Wolf King Trooper

Approximate Price - $35

Wolf King caters to the shooter crowd as can be seen in their Timber Wolf and Warrior keyboards that break out the WASD and number keys into a circular configuration for easier reach. The Trooper is their first foray into mouse territory and sticking with their core FPS audience it has an extra feature that is only useful in a shooter. The Trooper enables players to set the left mouse button to double-click, triple-click, and quadruple-click which gets you shooting up to four times with a single click. It also has multiple dpi settings that can be changed on-the-fly and the highest setting goes up to 2200 dpi. The Trooper retains the classic laser mouse shape but adds features without getting in the way of normal mouse use.

This mouse is the least expensive of the ones we looked at and with the added shooter bonus is quite a good value. It has LEDs that tell you what dpi setting you are currently using and the scroll wheel will light up and change colors telling you what firing configuration you're using. The multi-shot configurations work surprisingly well for single-shot weapons as well as machine guns. The only problem is that you have to remember to turn it all off before you jump into a menu or back into Windows. Since it's done on the mouse and not in the driver it's hardly an issue at all. The one other tiny thing I didn't like about the Trooper was that it's too light. Corded mice can run too light since there are no batteries to give them some heft but other manufacturers package weights with their mice so you can customize the weight to your liking. That would have been nice here but would also drive the price up a bit.

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