so, here i am coming into the house after school and i see this huge box on the table, i waste no time in thinking it is my new refurbished wheel which i have been waiting exactly 1 week for! fortunately, it was. so i didnt look like a prat. even though it wasnt in the original box, it had all the bits and pieces so it was ok.
I took it to the attic where i have my ps3 and plugged everything in, here is where i started doubting if it would work, it was refurbished after all, and came in a battered box. but, whats the point of getting scared now? i fired up the ps3. waah! its moving! who's doing that?! who's touching it?! its my wheel! oh, get lost tooth fairies!
so, after that little, um, predicament i loaded gt5 prologue and saw it calibrate again and after the calibration i heard a bang, i thought it was broken but i quickly put on a time trial on eiger nordwand.
thats when i found out, i am crap with the wheel, the force feedback was too strong, but i didnt want to set it down! whats the fun in turning it down? but i did, i was still crap. what i'm saying here even with a half-setting of 5 the thing is still strong enough to rip your arms off. thats a good thing! i think...
but i did find that the amount of force it takes to turn it, i must have been playing for about 2 hours now and my muscles have already thickened another inch. its so hard to turn it, so that means you cant do slight corrections while turning unless, you are falling from a cliff and the steering goes very light, which this wheel manages very well. also, when i come to the first turn of eiger nordwand, it takes even more pressure than usual to turn the thing, you'd be better off lifting a real car. the motors are that strong!
the pedals, however, are not so good, there is no resistance at all in the accelerator, the brake has a bit of resistance but nothing worth being proud of. they work well though and are very sensitive, so is the steering.
next thing, 900 sweet degrees! one phrase describes it, and that phrase is, it takes getting used to. it does actually, on my first few laps i was trying to turn lock to lock but the steering turned too slow and the car regained a lot of grip and spun off. so if you buy this, stick to turning the wheel most of the way, not all of the way, that way it is a lot more controllable.
another thing i find very annoying is not the wheels fault but i'll mention it anyway. in gran turismo 5 prologue, when i spin off and i want to reverse, the force feedback spins the wheel so that i cant keep my finger on the button! i have to turn it so it locks and keep it there with one hand while i press triangle with the other hand.
so, this concludes my review but if i think of anything later i will add it. comments please, and ask any questions you may have. i dont care if they are as unrealated to the topic as "whats your shoe size?" because the answer is 9. lol!
I took it to the attic where i have my ps3 and plugged everything in, here is where i started doubting if it would work, it was refurbished after all, and came in a battered box. but, whats the point of getting scared now? i fired up the ps3. waah! its moving! who's doing that?! who's touching it?! its my wheel! oh, get lost tooth fairies!
so, after that little, um, predicament i loaded gt5 prologue and saw it calibrate again and after the calibration i heard a bang, i thought it was broken but i quickly put on a time trial on eiger nordwand.
thats when i found out, i am crap with the wheel, the force feedback was too strong, but i didnt want to set it down! whats the fun in turning it down? but i did, i was still crap. what i'm saying here even with a half-setting of 5 the thing is still strong enough to rip your arms off. thats a good thing! i think...
but i did find that the amount of force it takes to turn it, i must have been playing for about 2 hours now and my muscles have already thickened another inch. its so hard to turn it, so that means you cant do slight corrections while turning unless, you are falling from a cliff and the steering goes very light, which this wheel manages very well. also, when i come to the first turn of eiger nordwand, it takes even more pressure than usual to turn the thing, you'd be better off lifting a real car. the motors are that strong!
the pedals, however, are not so good, there is no resistance at all in the accelerator, the brake has a bit of resistance but nothing worth being proud of. they work well though and are very sensitive, so is the steering.
next thing, 900 sweet degrees! one phrase describes it, and that phrase is, it takes getting used to. it does actually, on my first few laps i was trying to turn lock to lock but the steering turned too slow and the car regained a lot of grip and spun off. so if you buy this, stick to turning the wheel most of the way, not all of the way, that way it is a lot more controllable.
another thing i find very annoying is not the wheels fault but i'll mention it anyway. in gran turismo 5 prologue, when i spin off and i want to reverse, the force feedback spins the wheel so that i cant keep my finger on the button! i have to turn it so it locks and keep it there with one hand while i press triangle with the other hand.
so, this concludes my review but if i think of anything later i will add it. comments please, and ask any questions you may have. i dont care if they are as unrealated to the topic as "whats your shoe size?" because the answer is 9. lol!
