CM Storm Sentinel Advance II Mouse Review

Main Characteristics

The Sentinel Advance II has eight programmable buttons plus nine “virtual” buttons created by pressing the TX button simultaneously with the others. This feature is configured through the application downloadable from CM Storm’s website. Despite its somewhat overcrowded interface, the software delivers. It’s possible to create up to five different profiles, and the user configurations are stored on the 128 KB internal memory, so he or she can switch computers without having to reprogram the mouse all over again. The user can program simple commands and button combinations with the TX feature, plus record macros. The TX feature is an intelligent solution that allows the Sentinel Advance to keep the body of its predecessor while adding virtual buttons to compensate for the lack of more real buttons.

Figure 7: Profile configuration

Figure 8: TX feature configuration

The Sentinel Advance II is one of the most beautiful models on the market, thanks to its color scheme. There are seven choices of colors (red, green, blue, yellow, pink, blue and white) plus black (an unlit mouse, of course). They can be programmed to pulse, be on/off all the time, or blink when in Rapid Fire mode, which turns the mouse into a dance floor while the user rains fire on virtual enemies.

Figure 9: Color configuration

Figure 10: Sentinel lit up