In this world there are broadly two types of gamers: controller gamers who love simple pick-up-and-play gaming, and keyboard-and-mouse gamers who love digging into every tiny setting. For the later, tweaking the gear is as much a part of the hobby as playing the game.
Me? I'm a controller gamer through and through. I genuinely prefer the simple pick-up-and-play aspect of consoles, and even when I play on PC, I'm using a controller. But if you've ever played a shooter online, you can easily pick the keyboard and mouse players while they are absolutely destroying you with their speed and accuracy; looking at you Arc Raiders...
So, the question was: could this Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike - a gaming mouse that is getting rave reviews and is widely considered a generational leap in mouse technology - convert an absolute hardcore controller gamer like me?
I have to say, as a car guy, aesthetically, I was onboard before I had even turned it on - I mean it looks like a mouse version of Takumi Fujiwara's Corolla AE86 from Initial D with its slick white and matt black looks. But as soon as I did turn it on, I was even more impressed.
Logitech has made it incredibly easy for people like me to get started - while hardcore nerds can still dig into the G Hub software to adjust the Haptic Inductive Trigger System (HITS), Logitech provides a list of preset profiles for different game types. You just click on one, and it's pretty much setup and ready to go.
And right away, it started to change my mind on keyboard and mouse gaming. I always thought it just wasn't for me, but the sheer speed and accuracy of this mouse is staggering.
Quite simply, using this mouse takes your gaming to another level entirely. Under the hood, the X2 Superstrike ditches traditional mechanical switches for electromagnetic coils to register clicks, which allows for faster inputs and better responsiveness.
In technical testing, it recorded an average end-to-end latency of just 1.4 milliseconds at an8,000 Hz polling rate, which might mean nothing to you (quite honestly, it means very little to me...), but it makes the X2 of the fastest mice on the market.
In car terms, it's like the steering in a Mazda MX-5; almost telepathic in its responses.
The hardcore detail I initially ignored is actually why it feels so good: you can manually adjust the actuation distance of the mouse's buttons across 10 subdivisions of the 0.65mm button travel. This means you can set the clicks to register with an incredibly light touch, making it feel less like a mechanical button and more like an extension of your body where you just think about shooting and the mouse shoots - in car terms, it's like the steering in a Mazda MX-5; almost telepathic in its responses.
In short, the Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike mouse has absolutely, 100 percent sold me on the idea of using a mouse for gaming. It absolutely would convert me from a controller to a mouse gamer, but there's a catch... and it's the keyboard controls: I just can't get my head around them; it feels so unintuitive to me after decades of controllers and steering wheels for my gaming.
Now, I know that if I spent more time developing the muscle memory, I could get there and maybe - just maybe - even come to love it. I do appreciate that most games use a similar WASD layout, which helps immensely when jumping between games, and I'm sure a proper gaming keyboard would make a world of difference too.
With first-person shooters I got used to it relatively quickly, but when it comes to racing games, none of the huge advantages of this superb mouse really translate - a mouse is just a mouse when you're in a race; you use it to look around your car, and that's about it.
I tried the X2 with Cyberpunk 2077 on the Nintendo Switch 2 (which supports the mouse mode of the JoyCon controllers) and it was frighteningly good, absolutely eclipsing the JoyCons in mouse mode.
The Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike is an incredible piece of kit that lives up to the hype... It is so good, it truly has this lifelong controller loyalist ready to make the switch.
However... Cyberpunk doesn’t support button mapping on Switch 2, so while the tracking and shooting were awesome (movement ishandled by the analogue stick of the left JoyCon, avoiding that keyboard confusion I was struggling with on PC), driving was impossible as the accelerator and brake were still mapped to the right JoyCon.
I could definitely see myself getting very much into a combination like this, however, with a mouse and a left-hand analogue thumbstick controller for movement. Is that weird of me? Possibly.
In straight shooters, though, it's just staggering how good this mouse is. The combination of the Hero 2 sensor (with its massive 44,000 Max DPI) and the haptic feedback - which you can adjust to feel like anything from a light buzz to a "chunky" mechanical click - has completely changed my thinking.
The Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike is an incredible piece of kit that lives up to the hype. It’s a bleeding-edge product that delivers something genuinely new to the market. It is so good, it truly has this lifelong controller loyalist ready to make the switch. Now I just need to figure out the keyboard part. I can definitely see the purchase of a good gaming keyboard in my near future, which could get expensive all over again...
