

The underside of the controller is cast in a soft plastic that has a tiny bit of give to it that is very comfortable to hold. Mad Catz are shipping more variations of the modules separately, so you’ll likely be able to find your favourite choice of analog stick, d-pad or controller texture design with ease.

The controller ships with two variations of the faceplate – shiny and matte – and also two variations of each of the paddles you actually hold in the same texture that snap on in the same manner. The modular sticks slot and lock into place easily and are then covered with a face-plate across the front of the controller that magnetically clicks into place with a satisfying firmness.
MAD CATZ PC GAME CONTROLLER PS3
The four sticks are split into two styles – ones with concave nubs and ones with convex nubs, again mirroring the style differences between the official 360 and PS3 controllers. If you want two d-pads for some reason – one styled like an Xbox 360 d-pad and one like a PS3 one, you can. If you want a 360 layout, you can have it that way, too. Obviously you can’t plug in all four sticks and two d-pads at once, but the idea is simple – if you want a PS3-style layout with the two sticks at the bottom and the a d-pad made of four separate buttons at the top, you can have that. The controller comes with four analog sticks and two d-pads – and that’s just the start.
MAD CATZ PC GAME CONTROLLER PRO
The MLG Pro Circuit Controller borrows from that design philosophy with its similar modular design, allowing for the most comfortable and customizable experience on a controller for the PS3 and 360. 7 – also by Mad Catz - a hardcore PC gaming mouse that looked like it should belong to Batman, performed like no other mouse I’d ever used and offered clever modular construction. Regular readers of my hardware and peripheral reviews here on Strategy Informer might remember my coverage of the Cyborg R.A.T.

Clocking in at $99.99, €99.99 or £89.99, the controller is an expensive kit even for the hardcore, costing a significant chunk of the original price of the machine it’s for, or as much as much larger controllers such as Arcade Sticks and Steering wheels. There is a wrinkle in what the MLG Pro Circuit Controller has to offer, though – the price.
