Razer Destructor Mouse Pad Review

The Destructor Mouse Pad

We had a promising start once we opened the package. Sorry, package is such a pedestrian word: the Destructor comes inside a notebook-like zippered travel case. Everyone will eat their hearts out once you arrived at a LAN party sporting a case like that just for the mouse pad. Our opponents will tremble in fear imagining the level you are playing. Of course, as in any sport, the fancy apparel will not make a difference if you suck at it…

Figure 2: The travel case.

The mouse pad is bigger than a normal sized model (you know, those with pictures, company logos etc), measuring 14 x 10.2 x 0.1 inches, with no padded wrist rest (sold separately for their eXactMat model). The back side of the Destructor features a rubber grip to ensure it won’t slip even during the wildest hand moves. It stays put no matter what. After days of intense gaming (and work, after all the site won’t update itself), the Destructor didn’t move an inch.

Figure 3: The back side.

The dark grey surface features the Razer Fractal proprietary smooth texture. Their tests guarantee that it makes gaming-grade laser mice track up to 37% faster (and 25% faster for optical mice) than other gaming-mouse surfaces. Well, we’re not NASA, and a mouse pad isn’t a graphic card that we can measure its performance mathematically, so we did things the hard (and fun) way: we put the Destructor to test by playing non-stop.

Figure 4: the surface.