It's fair to say I was pretty taken by the G Pro X2 Superstrike when Logitech launched it earlier this year. It was the first mouse I'd seen in a long time that did something genuinely revolutionary. But, just seven months later, it is being rendered all but obsolete by the new G Pro X3 Superstrike.

The revolutionary part of the original was that it made its switches analogue and paired this with haptic feedback to replicate the feeling of a click. This allows for adjustable actuation, meaning you can set it low for less time between deciding to click and actually clicking, and the haptics make sure you feel the click exactly when you should, whenever it's set to actuate.

That being said, it's far from a perfect mouse. I was thoroughly enamoured by it during my testing, and I still think it deserves a heck of a lot of credit for that revolutionary tech alone. But over time its flaws have come to feel more pronounced to me.

It's pretty much the same as the Superlight 2 in other respects, from the shape to the weight, side buttons, and scroll wheel. The side buttons are pretty mushy, the scroll wheel has problems with long-presses, and most importantly—and specifically in the case of the original Superstrike, not the Superlight 2—it's quite top-heavy thanks to those new internals.

The worst problem for a lot of people was that front-heavy weighting, as that can cause drag and, well, just not feel very smooth when picking up and moving the mouse.

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