I've been flying various flight sims with previous versions of Trackir for years and it works great. It isn't for shooters, it's for controlling your view from a cockpit when you've got one hand on a stick, another on a throttle, and both feet on rudder pedals. It takes about an hour to get used to, but after that it's as natural as using a mouse. Similar web cam apps work, but they are not nearly as precise.
It's a very niche product and its a safe bet that 95% of Trackir owners will purchase Arma2.
What the market really needs is a PC console, what the Xbox and 360 should have been. If Microsoft would market a machine that serves as both PC and gaming console it would be good for everybody. Developers would get a standardized universal hardware platform and consumers would get a PC that will be obsolete in 5 years instead of 18 months. Even at twice the price of the current generation console, you would be crazy not to buy one. It would need to come in 2 flavors, the PC/console combo and the console only version for half price to satisfy the more casual end of the market. We need a hardware standard to save the hardcore PC market, not more high end hardware that's going to be trash in two years.
It's definitely flawed but I've put more hours into Oblivion than any other non-MMO. And lets face it, half the time I spent playing WoW, I didn't enjoy it, I just played because I couldn't stop. At least with Oblivion, I actually enjoyed playing it for 500 hours. So ya, i think Oblivion qualifies for "best game ever" in my book.
I don't own a 360 and never really bothered with GoW multiplayer since I didn't want to pay for a gold membership just for GoW. I hoped on last night since windows live went free and holy crap the multiplayer is good. The only problem was that there was just a handful of active servers. So if you own GoW PC, get too it. Join some matches or host your own. Now I see what the fuss was about!
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