Genius DeathTaker Mouse Review

Playing with the DeathTaker

The first impression one gets from the mouse is its mixed gripping style. Since the DeathTaker has a big bulge on one end and buttons located too far on the other end, it’s almost impossible to control it with a claw-grip style. On the other hand, since it has a medium-size body, palm-grippers will find it too small to hold it with the hand completely over it. It takes some time to find the right way to grip it, but once it’s accomplished, the experience is very comfortable thanks to the thumb rest a
nd well-distributed buttons. Since there are a good number of programmable functions available, the user can choose the buttons he or she finds easier to reach to assign new functions to them.

It was fairly easy to program the most obvious World of Warcraft macros (invoke mount, attack rotations, etc.) and, since we use a big monitor, we selected a high dpi setting to cover more screen space with fewer hand movements. When in combat with multiple foes, we set the resolution low to precisely pick each one, without missing an enemy on the fray. The DeathTaker performed gracefully at every moment, and it was very comfortable to play with.

We let the weights inside it keep the peripheral more grounded, but the weight adjustment system is very interesting. We just missed some way to store the weights if we had chosen to extract a few of them.