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| Logitech WingMan Formula Force GP Wheel with Pedals |
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List Price: $69.99
Our Price: $59.99
You Save: $ 10.00 (14%)
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Manufacturer: Logitech
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Logitech
EAN: 0097855008664
Feature: Rubber handgrips for comfort and precise control
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Label: Logitech
Manufacturer: Logitech
Model: 963221-0403
Publisher: Logitech
Studio: Logitech
Warranty: 1 year warranty
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Features
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Rubber handgrips for comfort and precise control
Gas and brake pedals for a realistic driving experience
4 programmable buttons for quick and easy control of horn, lights, view changes
2 wheel-mounted gear shifters
USB port connection provides easy plug-and-play installation
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Editorial Reviews:
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Feel all the bumps, collisions, and wipeouts with this force feedback wheel. Stay in control with rubber hand grips, wheel-mounted gear shifters, and realistic gas and brake pedals.Now you can feel what really happens on the racetrack - all the bumps, collisions, and wipeouts - without wiping out your budget. And the space-saving console design takes up minimal room on your desktop while holding the wheel securely with a dual clamping system.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Precise Force Feedback Wheel
Comment: This is a very precise steering wheel and works very well with Force Feedback games. If your games do not support force feedback you will have trouble because the wheels return to center feature relies on force feedback.
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Summary: Good enough to behard?
Comment: The device works perfectly, but the games becomes 10x harder, but the device is awesome!
Customer Rating:
Summary: bad game controller
Comment: I sell this today because is better my thrustmaster wheel (nascar racing but the old without forcefeedback ) I can hit the stop with a low amount of acceeleration, for me the bad wheel I have in my computer.
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Summary: ok, out dated
Comment: Logitech Is a company that seems to have killed off most if not all of its competitors in terms of wheels, since Microsoft decided to stop production of its sidewinder steering wheel line. But the fact is, this wheel, while very good is not their best. The main reason for this is its age. The Logitech WingMan Formula Force GP Wheel, try say that fast 5 times, Is ,in computer years, about as up to date as your gand fathers old 1975 AMC Pacer. So why is this such a big deal? Well, there were a few problems, in terms of quality and functionality, that would need to be corrected. These corrections do not appear on this wheel.
To start with, the wheel it self feels light and plastic. It is easy to grip and feels comfortable, but it also feels like it could break if moved to suddenly. The wheel does give good feed back and seems to react to every little effect right down to hitting little rocks in the rode.
The pedals are plastic and seem a little to easy to break! Jamming on the gas too hard a the wrong moment will cause it to crack. Holding it down with force can also cause this to happen. Another major issue that affects these pedals is the phone line jack type connector that connects and locks the wire in to the wheel it self. It is easy to break and does its job of holding the wire in place to well. I had the misfortune of having this wire fall on the gas pedal just before I slammed down the gas, this, needles to say, ripped wire out of the phone line jack connector rendering the pedals useless. And dont think you can just run down to your local electronic store and replace it, the connector is smaller then a standard phone connecter and dose not seem to be available anyware. I have had to replace several of these wheels because of the pedals failing in one way or another.
This wheel also lack something that was very highly noted in its early days, A shifter. The only way to shift gears is to use the small paddles on the backs of the left and right spokes. The paddles really dont give that good a sense of feed back.
For the price you pay, you get an ok wheel, but why would one by this wheel when the much improved MOMO wheel also from Logitech, which dose have a shifter, can be found for not much more.
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Summary: Adequate (barely) and dramatically inferior to its predecessor
Comment: I used a Wingman Formula Force for about 4 years, and it was a superb wheel that excelled in every game I used it with. These included the Need for Speed series (particularly Porsche Unleahsed) and the Colin McRae Rally series. When the potentiometers in the pedals began to behave erratically causing sudden and unpredictable changes in the amount of throttle pedal that the wheel would indicate, I attempted to replace it.
Unfortunately, the Formula Force is no longer available, being replaced instead by the Formula Force GP. The Formula Force GP (which was shipped to me by mistake by a vendor claiming to sell the original Formula Force) is a much cheaper wheel, and it shows in every aspect of its performance.
For one, the wheel uses a gear driven system instead of a cable driven system, and this limits the responsiveness of the wheel when continuously varying biasing force is needed, for instance, when the force on the wheel is intended to communicate the slip angle of the front wheels.
In addition, the gear-driven system produces a lot of inertia in the wheel and that inertia interferes with the feedback coming through the wheel. It also causes the wheel to have a perceived resisting feedback, even when the wheel should not be resisting your motion.
The pedals are adequate and have a good, progressive response, but they lack any grip surface on the bottom, or sufficient space on the side to use your left foot to brace the base of the pedals in position (both features on the original Formula Force). If you are using them on a surface other than carpet, they will tend to slip away from you.
The wheel provides two "paddles" and four buttons, the same as the previous model Formula Force, but the "paddles" are actually small buttons on the back of the wheel that are much harder to reach when quick reflexes are desired, or if you are attempting to operate the paddles while the wheel is turned significantly. Also, two of the four buttons are positioned at an angle that is awkward for your thumbs to reach.
In short, this is a passable wheel and pedal set, and for the money, may not be a bad choice. However, compared to the original Formula Force wheel from Logitech which it replaces, this wheel is a serious disappointment. If you can find an original Formula Force, or a Formula Force Momo from Logitech, they are better constructed and better performing products.
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