I REALLY like this one. Its more than a hover space craft race thing. Which of course it is. But the added weapon elements, and extras make it quite intense if you really want to go full on. Race, crash into, blow up and destroy etc opponents and aim to win as well. Great! The graphics are pretty good, should get good results even with a low end graphics card.

This game really has the feel of star wars pod racing. You can pick up power-ups that can affect the gameplay of the match. It can get a little frustrating in the begging to drive each vehicle. The graphics are alright and fun to look at. The opponents can be very stupid at times and run into the walls. The game is a good arcade racer with potential to be alot of fun. I would recommend this game to any racer that likes having power-ups to blow the competition away. Its a good game but can be improved.

The controller bindings are terrible.

I was forced to steer, accelerate, and brake, all on the left joystick. Setting up different buttons did not help.

This game would be playable if the controls were updated to work better with the common Xbox controllers.

Graphics were alright, and I would probably leave this installed for a time killer game, but the controls ruined it for me.

Looked like a decent Wipeout clone. :/

woah this game is tough
Its a great game well optimized (can run on the worst rotten potatoes)
and has a real arcedy vibe.
I played very similar games on machines and had fun.
This was no different
you travell at high speeds knocking on your opponents weird ass car
and collect powerups ranging from afterburner time (nitro)
to missiles.
The one major con which can throw people off is the control scheme for keyboards.
Its just not good for the mechanisms.
You can change it but there are too many buttons to press in this ride that its difficult to keep track
so i recommend using a joystick
8/10
for the lowly measly price they charge just buy it without hesitation.

Pod racing without any annoying kids! The awkwardly named A.I.M. racing is a wipeout style racing game where you pilot a hovercraft around a series of race tracks. There are power ups and game modes but it's mostly bland and forgetable

-feels kind of fast sometimes
-I think we all want more wipeout style games on steam
-has multiplayer

-rough round the edges
-unbalanced
-controls are odd and feel bad
-feels mostly slow
-tracks not well designed or interesting

Not recomended unless you need tp play a poor wipeout knock off

I wrote this review with a heavy heart as I consider myself to be among the most fanatic fans of the A.I.M. game series. So this review doesn't come from a random game hopper.
I find this game to be enjoyable... but JUST enjoyable not very enjoyable, and the reason is actually very simple: not because it's not a RPG type-game, like its predecessors, but because sometimes A.I.M.: Racing is literally unplayable. Unstable physics engine and gameplay-wise bad map design isn't exactly the best combo. A good example of this would be the Ocean Station. The track is literally a underwater tube-shaped station, full of dynamic physics objects (DPO), where player will get stuck and start uncontrollably. These DPOs don't affect NPCs as much as they do players. On the same level, besides DPOs, there are also some invisible barriers (which are bad collision meshes on models, actually) that could randomly block a player and at least 10 other NPCs at the same time! This is just one big f*cking mess. I spent 4 hours straight (!) trying to beat the single Ocean Station of the Major League only because of the bad collisions... four effing hours!
There are a couple of madlads who've actually beaten the game on IMPOSSIBLE difficulty, but in my case it's not worth the rage and hassle, especially with technical problems like these. It would be sin to recommend A.I.M.: Racing, though other parts of the game were fine, fun and sincerely enjoyable.

Good god, I was hoping this would be a good, fun racing game, but god was I wrong. This feels like one of those games where you actually have to cheat, or just have the planets align perfectly so luck sides with you to give you at least sixth place.

I'll try to explain myself, here. A.I.M. Racing is a mess all because of two aspects. The controls, and the ship stats. Each ship has individual stats to give a different play style to how you race, or at least I'm sure that was the original intention. What ACTUALLY happened is a completely different story. I've not even beaten the first quick race, let alone competition race, so while I can't vouch for the ships you can unlock, the first three you have access to are all terrible in different ways. The first three ships you gey are basically light, medium, and heavy to easily define them, but sadly it isn't really that simple. Remember how I said the ships have verying stats? Well, the way A.I.M. tries to balance the ships to varied playstyles can be summed up as follows. Make one thing good, one thing complete ♥♥♥♥, and the rest sub-par.

*Light ship - fast, good defense, barely any fire power, and okay handling.
*Medium ship - Slower, less defense, NO fire power, worse handling.
*Heavy ship - Slow as heck, so-so defense, good fire power, might as well have no handling.

What doen't help matters either is the fact that because of how the controls work, and these poor ship stats, when turning corners with any of these ships, with the lightest one only sometimes exempt from this, you have to slow down almost to a complete stop just to turn without hitting the wall, and spinning around like a shot down helicopter, while the computers can speed right through corners without care. you have to slow down to turn corners, but the computers don't, even if you're using the same ship. I even saw a computer using the heaviest ship speed past a corner without stopping, and was a lot faster than it was when I was using it, so it's safe to say this game doesn't play fair in the slightest.


