News Editor Garrett Fuller takes a look at the new Zboard keyset for World of Warcraft's expansion, The Burning Crusade.

Building keyboards specifically designed for gaming is a great idea for PC players. I have used the standard mouse/keyboard play style for many years playing Dark Age of Camelot and World of Warcraft. Getting the chance to review the ZBoard Burning Crusade Limited Edition was really my first step away from a regular keyboard into a board designed strictly for gaming. Please understand, when a player has put five years into a play style; it is very difficult to ask them to change. What I found is that the ZBoard helped my game play a lot. It made things faster and easier in certain instances, however I am still adjusting after three weeks of using the new hardware. It is hard to break old habits after five years.

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Final Score:

For durability, enhanced game play, and overall functionality, I give this game a 4.5 / 5.

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Looks like a great game

I use a Zboard I won on this very website, and I love it. I'm not sure why we need quite so many reviews of them when it's all the same technology, but who am I to argue?

My only complaint with my board is that the right-hand section of the space bar sticks down a lot, meaning my sentences sometimes look a bit odd :) Other than that, it's a fantastic board.

Custom keysets are all well and good but as long as the 'space' key only works occasionally - it's worthless, at least as far as I'm concerned. Their shooter keyboards work fine, text entry isn't really an issue. But a game that requires typed communication has to have a fully functional keyboard. I don't have the patience or time to proof read everything I type. Good idea, bad execution.

I think that Zboards are great and i have used them , for quite some time now  both on the fps side and the special keyboards like the first WOW plus Guild Wars   and this board will surely be in my collection as soon as i geth the expansion.