Taking the mouse out of the box, I initially thought it was uniform and would work with either my right or left hand, but the left side of the mouse has a slightly more visible bulge, which allows for the thumb to rest against. The Rival 3 thankfully, manages to meet both of those aspects, with relative ease and even with significant use, there was only really one thing I wanted changed on it, but enough about that, let us get into it.įorm, the shape of something is crucial to anything we use with a computer, but a mouse it is perhaps just slightly more than function, the Rival 3 has a solid form. There are two critical parts to any mouse, form and function, basically how it looks and feels, combined with how it works, if one area fails, the mouse as a whole fails, it is pretty straight forward, there is no point having a mouse that looks amazing, but only has the ability to light up.

In the past I have not reviewed a lot of mice, because they are mice and honestly how much can you really say about them, but I have started to think more, prior to getting the Rival 3, about what makes a good mouse and when the Rival 3 did show up, I decided to put my thoughts to the test.

There was also a period where a mouse needed to have more buttons than we have fingers, but the trend has reversed and we are back to a normal amount, so how can a mouse that looks as plain as day, compete, find out. Gaming hardware has been making leaps and bounds over the past few years, for a while there, almost every mouse had to be wireless, but then the trend changed, and we went back to corded.

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