Purchase Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel

This racing wheel is a woeful product. First let's look at the physical hardware, and then we'll consider how it performs with Forza 3.

One of the fist things you will notice about the wheel is how small it is. Think personal pan pizza size, somewhere around 10 inches. If you've ever had occasion to drive a real car, even a sports car, you know that this is incredibly small and unrealistic. In terms of buttons, it seems to have all that you would expect, except for the left and right shoulder buttons. This is a big oversight, considering many games utilize them. Another area that I found rather disappointing was the battery and power configuration. The wheel has a receptacle for a standard xbox controller power pack, but this power pack alone only allows the wheel to function at a minimal level. In order to receive the full force feedback you need to plug it into an outlet, which is inconvenient to say the least. I don't recall the package indicating that this 'wireless' wheel actually requires being plugged in to an outlet to be 100% functional. There is also a lack of configuration options that you might expect, such as wheel sensitivity, wheel acceleration, force feedback adjustment, etc. The box also touts a 'lap mount' which I expected to be something that you might hook under or around your legs for support. But no, 'lap mount' apparently means it just sits on your lap. The 'table mount' that is provided is some kind of joke as the mount requires it to be mounted to the side of the table, rather than the center. At any rate, none of the tables in my house would work with this mount, and I suspect non of yours would work either.

The gameplay experience with Forza 3 is just as disappointing as the hardware. The overall feel of the wheel when driving is so far outside the realm of reality it will boggle your mind to the point of ruining your gameplay experience. Imagine that you test drove a car that required you to manhandle the wheel even at cruising speed. Would you buy such a car? I wouldn't. I've driven old and new cars, sports cars and econoboxes, power steering and non power steering vehicles, and none of them has fought back as much as this racing wheel. It is truly insane and will have you wondering if anybody that designed this product has even driven a car. The wheel torques so hard, and resists movement so much, that if you lift the wheel up off of your lap it will violently spin and shake the entire base station around. If you've ever caught a large and irritated fish, it is something like that.

It is possible that I was expecting too much from this product, but then again, $100 is a decent amount of money to spend on a peripheral, and I think others will agree with me that this wheel falls short.

I think this would be an OK product for kid that doesn't have many expectations, but as an adult and a long time driver, this wheel is irritating and unrealistic in the extreme.Get more detail about Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel.