The Logitech Extreme 3D Pro - sounds cool, right? Well yes it is. The action is smooth when you buy it and has a twist function for rudder control, meaning that you can do some pretty cool manouvres in flight (if that's your game).
So, a happy story with a happy ending - I have game, I kill people, I fly fast, high, low, smooth - and we all live happily ever after? Not quite.
3 months after buying the Joystick (J/s - too lazy to type it again) It starts playing up. First the twist function started to relax and become MUCH less responsive. The J/s then, bizarrely, started to yaw to the right when I banked to the left - result? Stall or complete lack of control.
The fault was that the wires to the top panel and control hat (little directional-pad on the top of the J/s) were too short and had wrenched the potentiometer controlling the twist function from its housing. This in turn had pulled a wire from the mini-socket on the circuit board. After some soldering and some infuriating tweaking, it worked reasonably and I could kill again - reasonably. But I'd voided my warranty by opening the J/s up. If you research around, you'll find that some people are on their 3rd or 4th replacement from Logitech, and given the short(ish) warranty, this would suggest that many people have had the same problem within a similar timeframe.
This is not right for a product that is only 3 months old. In fact it's plain wrong. It may be pretty, it may have 12 shiny, multi-function buttons, it may have a twist function for the rudder, but it's just a waste of money, and now it's getting close to just being a paperweight.
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Advantages: Good design, lots of buttons, twist handle, good base, decent price Disadvantages: Small throttle, mostly for right handers, slightly loose
Advantages: Good design, lots of buttons, twist handle, good base, decent price Disadvantages: Small throttle, mostly for right handers, slightly loose
Nov 8th, 2004
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