Razer Lachesis Review

 

Product Name: Razer Lachesis Wraith Red

Price at time of purchase: €69.99 (Direct from Razer)

Calm yerself down! This isn't a review of the new one with the fancy Tri-Colour LED, but it'll do. As I gather, the actual internal workings of both models are identical, aside from the higher DPI available on the newer revision, so this review will still hold water.

Razer are a company that have been making gaming mice for so long now, they must struggle for names. There are only so many snakes in the world. A quick Google of the word "Lachesis" tells me that Lachesis was the second of the three Greek Fates. But, this being Razer, I'm sure they were referring to the rather handsome pitvipers commonly known as Bushmasters. Wonderful.


The mouse itself boasts an impressive selection of 9 buttons. Your standard three, along with two narrow buttons behind the scroll wheel, used as default for on-the-fly DPI switching, from a measly 500DPI, to a mighty 4000, in user set increments. While this isn't the highest around, it's almost certainly more than any non-professional gamer would need. There are also two more buttons on each side, this being an ambidextrous mouse. The buttons on either side can, like the rest of the mouse, be set to do any macro you care to think of. This would come as a great boon to any MMO gamers out there, if Razer didn't already produce a mouse more laden with buttons just for those people, the half-mouse, half phone Naga.

The Lachesis is a fairly long, narrow shape, suited to people who utilise the "claw" or "palm" grip. For someone such as myself with long, thin fingers, this is ideal. The Lachesis is comfortable to use even during and after long gaming sessions, although I found that my ring finger has trouble finding somewhere to settle, eventually half hanging off the right mouse button.

For an FPS gamer such as myself, the sheer amount of buttons is fairly useless. The inbuilt DPI switching is fast and very useful, however, as the slower, more precise mouse movement granted by a lower DPI makes sniping a breeze, and one can switch back to a higher DPI instantly the moment a sneaky spy tries to make a move on your back.

While not of much use to an action-based gamer, the macro functions work well, and are simple to program. I used one of the lesser used buttons on the right side of the mouse to tell my Engineer in TF2 to set up a dispenser and a sentry in quick succession. Marvelous. I saved at least 2 seconds there.

More importantly, this mouse feels like it's worth every penny it cost. The new, revised version with the Tri-LED is every bit as good, and it comes with the advantage of being able to match it with the LEDs from your brightly lit, omgl337ness PC.

sleepygamer