Strategic Commander is a
member of the
Sidewinder series of
devices. It is specifically made for
Real Time Strategy games. The
device, which looks something like a
mouse, is meant to augment your
button pressing capability. It works like any other
chord based
input device, except there is system
software by which you can program in
macros to run certain sets of buttons as key strokes.
I have one, and have found it to be too high of a
learning curve to use
properly. If you are a serious RTS gamer, however, then this combined with a high precision mouse, is definately the device for you to replace the
mundane keyboard for competitive use.
The device is being advertised to go along with
Microsoft's
Age of Empires 2 expansion: The
Conquerors.
MS's input devices have traditionally been of excellent quality, which is suprising from a
company who gets so much
flack over the quality of its software.