A good gaming mouse is essential when you want that extra edge in your gaming performance, especially in first person shooters. Its a critical piece of hardware that with add of decrease your performance by +/- 20%. Here is a gaming mouse that I think is quite possibly the best gaming mouse on the market today. Its the Razer Diamondback gaming mouse.
Features = 5/5
This mouse has everything that all the latest gaming mouses are striving for. Skip-free movement tracking with an 1600dpi optical resolution, on-the-fly sensitivity adjustment which allows you to adjust your sensitivity even when your playing CS with a touch of a button, seven fully customizable buttons, a carrying pouch if you travel with your mouse, and it lights up! The only thing I missed on this mouse was that it does not have a tilting wheel like the Microsoft intellimouse. However, that feature does not have any real use in games.
Performance = 5/5
A mouse can be really fancy and pricey with emphasis on non-skipping tracking on up to 15G acceleration, state of the art optical led (or lasers now), cool packaging, 10+ buttons, and so on. But it all boils down to performance for gaming mouses. Fortunately this mouse does not disappoint. The first thing you will notice about this mouse when you actually use it for gaming is that it is light weight and has excellent ergonomics.
The grove at the sides are not too deep like the chunky and heavier Logitech 500's+ now. So when combined with its lightweight, this mouse is highly maneuverable while maintaining high controllability. Many gamers, including myself, like to actually lift the mouse up off the mouse pad to readjust once in awhile when gaming. The Razer Diamondback mouse seems to be designed for that. The left and right mouse buttons are large and responsive plastic areas. The other buttons are smaller and are located at the sides of the mouse. I have not accidentally pressed one of there "extra" buttons when gaming and find that they are in good locations. I don't really use them often so others who do may complain that there are actually too hard to reach. Like the two small buttons on the right-most side of the mouse needs your pinky or ring finger to press them, which feels weird. As stated this mouse has 1600 DPI resolution and I have not encountered any problems with it skipping during gameplay even with high sensitivity settings.
Value = 5/5
I've been using this mouse for about about a year and find that its the best mouse that I have every brought. Its light weight and very durable. The buttons have not lost any of their "bounce" even with hours of gaming. The pads on the bottom just needs a wash once in awhile to keep dust from collecting at the edges. They are still very smooth and only have slight scratches that really don't affect performance. There are constant minor improvements from the driver updates that are available from the Razerzone website.
Where to buy:
You can buy these mouses directly from the Razerzone website at $59.99
World of Pwnage Score: 90/100
In summary, this is an excellent gaming mouse based on performance and I think it is the best gaming mouse available today. Its price is reasonable when compared to other gaming mouses from logitech with similar (or most likely less) features.
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