Cyber Snipa Silencer

Can this Silencer keep the enemy at bay and your hands comfy?

Cyber Snipa is probably better known for cheap and cheerful gear rather than performance specced stuff, but its mice usually buck the trend. The Stinger, the last mouse we looked at, is still in use about the labs, and while the Silencer shares the outlandish looks to a degree, under the blinged up hood there's some mighty fine substance.

Design-wise, the Silencer is wildly asymmetric - like, left-handed gamers will get cramp just looking at this. It's a combination of smooth plastic and light rubber, combined with elegant ergonomic curves. The entire right side can be popped out, too, allowing you to choose between two different finger rests, and under here you'll also find the entirely superfluous (in our opinion) weighting system. There's some awkwardly placed shiny lights to indicate your DPI settings, and the usual underslung light at the mouse's rear if you like your gaming gear to look like something of a drift track.

Sadly, there's no cloth-wrapped cable, though at least the one included, though a touch short, seems pretty much kink-free.

There's the usual software, too, so you can program the Silencer's many buttons, and it's elegant enough - though it would be nice to be able to edit or turn off the lighting. One button that seems quite useless though is the Rise button, which seems to do a whole lot of nothing.

But that aside... man, what a mouse!

We swapped out the pre-installed side-grip for the wider, two-finger model, and in use this set-up practically hugs your hand. Performance in our Modern Warfare killhouse testing showed only a slight improvement in performance, but in terms of comfort, this is one of the best mice we've ever used. You can literally relax your grip, instead letting the mouse (and especially the rippled rubber thumb-rest) grip your hand - if you suffer from cramping at all during long gaming sessions, this is a Godsend of a product.

It's not the best overall, of course - in terms of features and performance, that crown still belongs to Microsoft (see our KitLog). But for comfort and grip, we're happy to loudly proclaim the Silencer as king.