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Review on Microsoft Xbox 360 Controller for Windows Bundle by Micha Jelonek ᠌

Revainrating 5 out of 5

The quality is at the highest level, be sure to try it.

There is something to compare with, I have an Oklick beggar device, and RumblePad 2, which has served faithfully for more than one year, I have tried both Sonev's pads and Trustmaster's lop-eared ones. Better than a subject simply did not meet. It is touching when they begin to list and discuss the functional bells and whistles of gamepads, forgetting that ergonomics are at the forefront, which the Xbox controller has the best. Only citizens with huge hands can argue with this, they can really be uncomfortable, the gamepad is quite miniature. If the first of the shortcomings I have listed is a matter of taste, then the remaining two are just a disaster. From any other controller I would take off a couple of stars in the rating for this, but here objectivity and common sense give in to emotions from the game) In fact, it becomes almost impossible to drive perfectly evenly in a car simulator, a thrown stick still turns the vehicle off the track by a couple of degrees. This time. And secondly, the triggers pressed at the same time return 0, "nothing is pressed", not everywhere, of course, but for some games (NHL, for example) you will have to relearn. Or put the left firewood XBCD before each launch of a certain game and roll it back before launching the rest, because with such firewood problems begin already in other games. The cries of comrades about fragrant wires are very surprising and suggest that high-tech equipment should be bought in large serious online stores, and not somewhere cheaper, and the quality will pleasantly surprise you. As a summary: if your fetish is not fighting games, then there is simply no better gamepad. Although, due to the lack of flexible settings for sticks, triggers and axes, small soft ones should burn in hell =)

Pros
  • The ergonomics are absolutely fine; Excellent build quality: no squeaks, no squeaks, no backlash; Windows determines immediately and without question; The vast majority of games recognize the gamepad correctly; Low (yes, no doubt) price for a product of this quality
Cons
  • 1. Useless, in my humble opinion, the central button; 2. Fuzzy centering of the sticks, the real middle (zero position along the axes) simply cannot be caught; 3. Triggers are defined as one axis.