Team Xtender's XFPS reviewed

You're fairly aware by now of how Team Xtender's XFPS was all set to shake up the FPS realm on the Xbox 360 by giving gamers the ability to use the undisputed king of controls (that'd be the keyboard / mouse tandem) -- or Sony's widely adored Dual Shock controller -- instead of Microsoft's own rendition, but according to Xbox360Fanboy's review, it's not quite the post-Christmas miracle we were all hoping for. While expectations were admittedly set rather high, it seems the unit simply underperforms where it mattered most, and excelled in a somewhat less important department. Using Gears of War, Halo 2, and Rainbow Six 3: Vegas Demo as tests, reviewers found the keyboard / mouse setup to be a breeze, but actual in-game results were not only poor, but relatively unacceptable. If the "slight button delays" weren't enough to turn your nose up, the simply inability for a keyboard to emulate the "analog support of the Xbox 360 controller" made critical run / crouch movements next to impossible to pull off, and the mouse aiming was purportedly dreadful as well. It was stated, however, that it worked perfectly with a Dual Shock (PS1 or PS2 flavor) controller, so folks digging the Sony design but unable to locate (or afford) a PS3 should take note. Overall, the XFPS reportedly fails fairly miserably at giving Xbox 360 owners the chance to use their keyboard / mouse combo to shoot it up on a console, and just seems relatively expensive for a simple Dual Shock-to-Xbox 360 liaison, so unless you just have to learn things the hard way, we'd suggest holding off.

[Vences5 @ Dec 31st 2006 12:12AM]

And I was about to buy that a few minutes ago....

[youdiejoe @ Dec 31st 2006 12:38AM]

Well...If you read the comments on the orignal review, I posted there with my view of the XFPS Which is mainly positive, post #8.

The biggest problem with reviews of reviews... digg rerefs... a negative review gets a ton of hits with no counter point. Just to be blunt it seems that the reviewers didn't full review the unit, with quotes like "There's always the chance that it might work better with a different mouse, but we doubt it." You can't full review a product in one pass with only one setup in a PC world when you have a zillion different mice and keyboards.

So don't take this review at face value.

[SRD @ Dec 31st 2006 12:40AM]

I honestly dont know whats wrong with the reviewer. I have one and it works awsome with gears of war. not as good as a pc but its much better than the controller. as one of the comments under the review stated you have to own a wireless controller as well to set it up. the reviewer didnt follow the directions. the unit works great go get one. I read the comment under the review the user is totally correct.

[Revrant2394 @ Dec 31st 2006 4:14AM]

This isn't entirely surprising.

Oh Golly Em Gee, can I really downgrade to the less comfortable Dual Shock for Christmas mommy? Can I?

[xVariable @ Dec 31st 2006 11:54AM]

Wait. So the reviewers were incompetent? That's slander.

The individuals responsible for that review should be shown the door. Consumers like me rely on objective reviews to help us decide whether or not to buy products. It's defamatory not to properly review a product.

[Das @ Dec 31st 2006 11:42AM]

Why on earth would you want to use the dual shock over the Xbox 360 controller? The 360 controller is just so much more comfortable.

Mouse+Keyboard gaming or bust!

[strider_mt2k @ Dec 31st 2006 12:05PM]

Wow.
This product has brought out alot of passionate feelings in folks, from my own disgust with console controllers in the first place to folks complaining about some vague notion of "fairness" when playing on a console.

Now heads are being called for, oh my!

[rualanthony @ Jan 1st 2007 1:22AM]

i know this is off the topic but i wanted some views. My 360 just got the 3 flashing red lights and i was wondering was it because i had too much hooked up to it. I have my 360 in a pelican fan stand. my hd-dvd player is hooked up to the 360 via usb,my wireless adpator snaped on the back of the hd-dvd,the fan stand plugged into the second slot of the hd-dvd. Since the fan stand usb is double-sided, i also have my live camera plugged into the fan stand usb. Do you think this might have cause the 360 to die because it was draining too much power?

[Peter @ Jan 1st 2007 9:03AM]

I would love to have a 360. I refuse to play on one though unless i can use a mouse.

Best of both worlds would be the left hand nintendo nunchuck thing for pressure sensitive control for running, strafing, leaning and mouse in my right hand for aming and firing etc.

[Peter @ Jan 1st 2007 9:04AM]

This site could do with a profile option to change to a more memory friendly password . . er or is there one already that i haven't seen?

[Kevan R (SLC) @ Jan 1st 2007 12:16PM]

Um, did Rainbow Six: Vegas change? Since when did they add a '3' to the name? :-)

[Vorlonesque @ Jan 13th 2007 10:34PM]

I will probably buy one so I can use my X-Arcade joystick (with a PSX adapter) on the 360 since they haven't been able to make a 360 adapter yet and I'm not a fan of the Japanese style ball and flat button sticks for most things.