Jofftastic

I grew up in a time when if you wanted a car racing or a beat-em up game you’d sit yourself in front of the TV and turn on the Megadrive or Super Nintendo. If flight simulators or first person shooters (FPS) were your thing, then you’d need a PC with the freedom of movement offered by a mouse and the array of buttons you can only get with a keyboard.

I’m from the latter camp that lives and (mostly) dies by the keyboard-mouse (KM) combination and find that movement and aiming with a controller is too slow and cumbersome.

Thankfully, I’m not alone and some clever sods have managed to build a unit that can map all the inputs from a KM and translate it into what the controller would normally send to the console. Many see the adapters as offering an underhand advantage, crying at every opportunity that the offending users should be outlawed. Surely then this highlights the flaws in the original controllers and the need for a better interface?

The first couple of products were the XFPS 360 and the XFPS 360 Pro which both met with mixed reactions amongst the gaming community. Those that tried these early units found slight niggles with the implementation that made it hard to use when playing as sniper types.

This is where the XFPS 3.0 Sniper comes in. With updated sensitivity, the Sniper is currently the ultimate interface for games such as Halo 3, The Orange Box and recently released Call of Duty 4. The bullet is well and truly bitten, the order is placed and my adapter is on it’s way courtesy of Play-Asia.com.

Now it’s just the wait for the Postie!