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Gravis Xterminator Digital Game Pad (PC/USB Mac)
Manufacturer: Gravis ProductGroup: CE Binding: Electronics  Gamepads
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Product Description
The most powerful game controller on the planet! Gravis Xterminator is Kensington's affordable 'all-in-one' digital, programmable game controller that gives you unparalleled precision and control at your fingertips. It includes an enhanced 8-way digital directional pad, which puts you in complete control for high-speed action and digital control for accuracy and programmability, and an 8-way point-of-view switch which changes your weapon or perspective. Xterminator looks and functions like a game pad, but also comes with the additional functionality of a joystick.The Gravis Xterminator Gamepad has 11 conveniently placed buttons: 2 digital triggers, 1 hot set switch button, 6 primary, strategic buttons, and your start and select buttons launching you right into game play, and providing you with all the firepower you need, and more. It is IBM, Windows 95/98 compatible, features a comfortable design and connects to a 15-pin game port.Customer Reviews:
Excellent!! No doubt the best PC gamepad ever manufacturered.......2004-05-22
The reviewer directly below this review incorrectly states that the gamepad can only do 4-way directional instead of 8-way. When in fact it does both. The software for this gamepad allows you to configure both the d-pad and the analog stick to work as an 8-way or 4-way.
If anyone from Gravis is reading this, please hear me out!!
Amazing Control Pad, but..........2003-03-03
Good hardware, crap software.......2001-10-01
It's a shame, then, that Gravis can't support it with usable software. The software is plain bad: It has a skin that doesn't fit within a 640x480 resolution screen, so if you happen to want to use it on a kiddy computer, you're out of luck. The skin is a memory hog. The control program itself runs sporadically; sometimes it will support your programmed commands within a game and sometimes it won't. The installation instructions are useless and it is a trial-and-error process to get the software to work at all. Plus, Gravis is terrible about providing updates. The original software was incompatable with DirectX 7 and it was months before a fix was available. The latest software seems to work with DirectX 8, but is still a memory hog. I've given up on Gravis and am currently looking for another gamepad.
By far the BEST game pad out.......2001-03-28
The updated Gravis Xperience software is outstanding, it loads very fast and it allows you to create gamesets on your game pad(s) to any game that you have on your computer. It even has a fairly large list of gamesets already made for you. There is also a window in the user interface that displays the picture of all gravis controllers that you have on your computer. And there is a also a larger diagram of your controller that lists every button you can program. For example on mine I have my two game pad pros (one black and one white), Xterminator Dual Shock, and of course the Xterminator Digital Game pad. And guess what? the interface actually shows the two game pad pros in their right colors!! This may seem like a minute detail, but trust me its real refreshing that there are still companies out that pay attention to every detail and try their hardest to release software with a little bugs as possible. Programming a gameset to your gamepad is as simple as point and click, everything is very detailed and it is almost impossible to not know what you are doing. Just click on the picture of the game pad you want to program, then click on each button to program a keyboard key to it. Of course you still can use the game pad as a joystick, but I perfer setting it up the way I want it set up and im sure you would agree.
The only bad things I can say I experiences with this pad are:
1) the Xperience software that comes in the box is out of date and it is VERY difficult to get it to work in all of your games. However, gravis does have the most current version on their website which is available for free download. The newer version is much better and I haven't had any problems since downloading it.
2) This is my third replacement pad because the first two seemed to develop shorts in the wires which causes Windows not to be able to recognize the controller correctly. I haven't had any problems since then so I guess I must have gotten a couple of defective ones.
conclusion: gravis in my opinion make the best controllers out there by far. No-one even comes close in the ease of use, the power it gives you and compatibility with virtually all of your games. Their software is awesome!! It was very user friendly and was developed very well. Other game pad manufactuers should take a hint from Gravis and release quality products for a change. My other 3 game pads are also Gravis and as long as Gravis continues to make excellent products, I will continue to buy from them and only them.
The Best I've used.......2000-12-03
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