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Product:
Microsoft Sidewinder Game Pad Pro
Company: Microsoft
Website: http://www.microsoft.com/hardware
Estimated Street Price: $39.95
Review By: Byron Hinson
Final Results and
Overall Mark
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Well we have reached the end of the
review. Here are my final comments, notes and grades for Microsoft's
Sidewinder Game Pad Pro controller.
Final Comments
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How It Grades
Installation: 91%
Manual: N/A
Performance: 90%
Drivers: 90%
Look: 85%
Feel: 78%
Help Files: 90%
Price: 88%
Overall: 80%
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The Game Pad Pro is overall
a good purchase, but I'm not sure that it really offers enough over other
game pads on the market to warrant buying if you already have a game pad
that you use without any problems at the moment. I guess it is good in
some ways to see that companies are moving over to USB products, but
surely an option to use a plain old game controller port wouldn't go
amiss. So in conclusion, if you don't have a game pad controller or you
are currently on the look out for a new one then you can't really go
wrong, but if your current one is still working fine, you don't need to
rush out to purchase a SideWinder Game Pad Pro.
| Overall
Score |
80% |
| Version
Reviewed |
SideWinder
Game Pad Pro Revision 1.1
Sidewinder Gaming Control Software 4.0 |
| Release
Date |
Out
Now |
| In
The Box? |
1
USB Game Pad Pro Controller
Press Release |
| The
Good Points |
Easy
To Install
Looks Good
Lots Of Buttons
D-Pad Improved |
| The
Bad Points |
Plastic
Feels Flimsy
USB Only |
| Reviewers
PC Setup |
Pentium
II 450
Windows 98 Second Edition
128 Meg SD-Ram
Voodoo 2 - 8mb
DirectX 7 Gold
SoundBlaster Live! Value
17" LG Electronics Monitor
Matrox G400 32MB AGP Graphics Card
Microsoft Force Feedback Pro
Microsoft Game Pad Pro (USB)
Microsoft Digital Sound System 80
DVD Setup: Toshiba SD-1202
DVD-ROM - 32x
DVD TV Player - Samsung 807
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| PC
Required |
Windows
98
Intel Pentium PC (or 100% compatible CPU)
USB Controller |
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