Customer Ratings & Reviews

Most of my game play has been on Gran Turisimo 7 on the PS5. I did try to use it with Burnout Paradise City Remaster, but I could not get past the splash screen. That is something to play with in the future, it seems I could not find the correct button combo for the menu needed to start the game. Feedback thru the wheel is appropriate. Some wheels I have used really gave a rumble when giving the feedback. When colliding with another car from the side, the wheel pulls like you would expect with that sort of impact. Hitting a wall is not too violent but you know it happened. Same with rumble strips. Going a couple wheels off the track also give a force turn that is appropriate. The pedals have good resistance. They are adjustable. There are two springs you can use on the brakes to change the tension. The gas has one spring. Each spring is adjustable to different resistance. They are very accurate and properly sensitive. Assemble was pretty easy, but the instructions were lacking. The instructions do not adequately show where to plug the connection from wheel to pedal assemble. The plug in is under the pedal on the inside, accessible from the top side of the assembly. I highly recommend watching a video on how to assemble, if you run into anything you can't figure out. I have a wheel stand I purchased online. It has very standard cutouts and works with most wheels. Unfortunately the holes in the wheel and pedal assembly do not match the standard cutouts in my stand. The good news, the clamps that you would use on your desk, work perfectly with the stand. Unfortunately the pedal assembly does slide on me with the stand. I have rectified this by adding a piece of wood on the base of my stand screwed in that sits at the back of the wheel assembly, basically a speed bump. This keeps the pedal from sliding up when pressing down in tense situations. In the grand scheme of things, I like that I can fold the stand up and disconnect the wheel without needing a screwdriver. You definitely want to have a sturdy setup. This wheel is not light. The pedal assembly is quite heavy also. You will want to have something under the pedals, as they will leave a black mark if they slide around on you. As an example, a card/TV table will not be sturdy enough to use. A desk may sit too high and the keyboard tray my not be sturdy enough. The wheel angle is adjustable, so your desk will probably be a decent height depending on your height etc. As far as game play goes, this definitely enhances the experience with GT7. While the PS5 DualSense controller will allow you to use steering like movements, but having a wheel is so much more gratifying. You will likely two foot the pedals, single foot for both gas and break just does not work for me, especially when you are controlling the car with both mechanisms. GT7 immediately recognized the wheel and set the controls by default. A couple recommendations. The USB cord from PS5 to Wheel is long, but could be longer. It would have been nice to have a 10 foot cable. The power cable is similar in length, but using a power strip I added some length so I did not need to be closer to the screen than I wanted to be. I really love this wheel. The minor drawbacks (hole cut outs), instructions, etc. Are not enough to drop any stars. As I have more time with the wheel, it will be fun to see what other games work well with it. Might be trying some Trackmania next. I have not had a chance to use with the PC yet. I may add a comment to this review after I have time to try it out.

[PROS] Solid Construction: From the base and wheel to the pedals, everything feels great within reasonable expectations. There was a healthy balance of plastic and metal, but all components felt firm and sturdy. Simplistic Interface: The amount of buttons and placement of those buttons are important. As a driver, I find the wheel rim to not be overloaded yet the buttons are very accessible. Overall, it has a clean, pleasing look. Realistic Feedback: Corner turns, uneven terrain, and car wrecks (of course), are all distinctly felt when using the wheel. It was fun experience navigating the tracks in GT7 and Forze Motorsport as well as going off-road with titles like Dirt 5. Furthermore, steering and pedal response was smooth. With racing wheels in general, settings can be tweaked and tailored as desired obviously. However, it is a direct upgrade and improvement to the Thrustmaster T248 (Non DD). [CONS] Early Adoption Woes: Physically setting up the wheel was the easy part. Getting the firmware updated was a pain. Firstly, the directions in the main app are not intuitive as it lacks visual confirmation that the firmware update has initiated. I had to go to the direct support page and download the standalone updater. It eventually initialized the update process, but only after I stepped away from the computer after 5 minutes. [MIXED Bag] Unofficial Support: At the time of review, the Thrustmaster T598 wasn't officially supported by Gran Turismo 7. Although GT7 is playable with the wheel, the game recognizes it as the Thrustmaster T-GT. All other games played fine as well. [CONCLUSION] As an entry-level Direct Drive wheel, the T598 gets you comfortably in the door. It has many tradeoffs compared to other premium Direct Drive wheels, but it performs admirably well for the value its providing.

