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(67 customer reviews) 32 of 36 people found the following review helpful
Exception stick. Get one now.,
February 23, 2009 Adrian J. Reynolds "adrianj" (Ann Arbor, MI USA) - See all my reviews
= Fun: This review is from: Xbox 360 Street Fighter IV FightStick Tournament Edition (Accessory)
I ordered this item in anticipation of the release of Street Fighter 4 and with the knowledge that the stick would be the very best stick ever released. Mad Katz--who has not historically been known for high-quality peripherals--did not fail to deliver on that promise.
As an owner of an Hori Real Arcade Pro 3 stick, I must say this stick is clearly superior out of the box. The buttons are of substantially higher grade, the panel is easily changeable (for custom art), the stick is ported directly from the arcade Street Fighter 4 cab.
The stick also features amenities that show it was made with a lot of love by people who play with arcade sticks. The housing for the USB cord is convenient, discrete and useful. The internals are easy to get to (simple removal of 6 screws on the top plate, allowing direct access to all parts), which is significantly faster than my HRAP3 (which requires removal of the bottom panel and a socket wrench to remove nuts inside the...Read more
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Great stick. Worth the price.,
December 27, 2009 Victor Vuong "Victor" (Redmond, WA USA) - See all my reviews
= Fun: This review is from: Xbox 360 Street Fighter IV FightStick Tournament Edition (Accessory)
I am a pretty frugal person and I hate wasting money on things, so I started off by playing Street Fighter 4 and Marvel vs Capcom 2 on my Xbox 360 controller. That did not work at all. I could beat single player, sure, but if you wanted any change at pulling off combos, it just wasn't going to work competitively. I then decided to invest money into the FightPad (gamepad).
The FightPad was a drastic improvement over the Xbox 360 controller. I was able to pull off combos a whole lot easier. The d-pad was just a ton better, and things were going very well. The problem came when you needed to use more than 1 button at a time. Like air dashing in MvC2, or doing the + moves where you use 2 buttons at a time in SF4. That was just a pain to effectively pull off everytime, because my thumb just doesn't angle in that manner. So I bit the bullet and I decided I was going to try out the FightStick.
I made the right decision.
If you are going to play a...Read more
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Such an worthwhile purchase,
April 20, 2009 Robert N. Colavito (Greenville, SC, USA) - See all my reviews
= Fun: This review is from: Xbox 360 Street Fighter IV FightStick Tournament Edition (Accessory)
I've been searching around for one of these since release, and haven't been able to find one. I'm so glad that I put in the effort and got one for myself, because it's really night and day with Street Fighter 4. It does have a bit of a learning curve, especially if you are used to using the Xbox Controller, but I have to say pulling off some of those challenge mode trials were near impossible without this.
I spent several hours trying to get some of the hard and even the later normal challenges done on the controller with no luck. Within about 10 minutes of using the controller I had already passed maybe half of the challenges I wasn't even close to completing before.
The button response is awesome, it's so crisp. My only gripe is I'm not a fan of the ball top joysticks, I like the bat, but that's just personal preference. Another thing, is the ball on top rotates rather loosely, so sometimes you think your joystick is somewhere it's not. However, I consider...Read more
