XYZ Computing has a review of Razer’s new Krait mouse, optimized for MMO and RTS gaming. How does it fare; is it good, or a gimmick?
The criteria for an appropriate mouse for each style of gaming are different, or at least Razer would want you to think that this is the case. With the market starting to accept products like gaming mice and gaming keyboards, it was only a matter of time until someone introduced a mouse for a certain type of game. While it is easy to be skeptical of such an idea, Razer has a great reputation and may actually be onto something here.
Honestly, that thing looks like a gimmick to me. Smaller than the Razor, no side buttons, but oh look, we put an orange LED in it instead of a red one, that is what makes it for MMO’s & RTS’s.
Yes I know the DPS is high, and there is this “commands per minute” or some such that it appears that Razor made up, but it is a three button, high dps mouse, that is all.
I play RTS’s and MMO’s, and I love having two extra buttong (bakc and forward) because in any game worth half it’s code now a days, they can be bound to anything you want.. I like back to be attack for instance in RTS’s, and back in MMO’s is auto-run.
All in all it just looks like a “weeeeeeee we made it first” gimmick.
Koskun on 06 15th, 2006