Batman: Arkham Knight tends to work better with a controller than with a keyboard, but if you don't want to dish out for an extra peripheral, this device is as good a choice as any gaming keyboard. The responsive keys helped me get the jump (literally) on my mech pilot opponents in Titanfall gathering and commanding my futuristic army in Legacy of the Void was equally simple. The keyboard performed admirably across the board. I ran the BlackWidow Ultimate through a standard array of games to test its performance: first-person shooter Titanfall, real-time-strategy game StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void, action/adventure title Batman: Arkham Knight, and massively multiplayer online adventure Star Wars: The Old Republic. If you really want to play with fancy lighting effects, you're better off with a BlackWidow Chroma, but the few extra features are a nice touch.

You can also play around with a few patterns, such as ripples, waves and responsive illuminations.

You can adjust the brightness or choose to keep individual keys lit or dark. You can also disable Alt Tab and Alt F4, although you can't add your own keys, as you can in the Logitech Gaming Software.Īlthough the lights are green, and only green, you have a few options. You can activate a Game Mode on the keyboard, which disables the Windows key by default, ensuring you don't accidentally shut down your game in the middle of a heated match. One useful feature of the software is the ability to customize the Game Mode, although you can only do so much with it.

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