Logitech WingMan Rumble Pad (963233-0403)
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Customer Review: Great Pad with a problematic throttle slider
Summary: 4 Stars
I love these pads. I've been using them for almost two years and have been happy enough with them to not only recommend them to friends, but I give them as gifts to my gaming nephews. The problem is the sliders come off quite easily. While they snap back on just as easy, I have lost at least two while traveling after they came off in my baggage. I wish logitech would offer replacements by the dozen cheapley.Customer Review: Works Well
Summary: 4 Stars
Just thought I'd point out that even though the software isn't for the Mac, it can still be used for it, I use it mostly to play tony hawk 2 and it works really well, the directional pad can be a pain sometimes, but other than that it is fineCustomer Review: A good choice!
Summary: 4 Stars
I am using this gamepad with windows 2000 and FIFA 2001 and I did not noticed the problem that the other guy had with this gamepad. So, I think it is a problem with his Win2000.Customer Review: Good, but Not Great
Summary: 3 Stars
Go to an electronics store and feel this in your hands - it's the best review you could ask for. Unfortunately, as much as I wanted to like this controller, there is a negative for every positive. I mean that quite literally - for every good feature, that feature also has something wrong with it. I noticed all this after only 1 day with it:Layout - the positive is that the Rumblepad is nearly identical to the Playstation's Dualshock controller. There are 7 buttons, 2 triggers, 2 analog sticks, a d-pad, a shift button, and even a throttle slide! For many games, you will not need to use the keyboard when you've got this gamepad. However, the Rumblepad is different enough from the Dualshock that if you are trying to play Playstation games on your PC (Final Fantasy, Metal Gear, bleem!, etc) you will have some relearning to do. You might want to wait until Sony starts making USB Dualshock controllers. (which should be in 6 months)
Feel - this gamepad is nice and big, and doesn't cramp my large (adult male) hands at all. However, the buttons are terrible! They are tiny, hard to press, harder to reach, and even harder to figure out which one you want without looking at the pad. I can't simply rest my thumb naturally on the buttons, but have to bend it akwardly and press the buttons with the very tip of my thumb. This is a design flaw of the pad, not because of my particular build, which is quite average.
Analog Sticks - these are both very responsive, and perfectly positioned. The negative is that they don't have a good gripping surface or shape, so your thumbs don't stay centered on them. Because the sticks are curved inwards, (console sticks on all major systems are curved outwards) I often find I am controlling the stick by its very edge, which is uncomfortable and very inaccurate. As if by the Hand of God, you usually won't need to repositon your thumb until you reach a particular important part of your game!
USB - this speaks for itself. USB is great, if you don't know yet. You can unplug the pad and move it off your desk easily. However, this gamepad requires a -powered- USB hub. You can't plug this into your keyboard USB ports. Great if you already own a powered hub, but if you don't that means you either spend another $ on one, or you plug it into the back of your computer case (thus defeating the ease of USB)
(as of Oct 2000, the Rumblepad doesn't work well with Windows ME. I downloaded the latest update from Logitech, but my computer locks up whenever I plug the gamepad in. I have to have my computer off to plug it in. However, this might be caused by the power requirements of the Rumblepad, not the software.)
Customer Review: This is a PS2 Clone
Summary: 3 Stars
I've had this pad for 2 years and have to say its my favorite. Other controllers I've used like the Interact Hammerhead and Radioshack analog multipad had really poor pots in thier analog sticks and never held calibration for more than a minute. Im now on my second rumble pad (the force feedback motors and the analog sticks broke off on th old one). If you were to take this controller and a PS2 controller apart and compare their analog components, you would see that thier identical, which is good because PS2's have the best analog sticks i've used. The major difference between this controller and a PS2 is the throttle slider on the right top corner of the pad, IHMO the space would have been better used to put 2 extra sholder buttons Left and right. I have yet to find any use for the throttle slider, it seems like more of a gimmick than a usable feature.