Rushing to the keyboard and mouse aisle at a local electronics shop, my eyes darted from mouse to mouse, hoping that the raid group I was in would not find another person to take my place. I was repeatedly dying, my anger rose, and my mouse was not as durable as I had hoped. I had very little cash but did not want to buy something that would end up lasting a day then die on me. That’s when I spotted a red, silver and black mouse that was pretty big compared to the other mice but at the same time looked like it would be a good buy. Not even bothering to take a closer look, I grabbed it, got to the checkout counter where I was shocked at the $37 price tag; I took it home and thus started the great adventures and adversities of the Rocketfish Gaming Mouse.

The first thing anyone will notice about this mouse is that it’s large compared to other mice. Really large. The base area of the mouse covers about twice as much area as other wireless mice, which doesn’t mean much except to those of you who need to see every member of your family portrait mouse pad.

The second thing that you notice about the mouse is a little button on the top of the mouse that reads "DPI." DPI is basically the reading of how sensitive your mouse is: the higher the number, the more sensitive it is. The button allows you to change the DPI sensitivity from 800 DPI (John Wayne setting) to 1600 DPI (Owen Wilson setting). The button works fairy well, but is by no means easy to access considering that it is at the dead center of the mouse, which your hand covers.

This mouse has a grand total of four buttons, and one wheel. Two of the buttons are in the standard mouse position, but the other two are located above and below the thumb. Now at first glance, this may seem like a great idea, which is what I thought, but play with it for long enough and you realize that during game play if you don’t keep your thumb completely still, you’ll be randomly chucking grenades and casting on groups of bad guys; you’ll be kicked out of groups faster than Leroy Jenkins. There is hope though: if you choose not to install the software that is so graciously provided with the mouse, it won’t activate the two side buttons. For most games, I have no use for them, but if you do decide that you want or need them, the software is extremely simple to install and comes with a very easy to use interface that lets you set exactly what you want each of the buttons to do.

The mouse is very comfortable and seems pretty well thought-out for a generic brand gaming mouse. The top is hard silver plastic with no horizontal slit that separates the back section of the mouse from the front left and front right clicker, which leads to a much more natural feeling click. The sides of the mouse contour well to an average adult’s hand, and have a rough black rubber coating to insure a strong grip when the mouse bolts every which direction. All of the buttons are easily accessible and very responsive.