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Hi guys, I've tried googling on this topic and it's a minefield out there.

I'm thinking of getting the "zboard" to use while'st gaming on my PC.

Anyone have any experience of using this thing?

Any good?

I'm posting this on BF because I've come to trust the info and opinions I've seen on here!

Thanks in advance............
 
I was interested in getting one about a year or so ago. Seemed to me at the time that many were panning it. It would work for a while and then not and there was no customer service. That was a while ago and they are still around so maybe they improved....:confused:
 
I've seen several reviews of several different "gaming" keyboards, and the consensus seems to be that they're a waste of money. I've never felt any need to change from the standard item, myself; though having a lighted keyboard could be of use in some circumstances; used to be when playing WWII online during the night (gametime....) the only way you could see was to turn off all the room lights.
I did spring for a "gaming" mouse the Logitech MX510. extra buttons, extra-fast refresh rate, that sort of thing. Not very expensive and it really works well.
 
We have an Ideazon Merc gaming keyboard on the kids computer It's got great feel and duplicated left hand keys are more useful IMHO than the integrated version on the zboard.

The general review is that the drivers on the CD suck and that you need to download the updated drivers. For our purposes, the CD drivers were sufficient

Both of these boards make some concessions in standard keyboard layout for space issues.

For my PC, I have a Cyber Snipa game keypad. It's merely adequate. I think the Ideazon Fang is a better left hand pad.

I went with a pad as I have an expensive primary keyboard ( www.kinesis-ergo.com ).

As to recommended gaming keyboards, the Razer Tarantula is well regarded. More $ than the Ideazon boards. I've never used one.

Phil
 
I guess it depends on the game type/style you like to play most. the Logitech g15 is supposedly best for rpg games but I've found it to be fine/great for fps' as well.

Good luck
 
On Call of Duty? Freakin rocks! One of my favorite fps games, both 1 and 2 are great overall games with a good balance of realism and fragfest. Yeah, so I like em. Another great but different WW2 game is Brothers in Arms, squad command based FPS, great control system.

For keyboards, the couple I've checked out I haven't been impressed. A buddy had the z-board with I think it was a Counterstrike board? Not really sure. It was ok, but not for me, if nothing else it just seemed gimmicky without giving me much to get excited about. He complained about it being a little glitchy too, but honestly I didn't witness any problems with it, just didn't care for it.
I've got a Belkin Nostromo gaming keypad that I like alot. Good left hand keyboard layout, with three shift states that I rarely set up much of, but setting up profiles for different games is a breeze. But it's comfortable and puts a ton of functionality at your fingertips without tripping over other stuff on the full keyboard(like that frigin Windows key!)
Check it out, works good for me, worth a look anyway.

Syn
 
I just played through COD 1 and II. Pretty good WWII shooters. Minor quibbles (as with almost all these games) about weapon performance and all, but then I'm a "simmer" at heart. Waiting patiently for Forgotten Hope 2....

In contrast, I found the expansion (Allied assault?) to be kind of silly. Kind of like it was put together from left-overs from the first two.
First you shoot down most of the Luftwaffe from your B-17.....
Seemed to me they tried to make some of this "better" by just making sections impossibly hard.

Here's a typical complaint: The M1 carbine you get at one point is unaccountably deadly. One-shot kills all over the place. However, the Garand often takes 2-3 shots to put the enemy down. And then the sniper rifles, firing the very same cartridge, are back to one-shot effectiveness.

That's the sort of thing the devs are working on in the Forgotten Hope series; as much realism as can be modded into the Battlefield engine.
 
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