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for to Verizon for is out it's a bunch of fun I've been playing it and while playing I remembered something we saw a while back on the internet and we didn't have a chance to use until now this little guy this is an attachment for your Xbox one controller that turns it into a little itty-bitty tiny steering wheel this made by a guy called uncle Jesse's got a few videos on excels modes Etsy shop we picked one up and we're gonna see how well this guy fares but you know once we picked it up we could have a thought how can make this just a little little more ridiculous so we're going to compare this to playing on this this insane looking contraption is the fort sedition fanatic wheel bundle it's the wheel right here the base is attached to the pedals and then we bought the chair separately but the point is this whole setup costs roughly a hundred times what that little etsy wheel does so you know presumably it's gonna be a better experience just slightly maybe I mean not let's find out so this is definitely like a very because I've been playing forwards up but I've been doing it all on controller and this is definitely a very different experience I mean first off you're using an actual wheel I was after remember one of these buttons do like which ones are which cuz there's a lot on here it's a little bit to try and look at the wheel and the camera and oh god I'm gonna crash this is actually really cool like I'm not admittedly I'm not huge into racing games but this would make me play them more I think like having this whole kind of setup it's very old-school or Katy viable most like I'm a member I'm having flashbacks just playing games way back in the day where you'd have the full setup okay that's what we call it rewind moment we're just gonna that's okay switch the buttons yeah just rewind that that's that's much better so I'm in last I'm gonna go ahead and blame that on talking to you guys and we'll just that'll that'll be our agreement okay okay okay okay we're good we're good this definitely makes like the overall experience a lot more interactive too because I feel like especially in parts where you're in between the major races sometimes it's fun to really explore and try and do some of the tricks and stuff in this but then there's other times where I just want to go to the next race and this just makes it a lot more engaging the whole time like even just doing the free roam parts of fourths of horizon I just it's fun because you're constantly trying not to crash because you're bad wood feels like I am all right little guy we can do this let's try this out okay so this already feels a little weird cuz like it's actually a really cool idea that you have this whole little like gear system for just moving the left stick but it's also kind of bizarre feeling you have to make sure you're really kind of holding on the little like thumb the holes I guess they made for it because otherwise you gotta lose track where you are and you don't have that same kind of precision while turning okay alright this is Morgan I'm still getting used to it but I can turn so that works I feel like I would definitely like this better if I was just using automatic because then I'm really just relying on like the two triggers and then I can just stay seated right here as soon as I have to hit other buttons it gets a little a little weird because I I feel like I have the most precision control when I'm like holding both down this actually isn't bad I was kind of expecting this to be a bit more of a wreck than it was going then then it's turning out to me like I get actually playing just fine in fact I'm actually starting to better yeah this is actually this kind of worked out cool I mean look the wheel is definitely cameras over here this is actually kind of cool I mean the wheel is obviously cooler I mean who are we kidding it's really expensive really nice and a ton of fun but you know for like 15 bucks this is actually pretty cool but here's the thing I'm not good at racing games if you couldn't tell so let's go ahead and bring on some experts that might have you know a little better insight on this hi hi I'm Richard I'm the best racer here well I was doing much better before the camera turned on I just want to know that much back yeah I like the force feedback just cuz it gives you uh kind of just some feedback in terms of what the car is doing like you can kind of feel if the car is like gonna spin or whatever you kind of catch it yeah yeah it's super immersive it's just fun to play with like a wheel and pedals and stuff feels like you're like actually driving a car or it before I even know how to use this thing this thing like it's kind of cool seeing how it works like just like when you're turning you see all the like I guess the gears of this like turning the the joystick you're like this makes it harder to play that maybe it's just cuz I need to spend more time with it I think what the wheel does is like kind of gives you an idea what the car is doing like I don't know if I'm turning enough with this cuz it's just like kind of weird I guess yeh I'm dead last oh but this thing's kind of cool that's a neat idea I think just have to spend more time with in Prague get better hopefully now the takeaway here isn't something as simple as oh this really expensive racing wheel is better than using some little printout thing from Etsy I mean yeah it's an expensive and cool controller and you get what you pay for but what I think is really important to focus on here is there's a lot of other controller options out there aside from using just a standard controller design and for certain games like racing it really changes the way you interact with the content it can make it a lot more fun