I’ve owned the Xbox 360 Wireless Controller for Windows device for about a week, and the only thing I am unhappy about is that I waited so long to buy this controller.
Combined with Xpadder, a free program that lets you emulate key presses and mouse movements directly from the controller (google the program), the 360 controller has become a great way to websurf, play games (e.g. Gears of War, Resident Evil 4), and even control media applications such as Cyberlink PowerDVD. If you don’t want to bother programming the Xpadder software yourself, you can download predefined profiles for each of your programs and modify them as you see fit. The range of the controller is sufficient for me, but I have a pretty small apartment I do not know how long the batteries will last and I am considering getting some kind of rechargeable setup. I’ve run this controller on both Windows XP and Windows Vista without any bugs or other problems.
Overall, I rate this product a 4.5/5.0 stars. The only modification I would make to the controller is to disable it’s ‘auto-off’ feature that shuts down the controller automatically after around 10 – 15 minutes of disuse. When you are reading a web page for a long period of time or watching a movie, having to hit the ‘on’ button on the center of the pad before you can use the controller again is a minor annoyance. However, for most people who will use this controller primarily for gaming, this is not a problem at all and is instead a battery preserving feature, thus the deduction of only 0.5 stars.
If you have Vista and play games then you need this controller. Works perfect without the need of installing drivers or gamepad/game configuration. Finally an easy care-free gamepad for Windows! Remember not to install the CD that comes with this controller if you have Vista. I’ve had this controller for over a month now and it works perfectly. Take note that the batteries go fairly quickly.
Rating: 5 / 5
This is a great heavy controller. Didn’t use included software – simply connected it to Vista(32), let it install the software automatically, then turned on the controller and let it install that automatically.
This controller is ridiculously more precise than the Logitech controllers I’ve tried (with the square area for the joysticks). I’m having SO much more fun playing games, especially racing games.
I bought this product from amazon and it’s the same controller that comes with the XBOX 360 with the addition of a wireless transmitter/receiver that plugs into a USB port. But here’s the problem: I can’t get it to work with various games on my PC. It works completely fine with the Orange Box on PC. But when i tried it with Oblivion for PC, the game wouldn’t recognize the control sticks (joysticks), which makes it useless. And as for Call of Duty 4 on PC, it would not recognize my controller at all which really ticked me off. I’m running Windows Vista 32 bit on a top of the line desktop computer i recently built, so it’s not a hardware issue. it’s an issue of the games not recognizing the controller. I even downloaded and installed the most recently updated software for this controller from windows, but no dice. The controller still will not detect on COD4, and the control sticks still do not work with Oblivion. hope this review was helpful for any potential buyers
Rating: 2 / 5
I’ve owned the Xbox 360 Wireless Controller for Windows device for about a week, and the only thing I am unhappy about is that I waited so long to buy this controller.
Combined with Xpadder, a free program that lets you emulate key presses and mouse movements directly from the controller (google the program), the 360 controller has become a great way to websurf, play games (e.g. Gears of War, Resident Evil 4), and even control media applications such as Cyberlink PowerDVD. If you don’t want to bother programming the Xpadder software yourself, you can download predefined profiles for each of your programs and modify them as you see fit. The range of the controller is sufficient for me, but I have a pretty small apartment
I do not know how long the batteries will last and I am considering getting some kind of rechargeable setup. I’ve run this controller on both Windows XP and Windows Vista without any bugs or other problems.
Overall, I rate this product a 4.5/5.0 stars. The only modification I would make to the controller is to disable it’s ‘auto-off’ feature that shuts down the controller automatically after around 10 – 15 minutes of disuse. When you are reading a web page for a long period of time or watching a movie, having to hit the ‘on’ button on the center of the pad before you can use the controller again is a minor annoyance. However, for most people who will use this controller primarily for gaming, this is not a problem at all and is instead a battery preserving feature, thus the deduction of only 0.5 stars.
I highly recommend this product.
Rating: 5 / 5
If you have Vista and play games then you need this controller. Works perfect without the need of installing drivers or gamepad/game configuration. Finally an easy care-free gamepad for Windows! Remember not to install the CD that comes with this controller if you have Vista. I’ve had this controller for over a month now and it works perfectly. Take note that the batteries go fairly quickly.
Rating: 5 / 5
So far I have only used this for emulators, Project64, ZSNES, and JNES. Works great.
Rating: 5 / 5
This is a great heavy controller. Didn’t use included software – simply connected it to Vista(32), let it install the software automatically, then turned on the controller and let it install that automatically.
This controller is ridiculously more precise than the Logitech controllers I’ve tried (with the square area for the joysticks). I’m having SO much more fun playing games, especially racing games.
Rumble feature works for me.
Rating: 5 / 5
I bought this product from amazon and it’s the same controller that comes with the XBOX 360 with the addition of a wireless transmitter/receiver that plugs into a USB port. But here’s the problem: I can’t get it to work with various games on my PC. It works completely fine with the Orange Box on PC. But when i tried it with Oblivion for PC, the game wouldn’t recognize the control sticks (joysticks), which makes it useless. And as for Call of Duty 4 on PC, it would not recognize my controller at all which really ticked me off. I’m running Windows Vista 32 bit on a top of the line desktop computer i recently built, so it’s not a hardware issue. it’s an issue of the games not recognizing the controller. I even downloaded and installed the most recently updated software for this controller from windows, but no dice. The controller still will not detect on COD4, and the control sticks still do not work with Oblivion. hope this review was helpful for any potential buyers
Rating: 2 / 5