Penguin United Eagle Eye Converter for Xbox 360 Review (Hardware)
I hate hardware that is clunky be design. When you unpack the box the first thing you’ll likely do is put the disc in your drive to install the software. It actually runs right from the disc so it doesn’t even need to be installed. You can drag and drop it all onto the PC if you wish so that you can save all your configurations. The Penguin United Eagle Eye Converter is capable of holding two key configurations at a time. So that means you might have an FPS setup and say a more standard setup for side-scrolling or other games. Generally, you’d usually want the keyboard and mouse when you were playing an FPS anyway.
The first thing I had to overcome was the mouse speed. In several tests it took five full travels of the mouse pad to do a complete 360, with the highest DPI setting and the sensitivity for the X-axis at full in the game on three different mice. So that all had to be configured because the default settings on the Eagle Eye would never pass muster for any hardcore shooter. These settings can be edited while at the PC and several of them including dead zone, X and Y-axis sensitivity and angle adjust able to be done at the console as well. Eagle Eye 360 Features:
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Of course, any time you want to use a keyboard and mouse setup on your Xbox 360 it’s going to get messy. 
| Our Rating for Penguin United Eagle Eye Converter for Xbox 360 Review (Hardware) | |
| 8.0 | Feel This is really more about its aesthetics. It’s well made and sturdy and sort of fits well color-wise with the older cream colored Xbox 360s with the gray hard drives. |
| 8.5 | Usability After some struggles with the setup, which might have been partly as I was rushed, the unit performed up to its promise. As an added bonus, my gameplay stats started going up and that is always a positive. It could be easier to get up and running and the ability to swap buttons while plugged into the console would really be great. |
| 8.5 | Value The unit runs for around $50-60 which puts it below many of its competitors but it also lacks some of their features. Still, all in all it’s a decent deal if you need your KB/mouse on your Xbox 360. |
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8.5
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Overall Some flaws and omissions are outweighed by value and performance lifting the Eagle Eye Converter to a lofty score and a GDN Silver Award. |
