If Infinity Ward's own
Prestige Edition of Modern Warfare 2 isn't enough to satisfy your lust for
custom hardware, Mad Catz is ready to pick up the slack with no less than ten MW2-branded peripherals. The crown jewel to the set will be the Combat Controller, which will have a couple of extra buttons, but more importantly, is likely
the gamepad Robert Bowling was tweeting about last month. Come this November, you'll also be able to talk smack via a
Throat Communicator on the 360 or a more mundane Bluetooth Headset on the PS3, add Skinz to your controllers and Microsoft console, and even your neglected PC can be enriched with an Elite Keyboard and Sniper Mouse combo.
Update: IGN has been first to preview the full plethora of goods, and we've got the video for you after the break (Thanks, quasar).
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Joystiq]
posted August 26th 2009 4:57AM
from Video Quality component like 1st party, the Throat Communicator Awsome, i love the PS3 Gamepad and PC Mouse, very Cooooool themes from the game.
But where the Elite Keyboard, the top of the line?
The top of the line keyboard would come with OLED keys, that could be reprogrammed on the fly, reich colours, maybe even animated keys!
The teaser media would get the intarnets salivating over the potential of this new keyboard, only for it to be price tagged well outside the reach of your regular technophiles, and set to fade into obscurity ...
Oh wait ... Optimus something right?
Who put that normal guy's head on a fatass' body?
perhaps the same person who photoshops for Microsoft.
Sigh.
Modern Warefare is the new Halo. This is not a good thing. Good thing I don't play online.
WOW @ that guy's FUPA
I am determined to buy the updated Turtle Beach X4 headset (the one which, according to Engadget, "keeps tweens boasting"). Still, I am wondering whether it will be possible (or practical) to use that headset AND the throat mic together, perhaps via a 3.5mm jack splitter.
What isn't clear is whether there's a mute button on Mad Catz thoat mic's plug. The video didn't evidence any.
The problem would be splitting out the voice audio to feed back into the X4 vs into the built in earbud. I guess you could wear the ear bud under the headphones, but you won't get the mixed in voice with regular game audio that way.
damn microsoft and the lack of wireless third party accessories.
i'd love to get that combat controller but it's wired. eh.
The weird thing is there are wireless 3rd party controllers, but they are guitars. Even MadCatz makes wireless guitars.
I wonder if it's a licensing cost thing or something.
Mad catz in 2009 just had A Wireless License Specialty Controllers deal with Microsoft not the regular controllers.
for example Just popped up on some retailers Mad catz Nascar Dale Earnhardt jr Wireless Xbox 360 steering wheel part of their new Range which will expected to be announced any time
Damn girl. You got some Tig O Bitties!
Oh, and the new thingamabobers are nifty too.
@AndyS: a simple solution to that would be to configure the Live voice chat audio to be mixed into the main audio output of the game. Although with doing so, 'll lose the separate physical volume control for the voice chat, of course. So, I tend to agree that as a whole, the approach may not be worth it.
Exactly. I should have mentioned that. When I've tried that the voice tends to get lost in the background, but maybe that's just my set up.
I for one welcome such toy guns as peripherals for video games. I mean its good for the lower class of the population or minorities (who usually comprise our armed forces) to start practicing their shooting skills for when they are out in some foreign country fighting in an unjustified war.
OK I'm no "fashion police" but could the guy in the red make himself look any worse? It looks like his shirt hasn't been ironed in weeks, he has some weird sideburns, and despite the fact that he's obviously on the fat side he makes himself look like an elephant.
lmao at everyone making fun of that guys shirt
Bah, I want a controller that looks like an actual gun, not a gussied up normal gamepad.
that big dude needs to get a life lol
WHAT is the price
Wow that man is really swollen.........