Cyborg F.L.Y.9 Wireless Flight Stick Xbox 360 Review

It’s a tough call on this flight stick, for a casual gamer it seems like too big an investment forking out this much money for a controller, especially when most retailers have this stick clocking in around the £70 mark, there is also a lack of general flight simulations on consoles that you can find in abundance on the PC which doesn’t help with deciding on this product, thank fully thought the stick is available on PC, Xbox and PS3, so which ever format is the home of your beloved fly-em-up you do have some flexibility there, but I guess asking for a multi format edition would be asking too much, most likely for several legal reasons on the hardware.

I don’t take my flying games too seriously on consoles, although I do enjoy the odd bash at them from time to time as they can be a lot of fun, the only thing I can say for certain is that with cost of the FLY9 and the choice of games on the Xbox 360 aside, is that this stick works fantastically, if you happen to be looking for a very well built, full customisable, stylish and accurate flight stick for consoles then this is definitely the way to go, but if I were to purchase this flight stick I would likely have gone for the same stick on the PC, but that’s just my personal preference and in no way the sticks fault that I prefer PC flying games, I would love to put this stick through its paces on Microsoft Flight and a few of the more hardcore simulators, I don’t doubt that its performance would be exceptional on any format.

Given that Cyborg have a solid history of making gaming peripherals, I wouldn’t have expected anything less than solid performance and build quality from this product, this isn’t the first time they have made a flight stick and the rest of the products in their range are firm favourites with a big chunk of both the professional and casual gaming community.

I’m going to award the F.L.Y.9 our gamers choice award, while I do think it is a little expensive it does well to justify its self as well as its price with such a wide range of customisation options, excellent design and its superb accuracy, so if you’re serious about having the edge over your competitors or just enjoy hunting down your enemies in single player then this is the perfect flight stick for the job.