Xbox360 Fighting Stick EX 2 - Soul Calibur 4 Limited Edition

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by: Klaus Holder (New Haven, CT)
on: Saturday, 5-December-2009

Ill be brief with this review, as the product does speak for itself. A year ago, September, 2008 I purchased this Hori EX2 fightstick. I bought it as an introductory stick, figuring it may breakdown soon or be unreliable after a few months.

Well, a year later it is still going strong. The buttons are working as they did the first day, the joystick still clicks feverishly during all my fast paced games, its great. Its nice and small to fit in ones lap, but not too light as to slide around. Its a great fit, a wonderful stick- at an excellent price ($40 at the time).

There are only a couple drawbacks! One, the stick and buttons arent as high a quality as I would have liked, but they work well enough. (I have a Madcatz TE stick for the PS3 also which is beautiful, sanwa buttons and stick. However, I also have a madcatz Standard Edition Fightstick- the buttons are horrid, some have already stopped responding). To rectify this, I cracked open the unit and found it will be semi-difficult to mod out the buttons myself (No quick disconnect)!

Other than this, its great. I still use it over my Standard Edition stick, and will continue to use it until I purchase another TE stick for my Xbox 360. Very well made, and very happy with this product.

by: vladgd (United States)
on: Monday, 12-January-2009

I purchased this stick around two months ago. Not much to say other than its cheap, and it works just fine. Makes playing Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix a lot more fun. With Street Fighter 4 just around the corner, these things should be selling like hotcakes.

by: Brandt (Minneapolis, MN USA)
on: Tuesday, 6-January-2009

The Hori arcade (or fighting) stick consists of Sanwa parts (I believe). Its based on Japanese Game Center cabinet designs, with the Sanwa ball-top joystick and Sanwa convex buttons (which are setup with a curved finger layout). The quality of the product is very high. The base of the arcade stick is plastic, but there is weight to it. You can use it on a table or just hold it in your lap.

The stick works great for most Xbox 360 fighting and arcade games - any game that doesnt require the use of both analog thumbsticks and/or the left and right triggers of the standard 360 controller.

It allows you to setup your own arcade at home - it works great for fighter games (such as Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, Dead or Alive 4, Virtua Fighter 5, Soul calibur 4); shootem ups (such as Ikaruga); puzzle games (such as Super Puzzle Fighter 2 HD, Puzzle Quest); and action/adventure games (such as Bionic Commando Re-armed, Mega-Man 9).

There is a lot of versatility you can get out of this stick. Its a great product at a good price, I highly recommend it.

by: E. Martinez (michigan)
on: Sunday, 16-November-2008

the joy stick is not perfect like the title says but it works, i bought it mainly because i like playing fighting games and i feel they play better with a joy stick as opposed to the horrible 360 d-pad, and while this stick works great w/ games like soul calibur , and virtua fighter 5 , it is only so so with games like street fighter and fatal fury and samurai showdown and mortal kombat, all which i purchased on xbox live, i am looking forward to see how this stick handles street fighter 4 in Feb. but over all this stick works alright just not perfect 7 out of 10

by: P. Zaubi (United States)
on: Wednesday, 29-October-2008

I purchased this arcade stick to play Soul Calibur 4 as well as other fighting games for the xbos 360 like Virtua Fighter 5 and Street Fighter. This product is a great value is the closest you can get to a real arcade feel without buying parts and making a custom built stick. I would highly recommend this arcade stick to anyone who enjoys arcade style fighting games but doesnt have the means to custom build a real stick.

by: R. Waters (Chicago, IL)
on: Tuesday, 28-October-2008

This is a great stick for fighting games, honestly i wouldnt play a fighting game without it. the downside is that the gate for the movement of the stick is in the shape of a square which makes doing dragon punches on streetfighter a bit difficult. this can be fixed by purchasing a octagon gate and doing a little modding to get that arcade feel. other than that the response and everything else is outstanding!

by: J. Tabler (Ohio, USA)
on: Wednesday, 24-September-2008

I am extremely happy with my purchase. I love fighting games and finally having an arcade quality stick really enhances the experience. Pulling off moves is a snap with the extremely accurate stick. The buttons are the perfect size and are layed out very well.

I would recommend this product to anyone who really enjoys fighting games on the 360.

by: B. Etty (United States)
on: Thursday, 18-September-2008

I think by far and away the most important thing to have with a video game system is a good set of arcade joy-sticks. Unfortunately for 360 owners this means you better like these sticks. The good news is there is not much to hate. I am by no means a fighter specialist or a champion tournament player. However, I enjoy my fighters and so do my friends and family. For us the Joy-Sticks worked perfectly. We were able to enjoy SC4 with no hiccups and beat the snot out of each other virtually. Even our 4 year old and our 10 year old were able to button mash their little hearts away on these and they held up good.
The one thing I can say for sure is Microsoft at least licensed a decent product for the game. So if you could use only one joy-stick this one passes the test for sure.

by: Thomas Owens (United States)
on: Thursday, 18-September-2008

Theres really no other choice when it comes to arcade fighting sticks for your 360, this is it. The controls are responsive, the unit itself is quite sturdy, even after my wife played on it constantly mashing the buttons as fast as she can, the buttons hold up well. No complaints on it although wireless would be nice, but not necessary.

by: David P. Strada (Como)
on: Friday, 12-September-2008

First off I would like to say something nobody else has seem to notice yet. The xbox 360 version of this arcade stick has no turbo switches. The ps3 version does. :/ Having said that this should be a second controller for any serious xbox 360 gamer. The gate on the stick is square and works great on every game. Its a bit loud but that doesnt bother me. Youll notice everything about this stick is top quality especially since its made by hori. The buttons are concave and the stick is a cherry. Both notorious favorites in Japan. While Im not a huge fan of the buttons I prefer the convex since I slide my fingers its still works ok. Overall great stick that will hold up even longer than your xbox 360 controller. If you want authentic arcade feel this is the only way to go.