What counts though is how the wheel performs in games and I had the pleasure of running through a number of titles with the Formula Force GP including Rally Masters, Grand Prix 3 and Carmageddon: TDR 2000 (which I of course recently reviewed – talk about killing two birds with one stone). On the whole, the wheel mostly performed like a champ. Even after a long series of races in Rally Masters it still felt comfortable and my hands weren't overly sore even from gripping the wheel rather tightly on some of those trickier corners. The pedals are a decent size and shaped just like regular gas and brake pedals. The angle at which you depress them means it's a little harder to press the brake pedal, just like it should be. On the whole, using the wheel and pedals in games feels right on, just as you'd expect from Logitech.

One thing I wasn't expecting from Logitech was an oversight in which neither the pedals nor steering wheel tend to stay where you put them for long. Although the pedals unit is weighted and has rubber feet, neither helps much on a regular carpet. Each time I hit the gas, the unit slid back a bit, often ending up a good foot or so away from its original position at the end of each race. This wasn't too much of a problem though as my foot never left the accelerator during this gradual journey backwards.

The unwanted movement of the wheel was more of an issue. You have to clamp it onto a table by twisting down these large, plastic sort of thumbscrews. However after only a few minutes of frenzied action over the LAN in Carmageddon: TDR 2000, I spun the wheel hard to the right and the right side of the base subsequently came loose, also spinning the whole wheel unit hard to the right and nearly off the desk. Not good, especially as it kept happening, frequently requiring some cunning hand-gymnastics to swiftly screw the clamps back down and keep my car going in a straight line. Pushing forward and down on the wheel helps but isn't the ideal solution. The reason for this excessive movement problem is probably due to several things. You can't actually clamp the clamps themselves down so when the wheel moves the plastic screws tend to come loose. If there were rubber pads there to stop the wheel slipping a little it might have helped. Although there were blocks of plastic provided that you can insert so that the wheel can be used on thinner tables, that didn't improve matters either, although that might mean that it shifts around less on thicker tables. The fact that the Formula Force refuses to stay put is its Achilles Heel, the chink in its otherwise solid armour.