Review: Madcatz Officially licensed Wireless Force Feedback Wheel

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http://www.madcatz.com/wheel

Oh god..where do I start?

Its terrible. No..wait, let me repeat that for you, ITS TERRIBLE.

As a avid sim racer spanning the 3 great platforms, that owns an armada of various wheels from budget to the elite. I would rate this wheel as appalling.

Wheel itself:
Feels cheap, small and quintessentially Madcatz-which is a bad thing. MS wheel feels much better.

FFB:
Annoying, theres a stupid vibration going on at ALL times, in the straights, its gets soo distracting, to the point that you have to fight it, or risk slamming into a wall.

Shifters:
Terrible, no life to it at all, no positive click, just a mushy, no force required sequential shifter. Same could be said for the paddles.

Pedals:
Oh god..mushy little bits of plastic stuck onto a pipe. Cheap, yucky, nasty, beware.

Value:
Complete ripoff, 250 USD? lol, should be priced at around 50 USD for how utterly useless it is.

Competitors:
A second hand PWTS or MS Wireless still reign king in the budget/amateur wheel category.
 
So you got one already?

I'm still on a waiting list as it seems it's near impossible to get one of these.

Could you post some photos of the wheel and the box?I would like to see some better photos and what i would expect the box to look like.
 
somebodysb2
Value:
Complete ripoff, 250 USD? lol, should be priced at around 50 USD for how utterly useless it is.
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Wow! I had a feeling it wasn't going to be very good but I didn't think it would be that bad. I feel sorry for all the people that are going to buy it hoping for the best.
 
zr1chris
Wow! I had a feeling it wasn't going to be very good but I didn't think it would be that bad. I feel sorry for all the people that are going to buy it hoping for the best.
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I would wait for more reviews for this wheel before we say it's terrible.

I just posted a video in the Wheel thread and the guy who made the video seemed to be pretty pleased with it.
 
StarFirebird
I would wait for more reviews for this wheel before we say it's terrible.

I just posted a video in the Wheel thread and the guy who made the video seemed to be pretty pleased with it.
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He also never owned a wheel before. I used to think the MS wheel was fantastic before I tried higher quality wheels.
 
zr1chris
He also never owned a wheel before. I used to think the MS wheel was fantastic before I tried higher quality wheels.
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I was in the same boat as he when i got my Driving Force GT and i love that wheel.

One thing i paid attention to in that video was the force feedback and how he responded to it.It seemed to be pretty decent by watching his reactions.You could hear the motor as well.It more than likely has a single motor in it.
 
This sounds more like blasting the Madcatz wheel than a review. I'll simply take it as a "Buy at your on displeasure" warning, not that I am looking to get one. I did hope that the wheel would at least be better than the WRW, but judging from this lambasting it isn't. Oh well...
 

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