Personally, I never felt comfortable with it. The mouse always felt sluggish even after a driver update and cranking up the sensitivity in the game as well as on the unit itself (the mouse has an F button you hold and spin the mouse wheel to adjust sensitivity). Speaking of a driver update. In order to do things like map the buttons, you have to install a driver package on your Windows-based computer and then get the Xscorch Configuration software (all available from Bannco).

There are some cool features. For example if you’ve got a game on the Xbox 360 where the developer didn’t offer you a way to configure the gamepad (which some still forget to give us) you can go into the configuration software on the PC and map the controls to where you want them on the controllers. Truly a handy feature right there. You can also, for PC usage, map keys from the keyboard to the controls in the software.

The mouse speed was excellent on the PC but as I said it always felt sluggish on the Xbox 360, even when it was all turned up as high as it could go. There’s no sort of mouse speed indicator, either on the unit itself, on-screen or in the configuration software which would have been really helpful. There is also no documentation on what increments the mouse wheel adjusts the speed at but their website states that there are four speed settings.

There were also some problems getting the driver installed on my Windows 7 machine. The company representatives were more than happy to assist me in this and sent along plenty of information to get me going. A lot of that information is available on their website as well.