Thursday, September 9, 2010

Review of the Afterglow Xbox360 wired Controller

So I was at Bestbuy looking for a video game which I will probably do a review on next time. I found this controller and it looks cool. It was the Afterglow Xbox360 wired controller. What stood out to me was that it is clear and it has blue led lights in so you can play in the dark. So I checked at how much it was and it was a good price. So I picked it up and here is a review of the pros and cons of the controller.
Ok the first thing you will probably notice about the Afterglow controller is that its the same as all the other xbox360 controller, all the buttons are the same everything. The toggles, d-pad, and the triggers are black instead of the xbox360 gray color. The only real difference about the controller is the blue led part. The Afterglow controller has about 6 blue led in the front, none on the back though since you don't look in the back. On the back of the controller there is a 3 switch switch. Each setting is different. The first setting is "on" which will turn on the led and keep them on all the time until you turn off the xbox. The second switch is "off" which then you will  have just a clear see through controller. The last switch is a rumble led feature which is neat but really not used. If you are playing a game with rumble feature, the led lights will turn on when it rumbles and turns off when no rumble. Even with those features the best is the price you can get the controller at. They run retail for $30, which is a good price consider the Microsoft controllers run for $40 wired. There is only one con for this controller. It is that the toggles are stiff when you press down on them. Like if you were going to knife someone in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, and you press down on the toggle it might not work. Overall this product is a great one for the price and if you are interesting in just buying another controller for your own purpose or to use with friends. I would give this a 10 for price, a 8 for user friendly just because of the hard toggles. So overall a 9 out of 10.

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