Gamers who play first person shooters are obviously the target market for a mouse surface like this; accurate and consistent movement are key and you get both in spades with the Razer Destructor. Who can really tell whether the quoted 37% performance improvement over other professional gaming surfaces is true or not, all I can tell you is that is does track amazingly well but so does its direct competition.

Of course, testing mice is entirely subjective, indeed there’s not really any performance characteristics that I can stick in a chart or graph so you’ll just have to believe me when I say that the Ikari Laser tracks as well as any other quality gaming mouse I’ve tested. Frankly most of them have become so good that any difference in real performance is not likely to be perceptible by a human being. If by chance you happen to be a cyborg; the 40,000 samples per second laser is still highly likely to give apparent smooth mouse movement.

The game's visuals are cell-shaded, and although they are still quite cool, it's starting to get a little old now, and this game isn't nearly funky enough to require the textured stylings. The shading tends to look kind of jarring on the screen, leading to a bright blend of colours quite upsetting to the eye.

But, despite the new environments, weapons and customisation options, the core gameplay of Vegas 2 isn't really revolutionary. The same frantic gameplay is there, the same wall hugging, blind-firing and grenade hurling is there and the never ending wave of hire-a-grunts are there too, but nothing really grabbed me as being particularly new.

Alas, about 30% of the way through the game, when you start having to spend serious amounts of time as any of the other siblings, the interest very rapidly stagnates. It exactly this point that the competent sets copied from competent set designers are no longer enough, the bad guys are more abundant and as such their very limited variety becomes clear, and the poor overall balance becomes clear.