When it comes to gaming, I'm more of a FPS/Open World type player. While racing games was something I'd enjoy playing, i.e. Gran Turismo, using a normal controller or keyboard just doesn't quite work well. After picking this racing wheel up, I'm about to go nuts with the Steam sale and start buying some more racing games. I used to be a console peasant (PS3/PS4) but I've since graduated to PC gaming. I recently picked up Forza and, man, does it look beautiful on PC. Running 14900k/4090 so everything is crisp and beautiful. Again, going back to controller/keyboard, racing games just don't feel right with that kind of setup. With this racing wheel though? Complete game changer. I'm still trying to find a suitable setup for this wheel. Wondering if I should use the desk clamps or find something else to hook this up to. That said, out of the box, this thing slaps. The force feedback on the wheel is super solid and really adds to the overall racing experience. The pedals I found were a little on the stiff side however, I'm assuming they should loosen up over time. Still though, this is a wonderful enhancement for your racing sims/games. Now I'm deliberating if I should just go all out and get a racing rig and hook everything up to that. But I don't think I have the room for that unfortunately. Still though, Forza is much nicer using this setup so looking forward to finding more racing games I can utilize this wheel with.

Originally got into sim racing on a Logitech G920 wheel. After a year or so wanted to get something a bit better so jumped over to Thrustmaster and got a T300RS. Significantly better wheel IMO over the Logitech G920. Came across an opportunity for a 2nd sim racing rig set up so wanted to get another wheel, specially something DD. I’ve had the T598 hooked up about 8-9 days and man is it a fun wheel to use. The DD is so much better than plastic cogs and or belts driving wheels. I highly recommend this model Thrustmaster especially its price point when compared to something like Fanatec. Still have the T300RS set up but between my two rigs I’ll be driving the T598 as first choice all the time.

Great wheel! I never get bored of it. Great for price too! Feels super realistic especially playing f1.

It’s an ok base but you’ll probably spend more time trying to mount it to something and still be able to see than actually playing. The base is just so big and awkward it’s hard to put it on any rig, I tried it with my solid metal rig and it covered most of my screen. I had to use it with a foldable rig and use a bigger screen even then it still blocked a lot of my screen cause the rim is kinda big too. The base gets pretty hot after a couple hours of use which doesn’t make much sense since the power output of this thing is pretty low. I tried it with GT7 and the feeling was ok, I honestly felt more detail from my old T300 base than this one. Maybe they can improve it with software updates but right now it’s just not worth it imo. It doesn’t even begin to compare with my moza R9 setup but it’s pc only and I needed something for ps5 and this was the only thing I could get next day otherwise I would of gone with something better. The pedals are terrible and have no way to calibrate the travel or dead zone of it so you’re stuck with what you get. Overall ok for the price but not better than other none ps5 options, tho for ps5 I guess it’s ok.

Wheel is great feedback feels strong enough for someone like me who doesn’t play every day. Easy to use with PlayStation. Best of all it’s extremely quite the only noise you hear is coming from the shifting paddles when slamming them.

Great wheel for beginner's getting into the direct drive system. Works great with the pc wish the brake pedals were load cell but you can find something to work with between the two different springs.

Direct drive wheel base and and pedals for ps5 under $500 you just cant beat it! They say its an entry level sim racing setup but so far its way above par in my opinion. The only thing that bugs me a little bit about this wheel base is has a constant hum or almost vibration even just in game menu.

I’ve had this wheel for about of a week now, and I had a bit of issue with this. Sometime the wheel would disconnect mid race and would result in me lossing a race and crashing the car. I do like the build quality of the wheel but the wires aren’t as secure as I would like. I think it’s the reason why my wheel keeps disconnecting. Also sometime even the pedals would disconnect on me, the throttle wouldn’t work but the brake would. Man paying 500 buck plus tax for this wheel feels like a scam to me, I was really excited to use it but I guess not.

Good wheel but it’s probably not worth to buy at $500 compared to MOZA or Fantec, this wheel would be a fair price at $400. Has good force feedback but not for the price.

I bought this bundle as soon as it hit the store. However I haven't been able to update the firmware via My Thrustmaster App. I have wasted so many hours at this point that I'm giving up. I will be returning this item for refund. This is my first Thrustmaster product and it will be my last!

I was excited for this, but after hours of troubleshooting i give up. Not a user friendly experience, and I'm not a newbie when it comes to sim racing gear. I Tried Everything. Trust me. Don't buy this. Dead on arrival. Restarted, updated, changed plugs, uninstall firmware, reinstall. reinstall software. double checked countless times. Changed every setting and the force feedback never worked. Also no matter how many times I tried to set steering lock it never worked, the wheel would freely spin with no resistance. Also when the wheel was sitting still it has a slight rumble to the wheel and the wheelbase makes ambient ringing noise. Waste of my time and money. returning it. Don't buy.

HORRIBLE!!!! The force feedback doesn't work, it starts making weird noises and it's literally trash. The customer service is TRASH they don't even care and can't even answer the phone!!! NEVER buy these