Getting the Best FPS Control on the 360 with the XFPS Pro 3.0 Sniper Plus

When the Next Generation game industry blog listed their Top 50 Innovations in the world of video gaming, one of the control type innovations that they included was the mouse + WASD key setup for playing first person shooters. Developed first in the days of such seminal first person shooters as Quake, the combination of the mouse for precision aiming and the WASD keys for strafing while moving precise distances (and being able to stop as quickly as one moves) gave Deathmatch players a clear control advantage.

Almost two decades later, the combination of the mouse and keyboard still beats any other method of control for moving quickly and precisely around a fast paced 3D environment, and with the XFPS Pro Sniper Plus Adapter you can use this method of control with all of your Xbox 360 first person shooters!

The XFPS Pro Sniper Plus Adapter lets you map the analog sticks to the keys of almost any kind of keyboard (around ninety five percent of all keyboards are supported, so unless you have some sort of really old keyboard there should be no problem getting it to work). Not only the analog sticks, but also all of the buttons on the controller can be mapped to whichever keys you want – make the fire button correspond to the left ctrl key, the jump button correspond to the space bar, etc.

With the XFPS Pro Sniper Plus Adapter you can use the exact same controls that you are used to with first person shooters on your PC with any of the games that you play on the Xbox 360. Excellent sensitivity and compatibility make this mouse and keyboard adapter one of the best ways to get the control that you need to be the best when playing Xbox 360 FPS games!

Has this helped your gameplay? Leave a comment and let us know!

Playing First Person Shooters the Right Way on the PS3

While control schemes for first person shooters have come a long way on console systems, the original keyboard and mouse scheme is still the easiest way to achieve fine control. For many players of first person shooters, it’s the way that they grew up playing, and the degree of accuracy that one can achieve using a mouse instead of a thumb stick, or circle strafing with the keyboard while aiming, is better than anything that can be achieved with even the most advanced game pad.

The Playstation 3 XFPS Rate Up Keyboard / Mouse Adapter is the answer. It makes it so that you can connect any keyboard and mouse combination that you want into the Playstation 3’s controller port. The functions of the Dual Shock 3 / Six Axis controller can be remapped onto whichever keys you want for a configuration that matches your favorite familiar PC first person shooters.

Setting up the Playstation 3 XFS Rate Up Keyboard / Mouse Adapter is easy, as all that you have to do is plug and play. After deciding which keys should correspond to which controller buttons, you’re ready to go! The Playstation 3 XFPS Rate Up Keyboard / Mouse Adapter also lets you set up to eight independent buttons for auto-fire, and you can even set the mouse sensitivity along the X and Y axes independently – more freedom to customize your own gameplay options than you may even be used to on the PC!

As the Playstation 3 XFPS Rate Up Keyboard / Mouse Adapter is compatible with all PS3 games and with practically all (95%) of keyboards and mice, it gives you the best control and makes it a lot easier, as a PC gamer, to get the kind of precision and smoothness that one is used to when playing a new first person shooter on the Playstation 3!

Have you used the XFPS Rate Up? Leave a comment and let us know what you think of it!

XCM XFPS 360 Pro XFPS 3.0 (Sniper) - New model XFPS 360 Keyboard/Mouse adapter available

The latest version of the XFPS 360 - the bestselling keyboard/mouse/Playstation 2 adapter for the Xbox 360, is almost upon us! The enhanced XFPS 3.0 Sniper model features even greater mouse sensitivity, smoothness and precision than ever befores, so you can be sure to get the upper hand against your friends (or foes).

The Sniper model retains all of the favourite XFPS functions -mappable keys, a PS2 adapter (great for Pro Evo), auto-fire and compatability with PS/2 or USB keyboards/mice, as well as wireless models. It also requires the use of a wired 360 controller plugged in at the same time.

They say a picture speaks 1,000 words, so enjoy three thousand more and a video clip of the silky smooth mouse action sniping some villains in Crackdown. It gives you all the precision of an expensive PC setup at a fraction of the cost.

This is available to pre-order here. Stock is expected in within 1-2 weeks.

Enjoy!