Honestly I prefer the playstation 3 controller with the pressure sensitive buttons but to be fair the pc gaming side of it which is most likely what your buying this for it works fine in games with proper controller support in games like The Crew, Race Driver Grid which is what i bought mine for.
Did not expect to plug in and 10 seconds later on my old windows 7 x64 bit pc with steam running to just work fine. Like I pressed the big X button and steams big picture loaded up. This is with plugging it into the usb port and just sitting down it was all installed and done, I didn't actually have to do anything. Then again that is what you kind of expect even with some old pc gamepads like i had but i thought this being a Microsoft product it would need a load of faffing around and driver which is usually the case but no its fine.
There is drivers on the microsoft homepage but if you use windows 7 x64 like me there is no point all it does is show up a logo on your screen when your not in steam. :S There is literally no point. I disabled it in startup with msconfig so now when i press it, it doesn't do that. (Microsoft stuff right? :D)
Honestly the shape of it i dont really like either the reason I bought this is because my old pad has gotten old and worn out one of the buttons doesnt work as it should and some games dont like it. Games seem to have better support for this one, i noticed assetto corsa also likes this controller and not my old one which had I had to have a weird layout involving no clutch or handbrake for drifting (all about Power, decelleration, weight transition). I think this one should be fine considering the sticks are on an axis but the game likes the clutch to be on an axis and handbrake you have to find in the awkward place of Advanced unless you have a weird layout. The support is good for this controller so far. Even CS GO shows up in steams big picture with controller support. I may try that later for a laugh in casual mode.
As a microsoft product and xbox h8r as people would call it, This pad is fine it does what you expect. Feels sturdy although mine is squeaky (probably just needs wearing in). Doesn't feel particularly amazing its just meh it will do.
Its black so it doesn't stand out on the desk like a sore thumb. I really don't like the white ones they look like cheap bling.
I 4 Star this because there was no messing around its just plug in and sit down. So far games that support it haven't need setting up or anything just run game and it works. I just change the layout to the GranTurismo style because that is my preferred way of playing. Racing games use the triggers and I find it weird.
Only reason I didn't give it 5stars is its not exactly mind blowingly good either. It just works.
I would of 5 star this IF shape wasn't weird to me (Im a playstation 3 controller fanboy), the ABXY buttons was see through and had leds lighting them (yes i know sounds childish but the buttons look like a cheap rip off, of nintendos snes controller), The silver X button wasn't ugly with the horrible green led. (Im sorry but ew take the x way and make the led white or something). Analogue sticks feel like they bulge out the controller. (Its when im using them they feel like a bit like they stand out a little too much from the rest of the controller).
I recommend, less headaches with games that have support. Although there maybe some special cases like with some unity games or something that don't actually support it properly. eg Drift Streets Japan.
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