 Welcome to my unboxing and first look at the SteelSeries Call of Duty Black Ops 2 gaming mouse. Now Black Ops 2 might have been a bit of a, how you say, less than successful game launch considering the Black Ops or the Call of Duty lineage of it. However, there's nothing not awesome about this mouse. So we're also going to have a look at the Call of Duty Black Ops 2 mouse pad, which is basically one of their QCK's mouse pads with Black Ops branding on it. So we'll start with that guy. You can actually see already, even though I haven't unboxed it yet, what it's going to look like because this is a SteelSeries QCK Diablo 3 branded mouse pad. So it'll be like that except with a different picture on it, a very different picture on it, a Black Ops 2 picture on it. So it comes in a package that might lead you to believe that it's a hard mouse pad, but it actually isn't. It is a cloth mouse pad on a hard backing. There we go. It is, as I said before, pretty much the same as the other one. So we can go ahead and we can add to my stack of QCK's that I have going on here. Da da da, Black Ops 2 QCK. Looks pretty good, right? It comes with a little SteelSeries brochure about some of their other cool products, including mice, keyboards, headsets, all kinds of great stuff, SteelSeries sticker. And that pretty much does it for that. Now, this almost looks perfect, but if we move the SteelSeries Sensei that I use for my test bench, then we can see what it looks like with a proper Call of Duty Black Ops 2 mouse. So let's have a look at what they have to say for themselves. Arm yourself with a weapon designed for hours of plan to submit to the Black Ops 2 edition mouse. Okay. Ambidextrous shape optimized for all types of gamer grips. Palm, claw, and swipe gaming grade switches have a lifespan of 10 million clicks, which is an awful lot of clicks. Although if you're some of those, I don't know, if you're Korean or something, then you may actually need more clicks than that in the lifespan of a mouse because of actions per minute and whatnot. You know what? That would be a great calculation. I would love for someone to run these numbers because it would be hilarious. So take the actions per minute of one of the top StarCraft 2 players and then figure out how long it would take them if they were playing constantly to actually use the left click 10 million times. It'd be just kind of hilarious. Let's find out what it would take to actually kill the switches on this mouse to the point where they cannot operate anymore. So there we go. That's what the mouse looks like. We're going to go ahead and pull that out of there. Let's go ahead and see what else SteelSeries has to say for themselves. Double illumination options for the scroll wheel, back, and CPI toggle, eight ergonomically placed buttons, seven programmable buttons, supported by SteelSeries engine technology offering operation, configuration, customization, and advanced macros across SteelSeries peripherals. So the frames per second is 12,000. The counts per inch is 90 to 5,670. It's as many as you'll need. Remember guys, SteelSeries uses counts per inch because they find it actually gives a more accurate representation of how the mouse performs compared to DPI, which is dots per inch. 150 inches per second is the resolution, I believe is the terminology for that guy. Acceleration is it up to 30 Gs. Lift instance is approximately two millimeters and has eight buttons. Now SteelSeries has one of the best software configuration utilities that I have ever seen. It's right up there with guys like Logitech. I mean, here's the thing. This is what a lot of people don't really seem to get is that almost everyone and their dog makes a gaming mouse. It's actually not complicated. I could get find an OEM that would make a gaming mouse for me. It could be the Linus mouse. Guys feel free to like the video if you think that's a great idea. Anyway, I could do that. But the part where I'd have trouble is the software. SteelSeries has advanced software functionality that allows you to turn on or off things like angle snapping, things like correction for slight imperfections in your movement, which I turn off because in gaming that stuff's totally useless if you're trying to make minute adjustments to your mouse, as well as things like being able to adjust the CPI to a fine level of perfection that's exactly perfect for your style compared to other software that's out there. So for cheaper or less sort of reputable peripherals, you know what? You're probably losing the value on the software. That's probably where you're getting the shaft. So it won't happen with a SteelSeries peripheral. In fact, you especially won't see that happen with something like the Call of Duty Black Ops mouse because as you may or may not have noticed, this is the same mouse as the Sensei. Look at that. It just has a Call of Duty Black Ops graphic on it. It's actually, if anything, I'd say it's a little bit better because it has a soft touch feel to the top of it, whereas the Sensei has kind of a hard plastic shiny feel to it, and I find this much more comfortable. This feels a lot like my Ikari laser upstairs on my gaming rig. So if you guys don't know, a lot of people have asked me, my favorite mouse ever, ever, ever is the Ikari laser from SteelSeries. The Sensei has not displaced it because I am right-handed and I do like that right-handed ergonomic shape, but what a lot of gamers like about SteelSeries is it is ambidextrous. You can use it left-handed if you want. They've even made it ambidextrous. See, I've seen ambidextrous mice that are ambidextrous in shape, but then they only have thumb buttons on the one side, to which I would go, well, that's not very ambidextrous at all because then left-handed players have no thumb buttons. But SteelSeries goes as far with the Sensei as to put two thumb buttons on either side, both of which are completely programmable. You also have a CPI switcher on the top. This guy right here, I believe, can also be programmed to do other things, although correct me if I'm wrong on that one, guys. But this light turns on and off depending on which CPI profile you're using. See, I can demo that. You can also change the lighting here, here, and on the back of the mouse, which we might as well plug in and see what it looks like. By default, go ahead and plug this bad boy into the USB port. See what happens. Ah, looking good. So you can change the color of that illuminated two there. See, that's what it looks like with it off. Actually, that looks really cool. That was very stealthy, the way that they've implemented that. So it comes orange by default. And gaming grade laser. Ah, yes, this is another thing. Pet peeve for mice. And you know what? I've seen even fairly reputable guys do this. A mouse sensor is not all about how many dots per inch or counts per inch or acceleration or blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. All those specs in the world mean absolutely nothing until you actually plug it into a system and actually run a game on it. Honestly, I was really excited about the Logitech G600. Super excited. I was so excited. I was like, this is the perfect mouse. It's ergonomically shaped. It has awesome buttons and stuff. And then I plugged it into my computer, and it feels laggy. How am I supposed to use it? I've never encountered that with a SteelSeries mouse, whether it's a Kinzoo, Xi, Sensei, Ikari laser, or I mean, probably this one, given it's the same exact thing as this. Never encountered that before. So the quality of the optics they're using in here, the actual lasers and the sensors and the processors and everything that they're doing, it has always been very consistent for me. So there, I endorse SteelSeries mice. Thank you for watching, and don't forget to subscribe.