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Revoltec FightMouse Pro

Manufacturer: Revoltec
UK Price (as reviewed): £39.99 (inc. VAT)
US Price (as reviewed): TBC

We’re always curious as to how names for products are chosen. Why call a car Sharan, for example? It’s like the name-giver was going through a particularly spiteful divorce at the time. Similarly, we’re perplexed as to why this is a FightMouse when many other items would serve you better in a scrap – pipes, bats, knives and so forth are clearly better options than a gaming mouse.

Perhaps the 1.8m braided cable could be used as a garrotte, but even though it’s solidly made, the FightMouse Pro should only be a considered a weapon of choice in virtual fights.

The Revoltec FightMouse Pro is thinner than you might expect a mouse to be, with rubber grips to either side of the body. While a thin mouse may suit your tastes though, the FightMouse veers toward being too thin for our liking; it’s not uncomfortable as such, but the thinness of the grip means that it’s best held with a slightly rotated hand.


You can get a reasonably comfortable hold on the FightMouse Pro by resting your hand on top of the mouse, but this never felt particularly convincing as it does with the SteelSeries Ikari and claw-like grips don’t get on with the FightMouse at all. As such, the FightMouse suits those who move their arm more than just their wrist and hand when gaming.

To the left are two large thumb buttons, which are easy to use and well placed, while two more unusual buttons lie behind the scroll wheel. The first is labelled dpi and cycles between four sensitivity settings, your current dpi profile is clearly shown by the illumination colour of the five-way (left, right, up, down and click) scroll wheel. For horizontal scrolling, you need to install the driver from the CD though. The button beneath this is labelled ‘M’ for Mode and cycles between three profiles – red, green and blue - which are shown by a small pulsing light in the button itself.

The modes allow you to assign custom or pre-scripted macros to the buttons of the mouse, so in red mode the thumb buttons might control voice comms while in green mode they’d govern melee and grenade actions. All of this customisation occurs in the configuration software, which is fairly easy to use. To customise more than just the default thumb buttons, click Option first; this lets you assign all the buttons (including those of the five-way scroll wheel) to a mode.


The laser sensor has four sensitivity settings, each of which can be configured via the software; you can adjust the X and Y sensitivity components separately if you wish. Finally, you can also set the USB poll rate at anything from 125Hz to 1KHz – the higher settings giving a noticeably, if only slightly, smoother movement. All of these options are saved to the 8KB of the mouse’s internal memory.

There’s a chamber toward the rear of the under side for seven 20g weights, which is handy if you want to alter the weight of the mouse. As all the weights are added to one area at the rear of the mouse, it still feels balanced, and the weight gives it a more measured movement. Revoltec supplies a small box to keep spare weights in too.

Judging any mouse is a matter of taste, but the Revoltec FightMouse Pro is trickier than most to give a firm opinion on. It has all the features of a high-end gaming mouse which makes the £43 price look reasonable, but the shape is off-putting for but those with malfunctioning joints. Unless you like to mouse from the shoulder and have your hand at an awkward angle then it’s going to be uncomfortable to use over long periods.

Verdict: The Revoltec FightMouse Pro has a lot of advanced features, but is difficult to get comfy with – so we suggest trying before you buy wherever you can.