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Disappointing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: January 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This wheel is a real shame. It looks/feels great for the price and the light-up meter on the dash is cool, but it simply doesn't work properly.

There is a huge dead zone in the middle that you can't get rid of with calibration, which makes the wheel more difficult to use than the controller. It feels like you either have the wheel in the dead center or turned all the way. This is not the point of owning a racing wheel - I can tap my way into turns all day long with the standard controller, but I was looking for something that would allow me to take turns smoothly.

It will disconnect in the middle of a game, and your XBox will prompt you to press 'start' in order to continue. Gameplay resumes immediately, but this is really really annoying and takes the fun out of playing racing games.

The experiences I had with this wheel leave me with a few questions...

This wheel is supposed to be officially licensed for XBox, did anyone in Redmond even bother to try this piece of junk out before slapping their name on it?

The Microsoft Sidewinder wheels work great on the PC, why don't they make one for their console?

To sum up. Don't buy this wheel. I had it back in the box ready to return about 10 minutes after I got it home.

Great wheel - one problem

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: January 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I've tried driving with just the handheld controller and I would crash at every turn - I guess I'm a creature of habit. I needed a steering wheel and foot pedals - the stick is an added bonus in my book since many wheels don't have one. The steering is great - I have to remind myself that these are race cars and not my regular car - by design they handle differently and that's fine. I'm still adjusting - but after the first lap I'm no longer crashing and am cutting my time dramatically with each race. I love it - except for one problem - I intermittently get a lost connection message in the middle of the race - just exit the message and the race goes on. I've sent a message to MAD CATZ Tech support in hopes of getting a resolution. It may be a problem with my unit - in which case I would gladly exchange it for replacement of the same wheel. When I get a response, I'll post it here. Happy Racing!

Great fun wheel

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: December 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

After reading some of the negative feedback I almost didn't buy this wheel, but I'm glad I got it after all. I've been playing on it for the past 5 hours and have had 0 (that's zero) disconnect messages, or any problems at all for that matter.

The other complaint that I kept hearing was about this "huge deadzone". First of all, the deadzone is customizable and you can tell the difference. On one game (Colin McRae Rally 3) I noticed that the deadzone still seemed very large. That's when I realized the controller settings for the game were not set to "wheel". Once I made this small change everything was great.

It is true that the vibration is pretty weak, but that's ok with me. I certainly have not been a better driver because of this wheel, but it a lot of fun to use and I'm still getting used to it.

Just to clarify to anyone about to purchase this wheel, this IS the XBOX version of the MC2, not the Universal MC2, and I've had none of these so called controller disconnect messages. I hope the defective wheels all got taken off the shelves because I think this is a great product.

wheel

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 10 / 18
Date: November 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

the wheel is pretty nice, but I hope another company puts a wheel out for xbox. It's the same quality as any other Mad Catz accessory, nice but could be much better. and it doesn't have a clutch... I'd love to see a manual set of racing wheels on any console

Does what it's supposed to do at a fair price

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: January 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

First of all this steering wheel will not give you the illusion of actually driving a real car, but it makes playing a racing simulation so much easier, especially for the casual or non-gamer.

I have been using it with Forza (plain awesome), Burnout Revenge (I prefer the gamepad), and NfS2. If the game has a preset for the MC2 it works very well, if not it takes some finessing to get it setup properly.

I believe this is explains the many negative reviews. This is not just another controller. Take the time to fine tune the steering wheel to your likings and to each game, and you will have an absolute blast.

I bought 2 of these and my 70 year old Dad will actually come over and play me now! He absolutely loves this wheel. My Mom and my wife are even wanting to take it for a spin.

As for being buggy, I haven't had a single serious problem with the MC2. One time I was playing with my daughter and the gas pedal would not accelerate completely. I simply paused the game, unplugged and replugged her wheel, that fixed it!

Build quality is very good and the wheel as well as pedals feel quite solid for a game controller.

I can truly only recommend this product!

If there is one thing they could have improved is to save the sensitivity settings, but I'm sure that would have added circuitry (flash memory etc) and thus made it more expensive.

I can't believe a copmany would try to sell this!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I just recieved this wheel for my xbox for christmas and couldn't wait to use it. Sure the wheel is cool and all but what good is a controller if it doesn't work. Yes I am talking about the controller giving me a disconecting error in the middle of a race and having to start over and it happens all the time!!! The wheel also has a very bad deadzone in the middle making it very inaccutare. Don't buy this wheel, you won't be able to play your games with it. I can not believe that a company can get away with selling this thing if it doesn't even work correctly!!! It looks like I am not the only one with this problem since a lot of other people have posted about it on here, and I am sure mad catz knows about the problem but has done nothing!! Nice try mad catz, this is the second of your products for the xbox that has screwed up on me, you will never get any of my buisness again! This thing is going back tommorrow.

Not as bad as they say...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I just got my MC2 last week, been playing at least 2 hours every day and I've not had an error message once! I've only played PGR2 and NFS with it, but not once have I gotten a message. Just to clarify that first, since that reason alone was keeping me from buying this. I took my chances...

With that said, this is the wheel to get for the Xbox. The size is perfect, and the laptop clamps work very well, even for a big guy like me. The buttons could always be more toward the grips...even with my long thumbs I couldn't reach the handbrake (Y). Whats best is the calibration settings, where you can really adjust the rotation degree, and your dead zone. Not only that, but it's very simple and doesn't require you to exit your game.

There are a couple minor drawbacks. One, the pedals do not stay where they should (especially on the carpet) if you use both feet for brake and gas. However, there is a place to hold the pedal unit down with the left foot, and use the gas and brake like in real life. Another thing was, in PGR (maybe just something w/ the game itself), when you are in a game and decide to restart because you're getting whooped, the settings go to default CONTROLLER settings, where your buttons now do different things except for the gas and brake.

All in all, this has completely changed my driving experience on the consoles.
Highly recommended!

did not work for me

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: September 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I experienced the same problem as many of the other reviewers. Every few minutes, I got an error message about my controller being disconnected. There was nothing wrong with the cables. The only solution was to press Start every time it happened in order to continue the game. That got annoying very quickly! I bought my wheel at a local electronics store and took it back the next day. Save yourself the trouble and pass on this one until Mad Catz fixes their product.

A great concept. Now if it only worked.....

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: January 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I've only tried it with project gotham so far, but even changing the settings on the wheel around, it's harder to control the cars with this stupid steering wheel than it is with the regular controller, because you can't decrease the wheel range far enough to handle the frequent cornering. If you were on a perfect oval track like stock car racing, it would probably be fine, but defnitely not designed or even tested much with the thought of actually steering something.

If you insist on getting one of these, buy one used. at least that way you wont waste as much money.

'Really' AWESOME!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: January 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is by far the best racing wheel for xbox. I cant stop playing with it. Its highly addictive when combined with Project Gotham. This wheel is very comfortable and the and well built. The best feature is the gear shift which can tbe found on any other wheel for xbox and the rpm meter lights up on the wheel when you hit the gas. This is a must have for the racing inthusiast.

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