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Logitech WingMan Formula Force GP Wheel with Pedals

Logitech WingMan Formula Force GP Wheel with Pedals

List Price: $69.99
Your Price: $49.89
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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Great Toy....Great Price Not At Amazon[.com]
Review: the steering wheel is awesome, ...

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Clearly the worst wheel I've ever bought.
Review: There are many bad things about this wheel. For 1, whenever you turn it, it turns way to far to the side, and the car you are driving goes off the track. Another thing is, the pedals don't work very well. When you push even a millimeter dow on the gas pedal, the car speeds way up. Also, the brake/reverse pedal doesn't work at all. You have to reset the car if you want to reverse. On some games, the gas apedal and thebrake/reverse pedal don't work at all. When this happens, the car just speeds ahead, and there is no way to slow it down. Never the less, the wheel doesn't break easily, and it has rumbel built in. If you want a good wheel, then I advise you to by one without pedals.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Logitech WingMan Formula Force GP Wheel with Pedals
Review: This is a very good steering wheel but i think amazon should lower the price to about [amt] i saw it in a computer store for [amt] it is good though.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Review for Mac users
Review: This review is for Macintosh users. This steering wheel is an excellent choice. It works very well with both MacOS 9 and OS X. However, the force feedback feature only works with OS X 10.2.3 and higher, and only on some games (of course). I know the force feedback feature works with F1 2000 Championship Season, which I also recommend.

Yes, the wheel is a little on the small side, and the pedal base does slide too easily. One other complaint is there are too many cords. There's a USB cable that connects the wheel to your USB port. There's another cable which connects the wheel to the pedals, and a power cable which connects the wheel to an outlet. It would have been better if the power cable connected to the pedals, which are already on the floor. Also, after I kept the power cord plugged in for a few days, my computer failed to recognize the wheel. I had to leave it unplugged overnight to recover.

The wheel attaches which clamps to the front edge of your desk. There isn't room in front of my monitor for both the keyboard and the wheel. I need to move my keyboad to the side of the monitor, which makes it difficult to use both the keyboard and the wheel at the same time.

One advantage for Mac users is that you won't need to install any drivers. It also comes with a racing game on another CD-ROM, but that's for PC only. So just ignore the CD-ROMs that comes with the wheel.

The resistance on both the wheel and the pedals is nice, and it does feel well-built. It's a complex controller, so if treated well it should provide years of service. I would buy this wheel for any Mac gamer.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Ok, but it's not really like driving, is it?
Review: This wheel does everything it's supposed to, and at a good price. Install was easy and it's one of the few that are compatible with Windows Me. I have a few problems with it.

The mounting brackets are a little slick and my desk is also, so it kept slipping out of place.
I also could not get the pedals to stay put, again on a slick floor, but I suppose one could rig up a system to keep it solidly planted.
The feedback is nice, but merely shaking the wheel isn't the same as real road feel. It's still impossible to feel when tires are about to let loose, so the feedback is mostly just a gimmick, not an aid to driving well in a sim.
All force feedback wheels and pedals are bulky and cumbersome to store when not playing. With the various cords running everywhere, it's just not pracical to set up to play on a whim.

This is the problem with any computer driving simulation, not the wheel, however. It's simply not possible to design a system that can realistically simulate driving a car. And when I stopped to think about it, I realized that I didn't really need to play at driving. I have a car, a BMW 540i! I guess I'm spoiled by that. It can be fun to drive at super fast speeds on a computer, but for me, the fun wore off fast. I prefer more reasonable speeds and reality. No force feedback wheel can recreate the emotional and physical rush of accelerating from 0-60mph in less than 6 seconds, or carving corners smoothly w/o the jerkiness of a computer sim.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Microsoft Wheel is better
Review: This wheel is perfectly centered, until you plug in the usb. Then it goes off center by almost 45 degrees. It has a grinding feel like it needs to be oiled. It also sqeaks when turning. Driving with the wheel off center makes it harder to reach the buutons. Go Microsoft.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Pretty good wheel
Review: Very good wheel... works great with all my driving games IE Midtown Madness 1 & 2, NFS Hot Pursuit 2 and it definately helped out in Midnight Club 2. Overall.... its a very good reasonably priced wheel.


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