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Gravis Eliminator GamePad Pro  (PC/USB Mac)

Gravis Eliminator GamePad Pro (PC/USB Mac)

List Price: $39.99
Your Price: $26.89
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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Perfect Controller
Review: This is a great contoller!!!! It is easy to use.... Buy it. You wont regred it! If you want to play 2 player for sports game, this is the one to get! If you are playing ...[sports games] one player should use the gamepad and the other player uses the keybord. Buy It!!!...

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: great
Review: this is an exellent gamepad and i highly recomend it. the only thing thats on the downside is that if u wana play a baseball game and 2 throw it 2 a base u have 2 press a direction on the d pad but since this d pad is like a joystick its hard 2 get it 2 the right base.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Calling this a "controller" is a dirty lie
Review: This is by far the WORST controller I have ever used. The calibration is terrible, and the little "Precision" button is a joke. While playing Final Fantasy VII (with an emulator), my characters have attacked each other just because of the controller's sporadic nature. The up directional button doesn't work at all--my characters just end up going down instead--and the cursor goes crazy without even touching it. Please do not waste your hard-earned money on this device. You will be terribly disappointed. Today I went out and bought a Logitech Dual Action Gamepad for the same price at Best Buy. We'll see how that goes.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: feels good on hand, but d-pad needs improvement
Review: This is my third gamepad from Gravis. They really make nice gamepads, if only they make them durable enough! I like the way Gravis weigh down the wings... makes holding on to it feel good. The button design and layout has always been well thought of, but problems always starts with the direction pads. After a few months, they start having calibration problems. It progressively gets worse, and after a year, you feel like throwing it away and getting a new one.

Good thing is they are relatively cheap. But I really wish they could improve the direction pads so I don't need to keep buy a new one annually!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: PERFECT!
Review: This is THE gamepad to get. I love it. The interface was easy to use, the buttons are laid out perfectly and the D-Pad is GREAT! Only one flaw, the D-Pad is hard to double tap for fighting games, or any other game, it's hard to go in a perfect line too. But other than that is the best gamepad I have ever used, I even tossed my old Sidewinder.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Good, good.
Review: Well, in my opinion, this is a good gamepad. The problem is for me is that it doesn't have a 15 pin connector, just for USB. I couldn't use it because my 98 is unstable. So that means it is only for 98 and up (they said so, if people say 95, don't believe them). Well, the D pad is like a joystick, moveable in all directions. The buttons and shoulder buttons are labeled in numbers, from 1 to 10. It does look like a PS1 controller, without analog joysticks or whatever you call them. There is a CD for you to configure the buttons, even you can probably try doing specials in games. For my controller (I returned it, no other had a 15 pin connector), I had a bit of trouble with L1 (think of a PS1), I had to push it a bit more harder than the others, probably won't happen for you. This gamepad will do well in SNES emulators (I hope). Just mess around with the thing until you get it right. It is just a bit hard reaching for the shoulder buttons.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Great gamepad, but fragile...
Review: When I saw it in the store, I held it on the display to see if it was good. It felt great, I liked how the buttons were situated. But if you have Windows 2000 or Windows XP, the software you have to use is only available on the Gravis site, and is only in Beta form. But thats not the bad part about it.

I use the pad for no more than a couple days, and it no longer wants to move up or down. I figure its a driver problem, so I uninstall and reinstall the software package. Still no go. Be very careful with the directional pads on this gamepad and any ones with a similar rounded directional pad, as they are very cheaply manufactured and break easily. If I could, I would have returned it, but it was a sale item. It has a three year warranty, but the way I play games with it, I really don't want to have to keep sending the gamepad back every couple weeks to get fixed.

You are better off with the normal Gamepad Pro or Gamepad Pro USB, that looks like a Playstation or PS2 controller, as it has a better directional pad (it isn't the rounded type).


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