THE APEX

The APEX may not be the sturdiest racing wheel in the market but build quality is reasonably good and in terms of design it has very little to be jealous of far more expensive and advanced models (the Playstation logo is placed right at the center).

Much like with most racing wheels the front end resembles the front of a car.

A small modular port is placed at the front and here is where you connect the pedals.

Two buttons are placed on the rubberized textured areas of the wheel and these are perhaps the best ones since they are easier to access even compared to the paddle shifters.

A small 4-way directional pad (D-Pad) is placed on the left side of the wheel while on the right Hori has placed the usual console buttons.

Four extra programmable buttons are placed at the center of the wheel right beneath four buttons and two LEDs used to configure the various wheel features (for example you can turn on the quick handling mode by pressing the R2 button while holding the Assign button).

From the left switch placed at the top center you can toggle between Playstation 4 Normal mode, Playstation 4 Steering mode and Playstation 3 compatibility (some games work better with different modes so be sure to check them out). From the left switch you can also configure the D-Pad to left stick or right stick control.

The paddle shifters are made out of plastic and aren't that sturdy but they work as they should (they even make a click noise when used).

At the base of the wheel we find 6 rubber feet and 5 mounting spots for the 5 suction cups.

The 3 meter long cable ends on a regular (not gold-plated) USB plug.

The pedals unit is very simple and made out of hard plastic.

Unfortunately the size of the pedals is not the best but we've seen way worse.

You can adjust the sensitivity of the pedals via the D-Pad and Assign button (press and hold the Assign button for 3 seconds, the hold the pedal you want to adjust for another 3 seconds and adjust the sensitivity with the up/down button of the D-Pad).

At the base of the pedals we see 4 textured rubber feet and the retractable foot rest.

By placing your feet on the foot rest you increase the stability of the pedals (which is not that great to begin with).

Worth pointing out is that in both games we initially (we also used Dirt 4 down the road) used the APEX Racing Wheel with (F1 2016 and Asseto Corsa) it was detected and didn't come across any issues (we just had to assign controls manually since for example Asseto Corsa doesn't officially support it like it does several Fanatec and Logitech wheels).