Dr Gadget - Gadget Shop - Cyborg Evo Force

	List Price: £54.99 Our Price: £35.75 Your Save: £ 0.00 ( % ) Availability: Manufacturer: Saitek
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Batteries Included: 0 Binding: Electronics Brand: Saitek EAN: 0021165103528 Is Autographed: 0 Is Fragile: 0 Is Memorabilia: 0 Label: Saitek Manufacturer: Saitek Manufacturer Minimum Age: 36 Model: PS27 Number Of Items: 1 Platform: Electronic Game Publisher: Saitek Studio: Saitek
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Terrible lack of responsiveness. Comment: I intend to return this product as soon as the shop opens today. Looks great, feels nice, loads of customizable buttons and nice feedback... but it fails in two (what I feel to be) most important requirements - responsiveness and retaining calibration. I tested it with two games, a flight simulation and a space combat simulation. It's great it you intend to sweep across the screen, but if you need pinpoint accuracy, forget this product. On top of this already major flaw, the plane/spacecraft will start to drift left or right if I took my hand off the joystick. Tapping it in the other direction fixes that. Maybe it's just too loose and that's causing both problems. Either way, the problems are there and I had better gameplay from my bottom of the heap, genius joystick that cost 1/3 this one. Customer Rating: Summary: Excellent, HQ Joystick which Glows ;-) Comment: For me it was time for a USB Joystick. Having used my Sidewinder Force Feedback Pro for years, I let it go sadly. The only two reasons I really needed a joystick was 1) My new sound card did not have a game port and 2) Windows Vista does not support game ports anymore. Because of the good experience, I suppose I would have gone for a Sidewinder again, if there were one that it is recent, but since Microsoft is not producing them anymore, I went for the Saitek Evo Force! A lot of the features reminded me of the Sidewinder, but the Force Feedback of this joystick is a lot better and somehow different. The force of the joystick is a lot stronger, vibrating my whole wood desk and possibly waking up my neighbours from the vibrating desk (no complaints so far ;-). Well, that is only if you let it go for a minute and let it vibrate on its own. Don't worry though, this is normal. The intensity of the force feedback can be controlled. This is a great feature, which I have not found from other joysticks. A very nice control panel, which let's you experiment the different force feedback effects, if you don't have all the games to know what the joystick is capable of. Maybe it sounds a little sad, but I had quite a lot of fun just pressing the buttons and feeling the force when I first got the joystick. I guess that's while it was new though. Great software, which let's you customize the features. Good driver support for all OS, including now Vista. This site does not say the joystick is for Vista, but it works great in it. The joystick is best for Flight Simulator, with the throttle and view pan features. The design is very sleek and neat. Very high quality. Support from Saitek is excellent and no premium hotlines. Definitely worth buying. Alternatively if you don't need Force Feedback, go for the wireless version of this joystick. Customer Rating: Summary: Excellent Product Comment: I've previously owned the X45 system by Saitek, and found it to be adequate at best. After a long lay-off from flight sims, I decided it was time to have another bash. Rather than clog up my desk with a seperate throttle/stick solution, I thought I'd go for a force feedback stick this time. Of all the available FF sticks out there at the moment (and there don't seem to be many), this one has the best reviews on the web. In fact it has rave reviews across the board! In practice, I've found it to be well above Saitek's previous build quality from 4 years ago. It looks very nice for a start, and you can feel the quality in the materials used in it's construction. The much trumpeted adjustable features are a good selling point and genuinley useful. I've set it up in a slightly odd way and find it very comfortable. The buttons are numerous and mostly well positioned. The throttle flap is excellent, with a lovely smooth, slightly weighted action. The force feedback function of the stick is excellent too. It can jerk your hand around when it wants, but is capable of very subtle movements. It really does enhance the experience of virtual flight. The action of the stick is precise and smooth (unlike the x45). Saitek have certainly put the effort into designing a stick that allows for completely intuative imput. The twisting rudder action is excellent too. I found the unit functioned flawlessly out of the box, and has needed no additional calibration since setting it up. It works perfectly with my four main sims, (BOB2, Il-2, First Eagles and CFS3) and easily represents the best joystick I've tried over the last 7 years. Customer Rating: Summary: THE DADDY Comment: I have had one of these babies for nearly 2 years now, its never had a calibration issue or got past being 'warm' I found it an excellent heavy duty stick. The Feedback is enough to rattle your fillings and it may throw small children around the room : ) I love the adjustability of the stick, the thumb screw adjusters are better than the old cyborg with an alen key (I know I lost mine!). I love this stick and wouldn't hesitate in buying another should it ever wear out (I reckon that the wold may end first). Customer Rating: Summary: Hot stuff Comment: I found this joystick to be pretty good value for money considering it had full force feedback capability. Worked excellently with a variety of Need For Speed titles, Flight Sim 2004 and Trackmania. My only reasons for it having a four-star rating are the fact that parts of it get particularly hot, even with force feedback off. Have it plugged in for more than an hour and it can warm your hand nicely, any longer than that and you'll know about it. The other problem I had was that the throttle had a tendency to slip to idle, but this is a physical issue, rather than with calibration like so many other people say happen. It also liked to creak due to lack of proper lubrication. After 8 months of ownership of one, mine 'literally' burned out on me after a fairly long stint on NFS Most Wanted. It's now stuck at fully north, with the motors denying any movement south. Hopefully a warning to you to stop after a while and unplug it so it can cool down. In my opinion, it's worth it. More Reviews
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