Hollow Knight felt very responsive with the Spectra. The motion is still a bit shorter, but it isn’t very significant. The triggers also work well, though the trigger stops are a bit more subtle than the trigger stops I’ve felt on other gamepads the pull distance with the stops at the shallowest setting isn’t that much more shallow than the pull distance without the stops. It simply feels like an Xbox controller, which is a good start. The Spectra’s controls feel close to the Xbox Wireless Gamepad’s, and I noticed little if any difference in analog stick tension, face button stiffness, or direction pad accuracy (though the plus-shaped pad is different from the eight-direction disc on the current Xbox gamepad). I tested the Spectra primarily with an Xbox Series X. Because it’s a wired gamepad, just plug it into a USB port and start playing. The Spectra works with Windows 10 PCs, any Xbox One, and the Xbox Series X/S. An app for setting and uploading gamepad configurations would have been a much better option. You practically need to keep the instructions around for reference. The process offers numerous options, but it’s not at all intuitive. Finally, you press and hold the LED button until all the colored lights flash to indicate that you've exited programming mode. Press left on the direction pad to switch between solid lighting or a breathing effect, and press up or down on the direction pad to adjust brightness. Press one of the face buttons to choose red, green, blue, or yellow, then keep pressing the button to select one of five different shades of that color. Press right on the direction pad to select one of the three zones (the light strip around the gamepad, the left analog stick and face buttons, or the right analog stick and direction pad). First, you press and hold the LED button until the lights blink on the controller's top. Programming the buttons is easy enough: Press and hold the Program button on the back until the status light flashes, press the input you want to assign to a rear button, then press your rear button of choice. PowerA doesn’t offer an app for programming the Advanced Gaming Buttons or customizing the lights. Customizing those lights is a bit awkward, however. The light piping around the controller's edge is a bit dimmer than the lights around the analog sticks, direction pad, and face buttons, but it still looks nice. The light effect is eye-catching, and the color variety lets you personalize the gamepad's look. This effect is customizable with three zones and four colors, each with five shades and multiple levels of brightness. Plug the controller in and these borders light up with a Tron-like effect. Then there’s the Spectra’s main gimmick, visible only as translucent gray borders around the analog sticks, direction pad, and face buttons, along with a similar translucent band that runs along the edge of the gamepad itself. There’s also no battery compartment door, because this is a purely wired controller a recessed, micro-USB port on the top edge connects to a 10-foot fabric-covered cable with a breakaway joint and a USB-A plug at the end. Besides the Advanced Gaming Buttons, the gamepad's back holds three-way trigger lock levers with Program and LED buttons between them. To start, there’s a backlit volume rocker for the headset jack between the direction pad and the right analog stick. It’s a comfortable gamepad that you could easily mistake for the first-party Xbox controller, until you feel the two, flat Advanced Gaming Buttons on the back, right where your middle fingers naturally rest.įurther exploration of the gamepad reveals the significant differences between the Spectra and the Xbox Wireless Controller. The direction pad is plus-shaped like on the Xbox One gamepad rather than the directional disc on the Xbox Series X/ Series S gamepad. The control layout, of course, is standard Xbox: dual analog sticks offset from each other four face buttons a direction pad Menu, View, and Capture buttons bumper/trigger pairs along the top and a 3.5mm headset jack on the bottom. The front panel is smooth, matte black plastic, while the back panel is textured, slightly glossier black plastic. The Spectra feels almost identical to the standard Xbox Wireless Controller, and it shares the same contours. That said, it's a bit awkward to customize without an app. It also has programmable rear buttons, which is always nice to find in a third-party gamepad. Physically, it feels nearly the same as the standard Xbox controller, and works with PCs and current- and last-gen Xbox consoles. This $44.99 gamepad features three, Tron-like lighting zones that enable hundreds of color combinations. They’re rare among controllers, though, and that makes the PowerA Spectra Infinity Enhanced Wired Controller for Xbox X/S unique. RGB lighting is a common sight for gaming gear, such as mice, keyboards, and computers.
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