Pretty safe to assume I don't recommend this game, which is sad given this could have been fun given the tracks (Or ratehr, the one track I was able to race on) seems decently functional, even if the boulders you can run into are a bit annoying.

Let's turn an RPG into a racer!

Yep believe it or not. This is what happened. A.I.M Racing is a follow on in the series of 'A.I.M' (not yet ported to steam) and 'A.I.M 2' which can be found here...

http://store.steampowered.com/app/289180/

Both of which I had never heard of before. Basically the story set up in these versions is that mankind was playing around with artificial intelligence and creating mobile war machines called 'gliders' which were in turn controlled by artificial brains in a capsule called 'mechminds'. Each generation produced a more complicated and sophisticated 'mechmind' and the 5th generation was considered to be the most superior. All this testing was done covertly on a planet known as 'Polygon 4'. Eventually because of various milestone events, the future construction of these war machine gliders were abandoned and the location of this planet a forgotten fairy tale. However the assembly line itself and the testing facility was still fully operational and the testing protocols as dictated in its programming was still active. Hence the planet itself was still testing the mechminds to see which was the most advanced in warfare and racing as set up in its programming parameters. Only once that answer had been obtained would the system 'shut down' or enter into a sleep phase.

The mechanics of the game itself will remind you of Star wars Pod Racing mixed with the unfair elements of maybe Mario Kart SNES. You see the ai that you race are developed on purpose to be unfair, with the ability to be able to catch up unrealistically and to be able to overpass you at that single moment in time when you’re about to cross the finishing line in first place. So if you want a relaxing enjoyable experience and time to learn the controlling, I strongly suggest placing it on 'easy' so that you can at least unlock every level without needless constant repeats because of the unfair ai on the other difficulties and absolutely impossible ai to beat on the insane difficulty.

There are 30 gliders and 16 different locations that you will eventually be able to unlock. The most superior glider will only be made available at the very end and already has its speed upgraded to the max. So since you are given a limited amount of upgrade options you may wish to place it on the various facets that the last glider lacks. Why? This is because once an upgrade is chosen, it can’t be undone and applies to all gliders from that point on. So perks such as strength, firepower or handling which the last glider lacks, will seriously help you in being triumphant against the last level which even on 'easy' setting is a trolling experience against unfair ai.

The landscapes themselves are quite versatile from one another and always will inspire you with wonderment as you speed across the various alien projections. The locations will test your ability to drive when confronted with bright light, extremely narrow passages, sharp turns and well timed navigation through or around various obstacles. Each location seems to have a unique test to it, even the open basic track can be very testing as you’re now confronted with the fact that the ai can easily gun you down with rockets and splatter fire. Each location was also made unique by each having its own specific original soundtrack to accompany it adding again to an imaginative universe.

You really can see a fair amount of time was put into this, but there are a number of blaring issues that need to be mentioned to.

* There are quite a few areas where you can simply drive off the map. The game just freezes your glider into a trapped small area but you never respawn back on the map, instead many times you will need to restart.
* Controlling can be really obnoxious on some of the gliders especially if your wing tips hit something or your forced to go into a tube like you do in an underwater level as most gliders can't handle the sudden change of navigation at all and will be flipping all over the place.
* Ai that just sticks with you regardless of whether you go slowly or fast does not make a good racing game.
* There’s not really a lot you can do when the ai in the harder difficulties are hot on your tail. Their splatter harassment and rocket launching will be deadly accurate with practically no warning attached. To evade their pursuit seems fruitless and more an inevitable mechanic of the programming. While other games often add defensive weapons, this game only offers offensive ones.
* There isn't many shortcuts you can take, most of the tracks are just standard routes, offering no versatility in travel routes.
* While multiplayer options are available no servers are maintained by developer or publisher so the game is more a solo experience.
* No achievements.

Regardless of all these gripes, because of its low price and imaginative landscapes I did enjoy the several hours I spent on this game. Granted it’s not a ‘great’ racer, but it is one that at least kept me entertained for a day or two.

Developer: http://www.skyriver.ru/index.phtml

Montage of various levels of the game: https://youtu.be/R0BpuwFqiPA

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This is one racing game which I just Love to play. The AI is good. The mechanics of the game is fun.

I will give this game 10/10

Collision is ♥♥♥♥. AI rubberbands like crazy, and it doesn't go both ways. Things the AI can do with some ships, they cant do to you. AI will not attack each other, but if you are in front of them they will hunt you down.

The concept is fun and interesting, but there are so many problems that I never felt like I was having more fun, then frustration.