![]() ![]() Fifteen minutes of trying controllers on for fit and features sent me home with our review subject, the Saitek P880 Dual Analog Pad. I did some cursory research on current offerings and headed over to CompUSA for a tryout. ![]() Today you can get an excellent and more fully-featured gamepad for half that amount. I remember paying over $40 for the original Microsoft Sidewinder. If you haven’t looked lately, good gamepads are cheap. No amount of driver reinstalls or tweaking helped, so I resolved myself to replacing a perfectly good gamepad. When I installed them on our PC, however, none worked with my Belkin gamepad! The gamepad continued to work with older games, but refused to budge for anything new. My family eagerly awaited the release of Lego’s “Bionicle, The Game”, EA’s “LOTR: Return of the King”, and Ubisoft’s “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time”, three multi-platform releases heavy on the arcade action. Many of these games, however, benefit from or even require a gamepad. The success of the PlayStation2, the X-box, and the GameCube has resulted in a wonderful bounty of crossover titles for the PC. ![]() In the market for an affordable, comfortable, and functional gamepad? Saitek may have the answer for you! ![]()
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