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| Microsoft Sidewinder
FreeStyle Pro
Manufactured by
Microsoft
Corporation
Review by Kanishka
Wanasundera
Introduction |
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Yet another step closer to the gamers dream. It might not put you entirely into the game lock, stock and barrel, but hey, they’re working on it. Right now, the Sidewinder Freestyle Pro is as close as we’ve ever gotten to the Holy Grail. It gives the gamer universal control- balancing the precision of a gamepad against the flexibility of a joystick. The solid-state motion-sensing technology provides a much more immersive, extremely intuitive gaming experience than ever before. This kind of controller is ideal for those high-octane, high-adrenaline, low-reaction-time games that involve the more instinctive, more primal part of our consciousness, allowing you to react and act simultaneously. Gaming has never been quite so...real.
Now that hardcore gamers are rushing out to grab the best in sound cards and video cards to get a truly realistic gaming experience from all those great new games coming out, the time has definitely come to take this step- no, this leap ahead. Now, not only can you see, not only can you hear, but you can feel your game unfold in your hands. Microsoft’s newest gaming controller the Sidewinder Freestyle Pro, introduced to all you gaming fans in May with the code name “Tilt”, is sure to bring much fun and realism into our lives.
System Requirements
• Personal Computer with Pentium 90 processor
or higher
• Microsoft Windows 95 or Windows 98 operating
system
• 16 MB of RAM
• 8 MB of available hard disk space
• Double-speed CD-ROM drive
• Super VGA, 256 color monitor
• Sound Blaster compatible audio board with Gameport/MIDI
port
• DX 5.0 or later
• Internet Explorer 3.0a or later or Netscape
Navigator 3.0 or later, or other frames-capable
browser
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