Cyber Snipa: Tracer

Is your game sagging? not feeling so l33t? do your opponents seem to be a ½ second faster than you? Well it may be time to upgrade a crucial component in your gaming arsenal and this is where cyber snipa comes in with the Tracer gaming mousepad.

The Tracer is different from the standard mouse pad in that it is made of acrylic glass therefore it provides a smooth lag free surface, it will take some getting used to if you are moving from a more traditional mousepad as the rapid lag free response will come as a shock.

The packaging was a simple plastic clamshell which offered no real protection to the product save from scratches. The product was lighter than I initially thought it would have been but didn’t feel cheap. After tearing through the packaging the first odd thing you will notice is an attached USB cord as well as a jog dial, and this is where the shiny difference comes in as this mousepad can be lit up.

Plug in the USB cable and spin the dimmer switch and you can turn on and adjust the brightness of the light that goes around the edge of the mousepad, while this doesn’t do anything for performance it certainly helps when you are gaming/surfing late at night and you don't want to turn on any lights and it just looks cool. The light can be quite intense and is quite visible during the day and I rarely found myself turning it up to past 50% as it can be a bit distracting if you are watching movies, but the dimmer switch helps keep everything under control.

The surface is smooth and offers virtually no resistance so it may take you a while to get used to how fast your mouse can track on it. FPS games are gonna take the biggest hit as you will often find yourself overshooting on targets, but for RTS and virtually any other application the free flowing nature of the mousepad will be more than welcome.

In conclusion its a $23 (on amazon) mousepad do you need it? No but you can justify it especially if you have bought a gaming mouse to go along with it. It has a large tracking surface and feels sturdy enough to handle even hardcore gamers the only fault I could find with it was that it was a little too smooth, a lightly textured surface would give much more precision but in all its a great product and its blue running lights can help you live out any TRON/Sci-fi fantasies that may be lingering.