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how's it going everybody Kyle here with awesomesauce news welcome back to the channel and today I'm going to be doing an unboxing and overview and even a quick little demo of this game pad from SteelSeries this is their free mobile wireless controller and despite the name you are going to have to pay money to buy this guy but still interesting name nonetheless that's what they're calling it and basically this is just the gamepad for your your your mobile devices so either your smartphone whether it be Android or iOS even will work for PC and Mac as well I'm pretty sure most of you will probably using a keyboard and mouse if you're going to be gaming on those platforms but it is still an option so I'm gonna be doing a demo with my smartphone it's a it's an Android phone so I'm going to be taking it out in just a bit and testing it out to see how it actually all works but it's pretty straightforward uh than that like I said Android iPod Touch iPhone and get their iPad PC and Mac it does connect to those devices via bluetooth so you won't be tethered to any wires when using this product which is always nice and it does have a rechargeable lithium-ion battery so ten hours of intensive gaming 20 hours of casual time not too shabby at all on the back there isn't much bunch of a description that I'm going to go over in just a bit and a couple diagrams showing you yes it does connect to these devices wirelessly and that's the the gamepad layout which I'm going to show you right now I quickly want to go over some of the accessories included with this device so first off you get your Quick Start Guide complete with all kinds of pictures to help you through getting started to use this guy teaching you what different modes that you can enter into and pretty much the layout of the device comes in multiple languages as well you also get a pamphlet with other SteelSeries products listed on it such as their headphones SteelSeries sticker for I don't know representing steel series I guess anywhere you'd like and you also get a micro USB charging cable to charge your device that is and lastly for the accessories you do get a steel series fabric pouch it's very nice it's got a zipper sealant on it right there good for storage and travel alright guys here's the game pad itself and I don't know if you can tell in the video but it does have a very nice matte black finish all around it does even have a rubbery grip to it so that you know you don't accidentally slip this guy I added your hands when you're gaming it does have a very similar design as a playstation controller as opposed to the Xbox controller where there's a joystick up here and one down here you kind of get both of them leveled down below here with the d-pad at the top left you can have the four buttons here to kind of emulate the X square triangle and circle buttons or you know a B X Y if you're talking Xbox and you do have a left and right bumper up here two buttons so keep in mind this guy is extremely small it fits pretty much in the palm of your hand so if you have really massive hands this might not be the best option for you but it really is probably the most compact device compact gamepad for that matter that I've seen on the market so far so if you are holding it's generally speaking my index fingers kind of gravitate towards the center right here for the the two bumper buttons which is perfectly fine I think that's actually whether intended to hit from because you can still hit them from the outside but the more outer of the controller you go it gets significantly harder to press the buttons from from the sides now the a and B buttons are kind of interesting the B button on in one end in one regard is just there for you to map a function to in game so I usually map it as my pause button so I can just quickly pause the game when I'm playing it but it also ties into it works in tandem with the a button in some ways so the a button for one is a power button if you hold it down for three seconds what LED will start blinking indicating that the device has been turned on and then it'll continue blinking in a certain way as you can see so it's doing a single blink right now and that blink is actually indicating that this device is currently in gamepad mode now you want to be in gamepad mode if you're going to be using this device with any Android device or PC or Mac if you want to go use this use this guy with an iOS device for example you're going to need to switch to arcade mode and the way you do that is you hold a and B down for three seconds until the LED light indicates that you've switched to arcade mode but before you do that you need to do it when the device is powered off so I'm going to hold down the a button again to make sure the device is completely powered down and then you want to hold down a and B for three seconds until it boots up again and now you can see the LED is actually doing a double blink and that's going to that basically indicates that you're in arcade mode so now you can go ahead use this with an iPhone iPad or iPod Touch for that matter so it's pretty much it I think I pretty much covered all the basics for the controller design layout so with that said why don't we test this guy out with my Android smartphone all right guys I know I said we were going to do a gaming demo right now and we still are but I did really quickly want to show you how quick and easy it is to pair this to your smartphone so like I said I have my android phone right here I would test this on multiple devices if I had any more than this phone but unfortunately this is all I have right now so you want to turn bluetooth on go into your additional settings your additional Bluetooth settings and wait for the available devices to show that that gamepad the gamepad should pop up there it is z mote SteelSeries free you're gonna tap that make sure you always tap that and now you can see it is paired alright let's move on to the gaming demo this is the moment you've all been waiting for I'm going to load up dead trigger it's a pretty awesome game for your Android device I think they also have it for iOS devices as well but this is one of the games that is compatible with this gamepad here and if you want a list of all compatible games I'm going to put a link in the description below you can go ahead and check that out it's just a SteelSeries website I will let you know what games you can actually play with this guy regardless of which platform you might be playing it on so right here i'm kind of already in the menu here i'm going to go to options and you'll see that the custom gamepad option has has come has appeared down here so you're gonna hit custom game pad now that's that's pretty much just an option because that option only appeared because i've connected this device to it otherwise it wouldn't really show up and that's pretty much going to be true to any compatible game for this devices you're going to have a list of mapping options for all of your keys for all of your buttons and all of your functions in the game so you can see i've already mapped you know my fire button to button seven which is the right bumper and in the Quick Start Guide it'll tell you what number each of these buttons are labeled as so everything's like you know this is like button three this is button four but it's all it's all in the Quick Start Guide so just reference that but it really is pretty effortless to map these so you can just tap on whichever one you want to change so I can just with this guy just tap here and it just remapped it to button seven still the same but just an example of how easy it is to map all the the different key functions to the game and yeah but that's that's the boring stuff right let's get the boring stuff out of the way and let's move on to the game itself so I'm going to save and exit here go back and let's see is that close enough for you guys can you actually see the screen I know it's really a forward reflective um I'm at a new place and I'm still figuring things out hopefully I'll fix that very soon probably by the next video oh I'm getting I'm getting killed how do i how do I do this I have no idea oh he bit me he bit my hand up now this guy's biting me I'm doing really bad at this game I was put myself in a bad spot I probably shouldn't have paused at that moment but here you can see I'm actually I'm actually killing fools and it looks like this controller is working beautifully actually it's very responsive there's no input lag whatsoever it's just instantaneous and it's actually not as horrible as I thought it would pick up sorry when I first saw it I was like this is way too small to even function but you know it's working pretty fine for me and I feel like well this is my third time using it for I guess like a five minute period and and already I'm kind of getting the hang of it so I feel like if I were to play it or use it even more it would become even more natural all in all it's a very straightforward very straightforward very simple easy to use and highly effective little game pad I don't know why I'm showing you my phone we're talking about this now go I want but that's that's going to do it for this overview guys once again this has been steel series free mobile wireless controller once again it was not free that's just the name of it but there you have it I'm Kyle with awesomesauce news thank you guys for checking out this video and subscribing to the channel and I'll see you all in the next video you