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Great quality, not comfortable

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I think that in terms of quality this Microsoft Controller is definetely the best, but is it the best in terms of comfortability? The answer is defintely not. I even found that when i picked up the new "Alien infestation controller (limited)" which has bumps that were meant to be on it all over the controller, it was still more comfortable then that of Microsofts jet black smooth controller. Why might that be? The answer is because of the massive size of this controller versus the smaller more compact size of Mad Catz contoller and even the Alien Infistation controller. For adults, this contoller might be find, but for kids/little kids, they will definetely hate it and demand for a smaller one. That is basically what i did and i have to say that i was much more satisfied with the smaller one. The only good thing about this controller though is the amazing quality, i still have one of these from November 11th 2001, the day Xbox first came out and the controller is still working perfectly well. Another good thing about it is that the cable cord is very long so if you have your Xbox elevated it can still reach perfectly well, you can even sit far away from your console, even if it is elevated and the cord will reach fine.

So basically there are thirteen buttons/triggers/analog sticks (all together) on the Xbox controller. You have the L and R triggers on the back, the L trigger on the left and the R trigger on the right. You have one analog stick on the upper left hand side of the controller and another analog stick on the bottom right hand side of the controller. The fairly comfortable D Pad is on the lower left hand side of the controller and the "start" and "back" buttons are on the very bottom of the controller. The back button is usually used to view stats, pause game or is not used at all, i really didn't see the need in this button. Moving on you have the x button on the upper right, you have the y button n the upper right as well, as well as the b and a button. you then have the white button and the black button which are placed just a little above the four core buttons. There is also a rather large "Xbox" logo smacked right in the upper/middle part of the controller.

You then have two slots on the back/bottom of the controller which is used for placing a memory card/xbox communicator chip into.

The other bad thing about this controller is that seeing it is black, your hand tends to get extremely sweaty after using it as well as the Mad Catz controller. It can be kind of gross when you want to receive a controller that your friend has just used or you want to swap controllers and its dripping in sweat, this cannot be very pleasing at times, they should have made the color white or something, it DOESN'T have to match the color of the core console.

In conclusion, i do not think that this controller is worth its money when you can just get a smaller/cheaper/more practicle controller made by madcatz.

Stopped working

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I purchased this controller and was immediately dissapointed. It was large and clunky (this is from a dude with large hands). The triggers are tooo sensitive, and not ideal for games which require a bit of tension with the springs. (See ESPN NBA BASKETBALL). I like the fact that the black and white buttons are shoulder buttons. But more than anything else I wouldnt suggest it because within a few weeks the controller started to freak out and then i suddenly died out on me.

Pros
Black and white shoulder buttons
Price

Cons
Big and clunky
It feels cheap
Sensitive L+R Triggers
Stopped working

it is horrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

i have owned this controller for not even a week and it already broke. On halo2 to look down it takes so long.... i seriously recommend you to not buy it and invest your money in a microsoft brand controller. DON'T BUY!!!!!

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