One of the many things you find while playing games, aside from occasional abandonment of other projects, is that, for some games, the controller itself can have a major impact on not just how you play, but how well you do. The first genre of games that one should think about is fighting. Games like Soul Calibur, Virtua Fighter, and Tekken all have different gameplay mechanics depending on the controller being used. It's widely known, especially within each community, that controllers like the PS2 Dual-Shock 2, or the PS3's controller, are not very practical for such games. Let's leave that aside, for now, as I will cover that more in-depth later.

There's another genre where the controller can affect gameplay performance: First Person Shooters. The dual-shock controller is a very good controller for this kind of game, though there are better. I believe the XBox controller is widely touted as the best FPS controller around. The problem herein lies that, what if someone wanted to use said controller on a system like the PS3 for games like Resistance: Fall of Man? There are conversion utilities, though in this case, I'd be willing to take the dual-shock design, given that's what I'm familiar with.

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