Customer Reviews

Eclipse Controller

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I purchased this controller and was immediately dissapointed. It was large and clunky (this is from a dude with large hands). The triggers are tooo sensitive, and not ideal for games which require a bit of tension with the springs. (See ESPN NBA BASKETBALL). I like the fact that the black and white buttons are shoulder buttons. But more than anything else I wouldnt suggest it because within a few weeks the controller started to freak out and then i suddenly died out on me.

Pros
Black and white shoulder buttons
Price

Cons
Big and clunky
It feels cheap
Sensitive L+R Triggers
Stopped working

Mine look a bit different than what is shown but the placements of the START/BACK buttons are the same. The ones I got have white and black buttons above the L and R triggers and had Eclipse on the manufacturers packaging.

Overall they are good controllers. They are pretty comfortable to me but I have big hands and I love the rubber grips going along the side. The face buttons (A,B,X,Y,White,Black) all work fine but have a cheap feel to them. The L and R triggers feel just like the original XBOX controllers. The D-Pad is surprisingly good. Where the controllers hurt though is the analog sticks. Overall they work fine for most games that fall into the genres of RPG and Sports games. But when you try to play shooters like Halo, Battlefield, Ghost Recon 2 and Farcry they just do not feel precise enough. To me they just feel a little to sensitive even after changing sensitivity settings in game.

For the most part these are truly good controllers. I have been using them for 5 months now. I really cannot complain as the Hong Kong knock offs that are swarming eBay are the same price as what I paid for the Pelican brand ones. Keep your eyes out on eBay like I did and you can find good and average controllers like these cheap. I paid a mere $12.00 even for two of these.

Also the construction of the controllers are well made. The plastic molding of the shell of the controller feels very durable.

i have owned this controller for not even a week and it already broke. On halo2 to look down it takes so long.... i seriously recommend you to not buy it and invest your money in a microsoft brand controller. DON'T BUY!!!!!

go waste your money somewhere else, they did not even send me the product shown and once it got here both the (new) paddles died within 1 week completly useless. do not buy these pieces of crap. they did not only send me 2 different paddles from the one shown in the picture but the 2 paddles where actually different from each other to. plz dont buy a paddle off amazon b/c this seems the be one of the only exeptions to amazons great survice

I think that in terms of quality this Microsoft Controller is definetely the best, but is it the best in terms of comfortability? The answer is defintely not. I even found that when i picked up the new "Alien infestation controller (limited)" which has bumps that were meant to be on it all over the controller, it was still more comfortable then that of Microsofts jet black smooth controller. Why might that be? The answer is because of the massive size of this controller versus the smaller more compact size of Mad Catz contoller and even the Alien Infistation controller. For adults, this contoller might be find, but for kids/little kids, they will definetely hate it and demand for a smaller one. That is basically what i did and i have to say that i was much more satisfied with the smaller one. The only good thing about this controller though is the amazing quality, i still have one of these from November 11th 2001, the day Xbox first came out and the controller is still working perfectly well. Another good thing about it is that the cable cord is very long so if you have your Xbox elevated it can still reach perfectly well, you can even sit far away from your console, even if it is elevated and the cord will reach fine.

So basically there are thirteen buttons/triggers/analog sticks (all together) on the Xbox controller. You have the L and R triggers on the back, the L trigger on the left and the R trigger on the right. You have one analog stick on the upper left hand side of the controller and another analog stick on the bottom right hand side of the controller. The fairly comfortable D Pad is on the lower left hand side of the controller and the "start" and "back" buttons are on the very bottom of the controller. The back button is usually used to view stats, pause game or is not used at all, i really didn't see the need in this button. Moving on you have the x button on the upper right, you have the y button n the upper right as well, as well as the b and a button. you then have the white button and the black button which are placed just a little above the four core buttons. There is also a rather large "Xbox" logo smacked right in the upper/middle part of the controller.

You then have two slots on the back/bottom of the controller which is used for placing a memory card/xbox communicator chip into.

The other bad thing about this controller is that seeing it is black, your hand tends to get extremely sweaty after using it as well as the Mad Catz controller. It can be kind of gross when you want to receive a controller that your friend has just used or you want to swap controllers and its dripping in sweat, this cannot be very pleasing at times, they should have made the color white or something, it DOESN'T have to match the color of the core console.

In conclusion, i do not think that this controller is worth its money when you can just get a smaller/cheaper/more practicle controller made by madcatz.