ROCCAT takes a step back in time to deliver us a classic design in this ambidextrous three-button mouse, the LUA.
ROCCAT Lua is a tri-button gaming mouse with advanced engineering. Packing a fully-adjustable Pro-Optic sensor in a rugged, ambidextrous V-shape – featuring No-Sweat side grips, soft touch surface, and an eye-catching illuminated ROCCAT logo – the Lua gives props to the past while heading boldly. ROCCAT Lua is a tri-button gaming mouse with advanced engineering. Packing a fully-adjustable Pro-Optic sensor in a rugged, ambidextrous V-shape – featuring No-Sweat side grips, soft touch surface, and an eye-catching illuminated ROCCAT logo – the Lua gives props to the past while heading boldly. ROCCAT LUA Tri-Button Optical Gaming Mouse Review. With some of the driver and software bundles out there, including ROCCATS own EasyShift[+] system, users don't even have to touch the keyboard.
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ROCCAT LUA Tri-Button PC Gaming Mouse Sleek yet mighty, the Lua gaming mouse boasts a pinpoint-precise 2000dpi Pro-Optic (R2) sensor adjustable in 7 incremental steps for long-term gaming session.
TweakTown Rating: 91%Manufacturer:ROCCAT
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Introduction
Anyone who has paid attention to the development of mice in the last few years will know that the trend lately has to been to pack the mouse as full of features as you can without making the mouse too big as not to be able to use it. Whether it is an over the top mouse design, adding 20 buttons or coming up with the most awesome lighting scheme ever for a mouse, this is what manufacturers tell us we want. Considering what can be done with some of the driver and software bundles out there, including ROCCATS own EasyShift[+] system, users don't even have to touch the keyboard to tool around at the desktop level as you can swap out the default programming of all of these extra buttons to make life simple around your PC.
ROCCAT looked at its available lineup and for some reason decided to go back to the basics with its latest release. Just like in the days of Unreal Tournament or even Doom and Quake, there wasn't a need for all of the pomp and circumstance that today's mice bring to the table. All you needed then was a good scroll wheel for accurate weapons swapping, and a left click button to spray the competition with your weapon of choice. Then the games were so fast and action packed, unless you were lucky enough to find the Jump Boots and make it to the top of a tower, you didn't even need the right click button, as aiming for long distance kills just didn't seem to happen much back then. We all remember using our basic mice and were very capable of doing just that, and it seems this is the idea ROCCAT is leaning to for this new mouse.Almost like stepping back in time, today we will be getting up close and personal with the LUA from ROCCAT. This three-button mouse does offer a bit of the new age technology that makes today's mice so appealing, but only enough to get the job done without adding anything more than a little flash of LED lighting to spruce things up and a DPI button to make your time using the LUA as easy as possible making for a really enjoyable experience. On top of that, the LUA and its simple layout made it very easy for them to design this latest optical mouse ambidextrous in design so that right and left handed users can reap the benefits of the ROCCAT LUA.
Stick with me on this one. A three button mouse may not sound so appealing to today's gamers, but I can assure you, the LUA offers enough that I feel it is well worth your time to check this mouse out.
$29.99
- ProsAmbidextrous design. Comfortable textured side-grips. Some customization with Roccat software. High quality optical sensor.
- ConsSome may dislike the lower palmrest height.
- Bottom LineThe Roccat Lua Tri-Button Gaming Mouse is a basic mouse, with an ambidextrous design, solid performance, and little else.
The Roccat Lua Tri-Button Gaming Mouse is a simple, stripped down mouse, presenting something of an oddity in a category where gamers can tweak everything from button height to weight and center of gravity, not to mention customizing any of 10 to 20 different macro buttons. The Lua plays it cool, sticking to the basic three-button design (though it actually has four) and coming in at a much lower price than even other simple gaming mice, like the Razer Taipan or the Steel Series Kinzu. Combine this affordability with a clean design and solid performance, and the Roccat Lua is our Editors' Choice for budget gaming mice.
