Wanting to check this dealy out, I went to my local gamestop for the Modern Warfare 2 midnight launch and purchased the throat communicator, *as well as the mw2 controller but will review that later* Its self labeled as collectors edition but really how infinity ward would want to let this product be associated their games name I can never tell, It is truly a total crap product, It its a styled with MW2 on one of the throat pad mics, and Modern Warfare 2 on the intergrated volume, mute...ect dongle all in grey they are not really stylish * a camo would have been better*.
Made by Madcatz *a company with a very iffy timeline of quality control* i can truly say again this a crap product.
Sound:the earpiece must be the cheapest mono one they could find joining a private chats usual bing is screechy most sound is screechy making you required to turn the sound down via the volume wheel quite a lot. the mic doesn't work nearly as well as it should friends, and my own recordings sounded garbled and muted but this may be because...
Fit:it is uncomfortable designed for the neck of a 5 year old child it doesn't fit my neck very well and is not adjustable so its sound quality may be because of this, one would think that optimum sound quality in a throat mic would be accomplished by the actual mics *or mic since there only seems to be one upon further inspection* would be that the mic rests on the throat where as on my neck it seems to just barely reach the throat *adjustablity would have been appreciated if you buy this you better not have a wit of neck fat or muscle.* The single ear peice only comes with one plastic mushroom shaped ear piece no pieces to trade out to see if they fit you, its what seems to be one size fits all but does not accomplish this, it fit in my ear but just barley.
Extended comfort/health warning: as I have said it seems to be designed for the neck of a 5 year old child on my neck it was so tight i noticed a slight headache coming on because the neck wrap was actually putting pressure on the blood vesicles in my neck, suffice to say i had to immediately take it off and rest before said slight headache went away.
Dongle functions: the same old stuff is here volume wheel, on off, and mute but oddly enough it is designed wrong. The audio control dongle looks as follows.
off
|=| mute
on
the switch is a notch switch by design push it down to on and it notches, push it to off and it notches but oddly enough the design is wrong since there is no notch for the mute option, On-off no notch in between to lock it into the mute option. Another problem is this...one would assume you slide the switch to on for it to work right? not on my unit one has to slide the switch to the off position, I found this out after about 5 minutes of wondering why can't my friends hear me in the party chat? why can't i hear my own recording in my voice message?
I reiterate one would assume alone that a 3 setting notch switch would have 3 notches on,mute, off but this one has 2 with no abbility but to manually put it center for mute, and again on my copy of the mic the switch had to be on the off at top instead of on for it to record voice.
half star out of 5 stars
Conclusion: this product is to be avoided it is one of the most badly designed I've seen in a long time, at 29.99 its not worth it your better off getting and official one, or buying a wireless official.
A few edits: I thought i should add some things, namely certain claims on the back of the box claims of comfort, crystal clear communication, and sound quality, as well i've looked all over the package, and the warrenty paper and found no limited neck width numbers, or recommended neck width for use.