Turtle Beach Titanfall Atlas Multi-Format Gaming Headset

Final Thoughts

Price

The Turtle Beach Titanfall Atlas is quite expensive, and while I suspect in some respects you’re paying for the brand names (both Turtle Beach and Titanfall), it’s not much more expensive that none Titanfall branded Turtle Beach headsets of a similar specification. For around this kind of money I can find a few similar performance headsets, but in most cases it all boils down to personal preference rather than which is better or worse. If you were to buy a dedicated PC headset you could certainly get better quality, but given that this headset ticks the boxes for PlayStation, Xbox, PC and mobile, you’re saving money by only purchasing one headset to work on each, which is obviously a very good way of saving money and not having to store and maintain multiple headsets. At time of writing I found one really good deal on this headset that brings the price down to £115 from Zavvi.co.uk, still expensive, but the slightly lower price helps make it more competitive.

Overview

Having a high quality headset can really change your gaming experience, giving you a level of immersion that often can’t be achieved with your regular speakers, but also by shielding you from the sounds of the world around you, leaving you to focus on the game you’re playing. They also bring great benefits to team chat, because yelling through your Kinect or PSEye isn’t exactly ideal. The Titanfall Atlas shows its strength when it comes to gaming, the chat microphone is pin sharp and it won’t take long before you and your team mates reap the benefits of being able to communicate more clearly. The punchy bass and clear high tones mean you can enjoy the thundering engines and gunfire from your favourite multiplayer games, but all while maintaining a solid level of clarity for your party chat. This is further improved by using the chat and game volume controls, as it means you can focus you attention on the things you really want to hear.

The headset may only be made from plastic, but it feels really robust, so much so that the headset is actually a little uncomfortable at first. It really clamps on to your head, but of course this will be different for each user as we all have different size and shaped heads. However, after extended use, the foam padding and to a lesser extent, the plastic frame, will break in a little and you’ll learn to like the closer fit since it keeps the drivers snug against your ear, blocking out external noise.

Titanfall does sound great on this headset, but so too does any game really. I fired up a few games of Forza, Titanfall and Battlefield 4, even moving over to the Xbox 360 for some Halo CE: Anniversary campaign mode and finally hooking it up to my Nvidia Shield to use on Skype and play some Ridge Racer. The Atlas headset didn’t have any issues with any of them and they all sounded great. As I said before, movies and music sound very good, not quite as good as dedicated headphones, but still good enough to justify their price tag, especially when you consider that the headset is quite versatile in terms of format support.

“Multi format support, rock solid build quality, powerful audio and more make the Turtle Beach Titanfall Atlas a solid all-rounder that is perfect for those who not only own an Xbox One, but also don’t want to invest in a separate headset for all their other gaming systems. The Turtle Beach brand often means paying a premium, but their attention to detail goes a long way to justifying the price tag.”

Pros

• Powerful drivers
• Multi format support
• One of the few premium Xbox One headsets on the market
• Good build quality
• Lightweight construction
• Detachable microphone
• In-line controller

Cons

• Can be uncomfortable at first
• High price tag may put off many
• No Xbox 360 audio splitter included (despite the premium price tag)
• Lack of technical hardware specifications on packaging and website

Thank you TurtleBeach for providing us with this sample.