Microsoft Reclusa Gaming Keyboard Review

Posted September 10th, 2008 by Alex Ion

That time of the month again, when we take a few products and test them out to see if they’re any good or not. This one is going to be a bit different but because many of our readers mailed us asking to include some gaming products, too, here we have the new Microsoft Reclusa Gaming Keyboard up for a spin.

It’s a collaboration between the software giant and Razer, famous for developing some of the best gaming mouse, ever. But let’s head on.

The first thing I liked about it is the design that makes it look like a standard multimedia keyboard with interesting and pleasant curves and no flashing or disturbing lights (only a soft blue backlight). There’s one small drawback to all these, and that’s the fact that it’s pretty big. Big as in 20.75 x 10.75″.

However that’s why there are enough shortcut keys nicely located and I’m talking about those six programmable gaming hotkeys, the four bumper buttons or Razer’s Hyperesponse gaming key action.

Another white ball, is that it offers a very pleasant and most important, a truly silent typing experience. Same ball goes to the detachable, padded wrist support which is covered in high quality leather because when I play I always seem to hurt my skin if the weather is hot.

Another big advantage is that Reclusa is suposed to have an ‘instant response key action’ which is great for gamers because they can record key macros. Too bad it only records only eight key presses. I would have expected much more.

Now to the negative part of this review. Guys, how about some media controls on it? How about better volume control or a smaller price. How about allowing us (gamers) to switch the blue backlight on and off? Keyboards these days are not what they used to be, but I’d sure give Reclusa a 9.00 if it were for my honest opinion/ However our friends at TestFreaks rated it as a 10