great pc gaming wheel (Logitech G25 Racing Wheel)

Member Name: misfit2009

Product:	Logitech G25 Racing Wheel
Date:	09/03/09 (118 review reads)
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Advantages: great feel and really rewarding to drive

Disadvantages: lack of support for 900 deg and H boxes on consoles as far as i know

I upgraded to a g25 from an old ms sidewinder several years ago, i use mine on a pc but i've also used it briefly on my ps2. I love this wheel, it gives so much feel over virtual cars. I use mine on live for speed mostly, and everything about it is perfect, every sideways and every gearshift (albeit with a gearbox which is a little too perfect, there needs to be no force behind your shift, but i guess if you needed to use that same force you'd pull the gearstick out..) feels so real, missing gears is just as irritating as real life, and the wheel swings round to the direction you're going (ie not always straight, like when you're drifting) and you get that realistic bump that tells you when you've wound enough oppisite lock on.

My only slight (and they are slight) reservations are the auto calibration cycle, which is fine when it's mounted, inevetably pulls on cables and traps your fingers when unmounted, i'd prefer that to be a button rather than an automatic cycle, the brake pedal, while firmer than the accelerator still doesn't feel quite right, feels like the brakes need bleeding and because of the design of the pedal box you can't do the squash ball trick (google if you don't know) and with gt4 at least it took none of the advantages of such an awesome wheel (no 900 degree control, no clutch, and only a sequencial gearbox. Maybe games exist that use all these features and i just don't know about them, but for gt4 at least i can't understand why you'd pay the extra over a 270 degree force feedback wheel without a clutch.

For most decent pc racing games i couldn't recommend this enough, and it's most major downfall is the lack of support on consoles (as far as i know anyway!)

Summary: i wouldn't buy it for a console, i'd get something cheaper, but for a pc it can't be beaten

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