I bought this gamepad from Circuit City myself when I noticed that it was $20 about six weeks ago. Since it was the same price as the Gravis Eliminator Pro, which is far more basic, I decided to buy it. You are right that the quality is high in general, but there IS one problem that bugs me. In fact, this is true of all Gravis products that have analog controls. The D-pad does NOT center perfectly. Very often, when I play FIFA 2002, I will notice that my players run independently of my control when my thumb is not even on the controller. The problem seems to be that the Xterminator Force does not have a mechanism that firmly holds the control at the center position, so often it will settle at a position right outside of the center (usually the same spot every time). Now, I am very familiar with this problem because I have also experienced it with three Gravis Eliminator Pro pads. The first I returned because I thought it was defective. I exchanged it for another one thinking I would not encounter the problem again, but when I realized that this was actually a design flaw, I returned it as well. The third, if you are wondering, was not mine. However, when I saw the Xterminator Pro at CompUSA for $20, I snatched it up quickly thinking a $50 "luxury" controller could not POSSIBLY have the same problem. In fact, it is worse! The D-pad is extremely loose and moves away from the center position with very little effort from the thumb, which would be considered responsive if the darn thing actually reverted back to the center once you stopped playing around with it. I don't absolutely hate the gamepad, since it is rather nice in many ways, but many would consider the problem I described to be a killer flaw. Personally, I am very disappointed by Gravis but for the time being will stick with its products since there are few good alternatives. The Logitech gamepads have buttons that are WAY too stiff.
, so I thought I would put in a quick follow up:
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