Saitek Cyborg Command Unit
The Saitek Cyborg Command Unit is a very good gaming controller that puts a good control for all the important keys of gaming at your fingertips.
Ease of Use, Performance: 20/25, Look & Feel: 20/25,
Features 21/25, How much I enjoy 20/25
Total: 81/100
We all want better gaming and having a controller that does what we want is that dream of anyone who has picked up a controller or mouse to defeat the evil warlord or other general bad guy. That goal of being able to intuitively touch a key or push a button and not have to think about it yet do so many different tasks on our computer is not that far off in the distance as companies try their best to merge the gamers action and needs to the computer screen.
The Saitek Cyborg Command Unit is another step in the right direction for gaming and puts the controls of first person shooter and other game genres right in front of you in a nice neat little package. The Cyborg Command Unit is a small keyboard with an analog joystick that you can program easily for a simple and small control keypad.
The keys are marked with numbers as well as the four W,A,S,D keys for the common direction movement keys as well as the four function keys commonly used in games. The analog stick is set on a moveable thumb pad that can adjust for different sized hands with another key on the base. The whole unit can be set for three different modes that can be set independently for three totally different key assignment schemes. There is 21 keys on the pad in each mode and there are three modes using the mode switch but there are also three additional modes using the shift and the Cyborg unit.
The Saitek Cyborg Command Unit has three modes with the first set with all the keys assigned to the numbers they correspond to, the second as an FPS game type and the third a real time simulation game type. The easiest way to see what most of the keys are assigned to is by opening a word processor and hitting keys, in the first mode or the green back lighted the keys don’t do anything while the other two modes will have some of the keys being letters or other functions.