You’ll just me more like Ricky Bobby that Jean Girard. No, the Xbox 360 Wireless Speed Wheel is a fun time for a half hour with friends, picking on the wheel user and turning it into a drinking game. Racing fanatics aren’t going to fall in love with the freedom of movement or the ease of storing this remarkably small racing wheel. The Speed Wheel runs on 2 AA batteries and lasts about 20 hours of continuous gameplay, on the low end of what a typical 30 gamepad will last under heavy use. With the racing games I’ve tested (Forza 3, Forza 4, Need for Speed The Run, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit), the wheel sans installation. It isn’t required and it does work immediately after syncing to the Xbox, though for some racing games without the functionality built in the installation is supposed to help. It comes with an installation disc for the 360, something I’ve never seen for any console hardware. Users don’t have to turn the wheel much to turn in game, keeping the Speed Wheel more akin to a traditional racing wheel. The Speed Wheel is accurate and not too sensitive, which keeps it enjoyable. It makes for a great drinking game, no doubt. The most fun I’ve had is in a party setting. Like any peripheral designed to mimic the actual thing that’s wireless, holding a racing wheel in the air and turning it about gets tiresome. That is to say don’t expect to get a better experience playing Forza Motorsport with the Speed Wheel than a controller. The ones where you realize you sold your Wii and Mario Kart, but have Project Gotham Racing and a friend over and want to make the game more exciting. Like a fake drumset or plastic guitar, the Speed Wheel fits the bill for racing games and is fun and somewhat realistic, but it’s mostly for those unique situations. That shouldn’t stop users, of course, because it can be pretty fun, as long as you don’t game too seriously. It’s a wireless racing wheel that you steer in the air almost stupidly, and certainly look dumb doing it.
The Xbox 360 Wireless Speed Wheel fits into the latter group.
We all loved Guitar Hero, but who’s playing it now? There’s nothing wrong with the latter type of hardware, so long as you don’t forget you own it. in these, in order to have an ideally-customized wheel. You can fully customize deadzone and linearity, remap the buttons, etc. Then there are more gimmicky add-ons, the sort that is a ton of fun for a few minutes at a time, and spend more time collecting dust in a closet corner except when friends are over. Such are: Colin McRae Dirt 3, F1 2011 (and F1 2012), Race Driver: Grid, Forza Motorsport 3 and Forza Motorsport 4, the recently released and stunningly-detailed Forza Horizon and others. Some do it over the long run, adding a slight benefit over the typical hardware, or offer a significant improvement in a limited way, like a fightstick or racing wheel. All peripherals are made to enhance the gaming experience.
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