what a weird control stick, the fact that sets this apart from other pads is tha fact that you can tilt the pad from side to side to control movement, great for driving games, and flight sims. There are 10 buttons which is more than you'll ever need and a generously large d-pad. This is the only problem i found, the d-pad is tilted, for comfort i assume, and therefore when you hold it up feels like up left, and vice versa. It can frustrate until you get used to it. The installation was terrificand updates on the web are available. The pad also comes with motocross madness, which itself is a pretty decent racing bike game, and a perfect game to showcase the pads ability. The pad is also USB making it easy to install in any new PC, and the MS CD works well to put it on & configure.