#1. My first impression was disappointing. First, the packaging is nothing like what you see on the website. These are just in heat sealed bags and not the cutout foam you see on the website. That diminished the first impression...ultimately not a huge deal since it would all end up in the trash anyway.
#2 I ordered the green but these are nowhere near the green you see on the web. They are considerable less vivid a green than I expected. I wrestled back and forth between green and blue and now regret not getting blue because this green is pretty dull.
#2.1 The green on the "Fusion grips" are a different green from the whole kit. They are actually closer perhaps to the green I was expecting. Perhaps as I have seen mentioned in another review "the fusion grips" should be the standard ones, not sure yet...gotta get some game time on them and I will update this opinion after some use...
#2.2 The spacers are NOT GREEN. They are silver, blue and black. Fail. They should match. No reason not to for a product at this price point.
#2.3 Given the apparent inconsistency in their anodizing process you might just order black or silver.
#3 Everyone that has said so far to watch the video are for the most part right on. The included "directions" if you can call them that, are just an exploded view of the controller. I follow these kinds of instructions pretty well but in this case I had already watched the video while waiting on them to arrive so that influenced may have my opinion of the included literature.
#3.1 They included several optional length set screws, three of each. It seems like that's not necessary. Perhaps it was to give you height options on the D-pad joystick but I don't know why you would need/want that since the concept as a whole is brand new to us all. The fault in the design here is that the threading goes all the way through the D-pad and if any part of the set screw goes thru then you cannot screw the D-pad down properly. Later, the only thing stopping the screw will be the plastic piece of the original D-pad that you keep with the ModSticks...could be a problem later if that screw digs into the plastic below. If you bottom the medium length set screw into the joystick is protrudes through the D-pad. The shortest set is the only one that does not protrude but it also does not bottom in the joystick. Minor fail on the design here.
#3.2 The directions do not say, well, anything but the video said to thread the set screws into the parts that are internal to the controller shell first. I suggest it might be better to bottom them into to the grip instead. I think that you might tighten them in the grip tighter with the wrench to have the connection to the controller be the finger tight part to avoid getting the wrong end stuck in the future. It would also I think be better for the set screws to have the hex on both ends in the event that later when/if changing the grips the set screw stays un-hexed side out making it difficult to extract. Perhaps have the threaded hole go all the way through the grips...that may be the easiest thing to fix and prevent stuck set screws...could make the set screws actual torx screws instead. In fact replace the Philips screws on the D-pad with torx as well and you are down to a one tool install rather than the three we have now. That will make the spiffy tool included seem more useful since you pay for it, need it or not.
#3.3 That tool. Nice and all but some of us have one already. Even if we don't, if we are doing more than one controller we don't need but one tool yet we have to buy it for each set...presumably an additional $9.99 (what it sells for alone) per extra set that we don't need. Don't include it and knock down the cost of these by that amount. Winning idea there if I do say so myself...and I did!
#4 I must say that even though the color is terrible the look pretty sharp. They feel smooth and fit is good. The D-pad has a tiny amount of wiggle that I didn't feel on the plastic one but that could be skewed by the joystick and also is probably not an issue anyway. I think the included grips feel pretty nice...need to get them warmed up with an hour or two of thumb sweat to see if they get slick but I suspect they will be better than stock in any event. We will see.
#5 I will report back with playability impressions after I put a few hours on them...for now I have to give them 3.5 stars based on what I have listed so far...
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I was amazed how adjustable Modsticks Pro are. I tried FPS Freeks sticks but i could never get the feel i was looking for they are too tall. The Modsticks Pro come with all the tools spacers and screws to adjust the height of the analog sticks just how i like them, with no spacers they are a little lower than normal and they can go higher than FPS freeks. The higher you set them the more accuracy you get moving the sticks. I also added the modstick fusion grips to my xbox controller. They are super comfortable even though they are aluminum. The Modsticks are narrower coming out of the controller this lets them mover further. Set your controllers sensitivity to max then move the stick over and you will go even faster than your supposed to. It took about 10 min to install them it is worth watching the install videos on youtube. They are not cheap but totally worth it if you are really into xbox 360 gaming.
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