The
GTO Wheel by Logic 3 is solid in design, but I sometimes felt the need for ?footfeet? (pedals) instead of the analog buttons on the wheel itself. I tend to drive one-handed, and with two hands on the wheel (buttons are on opposite sides), I was taken back to vivid memories of Driver?s Ed. However, eliminating the use for pedals also reduced the retail cost to you when you buy, so I guess it?s a tradeoff. There are also two ?flick stick? levers that are great for those of you who like racing with a manual transmission, making it easy to shift gears. Finally, there are four small buttons on the back of the wheel for whatever you need them for. Unfortunately, these four buttons only corresponded to two buttons in all four of the racing games I tested, as well as in Windows? ?Game Controllers? testing screen.
So, here?s the scoop. As long as the game you want to play will allow you to set up the buttons via an options screen, you are set. If not, you are stuck with whatever buttons you are assigned. In addition, I was a bit frustrated with the games that didn?t allow me to set the sensitivity, because sometimes I would have to swing the wheel all 135 degrees to the side in order to fully turn (the wheel has a 270 degree rotation). Other than that, the wheel performs very well.
Installation was a snap. Turn off your system, plug in the wheel, and re-boot. Then just follow the short directions in the instruction manual and you should be set. I did experience a problem with my system locking up on the initial re-boot, however. I then shut it off and re-booted again. The computer wanted me to boot in safe mode, but I choose normal instead, and everything was fine... so I don?t know what happened exactly, but my guess was a conflict in drivers.
