entire game is currently composed of a single area (desert) with around 4 or 5 slightly altered versions of the exact same track and a "free roam" mode that's literally just you with the entire track unlocked to fly wherever you want. The "head-banging soundtrack" is just 3 songs that don't loop properly so you may as well be listening to something on itunes while you play and the drones' designs are, in my opinion, something a kid drew and then the devs decided to make a 3D model of, though I guess any car enthusiast from the 90s would at least appreciate the effort.
"Various Race modes" currently only means you have a, X-amout of lap circuit race and a knockout race where whoever's in last is kicked from the race, and I don't know if it was just that I wasn't playing on maximum settings or what but it seems that there's a "goal" line in circuit mode which only counts you as having completed the lap if you're below a certain altitude when you cross it, if you're too high up the game won't update your laps and suddenly you go from first to dead last with no hopes of catching up. As far as I saw there's also no goal indicator so you need to memorize where the start/finish line is just from the preparation before the race starts so you know when to drop your altitude, and you don't want to drop it too soon as there's cacti and other stuff on the ground which can somehow stop your bulky-looking drone flying 200+ MPH on a dime, and given this is a "physics-based racer" their actual handling is rather crap. Realistic, but crap.
So yeah, I'd advice anyone looking into getting this game to hold off for now and keep an eye out on the game's development, it IS an early access game and most features have yet to be implemented, maybe it'll be worth getting in the future.
Oh, and no you don't require any VR equipment to play. You can use them and the game works "okay" with the game as it is but you can just as well play without it.
VR support (completely optional) – both HTC Vive and Oculus Rift have been tested to work perfectly.