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Design and Features
The Lua has an ambidextrous design, making it a great choice for lefties, but it doesn't feel like an ambidextrous design; rather, it felt like it was made for whichever hand you favor. The curves of the Lua are such that it felt nearly as comfortable as the right-handed Roccat Savu, making it one of the more comfortable basic gaming mice we've reviewed. Like the Roccat Savu, it has textured side panels for extra grip, but it's a textured matte-finish plastic instead of the gritty sandpaper texturing used on the Savu.
The Lua has an ambidextrous design, making it a great choice for lefties, but it doesn't feel like an ambidextrous design; rather, it felt like it was made for whichever hand you favor. The curves of the Lua are such that it felt nearly as comfortable as the right-handed Roccat Savu, making it one of the more comfortable basic gaming mice we've reviewed. Like the Roccat Savu, it has textured side panels for extra grip, but it's a textured matte-finish plastic instead of the gritty sandpaper texturing used on the Savu.
Though it's called a 'Tri-Button' mouse, the Lua actually has four buttons total: right and left mouse buttons, a clickable scroll wheel, and a sensitivity adjustment button, which cycles through seven preset sensitivity settings. Like the SteelSeries Kinzu or the Razer TaiPan, the Lua is much more basic than the many-buttoned MMORPG mice seen in recent years, which cram as many buttons and features into one mouse as possible. Instead of endlessly adjustable height, weight, and a myriad of programmable macro commands, the Lua is a fairly traditional take on the three-button mouse. The mouse measures 1.4 by 2.5 by 4.6 inches (HWD), and weighs only 3.5 ounces (counting the cable).
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The low-profile design is light and comfortable, and the mouse itself is plug and play with either Windows or Mac systems. For a bit of customization, however, you will want to download Roccat's driver package, which includes a dashboard for adjusting settings, like cursor and scroll speed. The management software is Windows-only (Windows XP/Vista/Win7/Win8). Roccat also covers the Lua with a one-year warranty.
While the design of the Lua is basic, but it's definitely not plain. A glowing blue logo on the palmrest has what Roccat calls a 'breathing effect,' pulsing slowly to let you know that the mouse is plugged in and powered on. The combination of textured black plastic side grips and soft-touch finish on the palm rest make for a comfortable feel in the hand. A six-foot USB cable provides connectivity and power, but it would have been nice to see the cable use the same type of tangle-resistant braided sheathing used on the Roccat Savu. Instead, it uses regular plastic on the cable.
Low-friction PTFE feet on the bottom let the mouse glide smoothly on nearly any surface, while Roccat's R2 Pro Optic sensor delivers up to 2,000 DPI tracking. A button just behind the scroll wheel lets you switch from one sensitivity setting to another, and the customization software will manage this further, letting you cycle between you most frequently used settings. The ratcheting scroll wheel is also good for scrolling through a list one item at a time, as when cycling between weapons in an FPS.
Performance
When tested in real gaming (some Portal and a few rounds of Team Fortress 2), the Roccat Lua was perfectly adequate, exactly what you expect with a fairly basic mouse. Cursor control was smooth and responsive, and even when scrolling through my arsenal or switching between high- and low sensitivity settings, it performed without a hiccup. In contrast the competing Razer Taipan had some misplaced buttons irritating the insides of my fingers. Some users may find the lower height to be less comfortable, but I had no problem with it.
When tested in real gaming (some Portal and a few rounds of Team Fortress 2), the Roccat Lua was perfectly adequate, exactly what you expect with a fairly basic mouse. Cursor control was smooth and responsive, and even when scrolling through my arsenal or switching between high- and low sensitivity settings, it performed without a hiccup. In contrast the competing Razer Taipan had some misplaced buttons irritating the insides of my fingers. Some users may find the lower height to be less comfortable, but I had no problem with it.
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While you can't compare the Roccat Lua to a feature-laden gaming mouse, like our Editors' Choice Gigabyte M8000Xtreme, the Lua is probably the best among its immediate peers, the simple budget gaming mouse. With none of the irritating side buttons of the Razer Taipan, and selling for less than the very similar SteelSeries Kinzu, the Roccat Lua is a solid mouse at a price that any gamer can afford. As a result, it's our Editors' Choice for budget gaming mice.
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Bottom Line: The Roccat Lua Tri-Button Gaming Mouse is a basic mouse, with an ambidextrous design, solid performance, and little else.
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