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Let’s face it, car sims just don’t feel right without using a wheel and pedals. Actually, to be really honest, most car sims are downright unplayable without them. Especially the more realistic they are. (Trust me, nothing comes close to the level of frustration and despair of trying to drive a car around Assetto Corsa using a keyboard. Not a good idea.)
Hefty, solid, and featuring 900 degrees of rotation (which can be adjusted in the Logitech control panel), hand-stitched leather, and a decent amount of metal (from the pedal shafts to the flappy-paddle gearshifts), the Logitech G920 is just the sort of wheel and pedal assembly you need. Featuring a gear-driven motor for force-feedback, it also brilliantly transmits a sense of resistance and realism – from running over ripple strips to pushing your car a bit too hard and losing control, it communicates it brilliantly. So much so, that you’ll find yourself driving by feel in no time. That said, to get it to that point will require a fair amount of time to set-up, fine tuning both the settings in Logitech’s own control panel, as well as in whatever game you’re playing. Get it right, and you’ll be rewarded with a quite realistic feedback as far as the wheel goes. Get it wrong, on the other hand, and you’ll find it either too sloppy, too firm, or set up a dreaded force-feedback loop. (This is where a small tug on the wheel results in the wheel pulling itself first one way, then back the other, more and more violently. This is a common feature which largely relies upon your hands to provide sufficient dampening to avoid this. Set the wheel up properly, and you won’t even notice it.) Also, given the gear system used to drive the force-feedback, the G920 is also likely to outlast belt-driven wheels.
Really, there’s not much more to be said, than the Logitech G920 is solidly built, fun to use, and highly recommended for any racing sim enthusiast. ■