Led Slingers

The Driving Force GT comes packaged with a force feedback steering wheel, as well as gas and brake pedals and standard wall plug in power supply. It’s designed to work mainly with the PS3 but is also backwards compatible with the PS2 as well as your PC. Controls on the Driving Force GT include a 24-position adjustment dial (for on the fly traction control, brake bias, etc settings), a plus and minus rocker, four standard PS buttons, D-Pad, sequential shifter, and four shoulder buttons and if the shifter isn’t to your liking it also has shifting paddles behind the wheel.

The wheel itself has 900 degrees of rotation, which means it will spin around about 2.5 times lock to lock making it very similar to a normal car. The wheel itself is well sized, fits the hand well, and is coated in rubber for a good grip that doesn’t leave your hands slipping and sliding when they get sweaty.

Since there is no gated shifter the pedals lack a clutch pedal and only offer the brake and gas (unlike the higher end and pricier G25 racing wheel) however, the pedals have a nice feel to them and throttle position and brake position are easy to control though I feel personally that the brake is a little too touchy. (I solved this by placing a small piece of foam behind it to make it a little more “squishy”).

I personally am impressed with the force feedback effects of the wheel. So Far I’ve played Gran Turismo 5 Prologue, Dirt, Grid, Need For Speed, and Sega Rally Revo and though the effects vary from game to game I think they all work equally well. When you land a jump you can feel the thud of impact, and the feeling of the road through the wheel is incredible. You can feel bumps and ripples in the road. When you enter a turn you can feel the vehicle pulling you towards the outside of the curve. If your wheels lose traction you can feel the car start to slide, and it gives you this unprecedented link with the car enabling you to either make minute corrections and pull on through to continue the race, or goof it and completely lose control.

At 150 bucks I think this wheel is well worth the price and if I had any kind of gripe about it, it would be that you can’t use it in your lap (although the torque from the force feedback is strong enough that that wouldn’t work anyway) forcing you to find a tabletop to clamp it to (with the included built in clamps), or building your own setup (which can be accomplished very cheaply and with a little ingenuity - Google “PVC cockpit” for ideas).

Another perk is a flip down spring loaded spike tread built into the bottom of the foot pedals enabling you to flip it down if you’re on carpet, or flip it up and rely on the rubber feet on smooth floors to keep the pedals from sliding away from your feet. Both systems seem to work very well.In the end, the question is “Is it worth my money” and I would have to say a resounding “YES” if you’re even remotely a little more than just a casual racing fan. Logitech has really outdone itself with this accessory.