Turtle Beach Stealth Ultra Pro Controller Review

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What is the coolest-looking controller on the market? It’s the Turtle Beach Stealth Ultra. It’s an easy question to answer when you see this Xbox, Mobile and PC-centric pro controller in all its glory. It has customisable RGB lighting and a mini-OLED screen smack bang in the centre, making this the street racer equivalent to Microsoft’s tried and tested formula. This a controller that you can’t help but be fascinated and oddly proud of every time you pick it up, and fortunately, good looks aren’t the only thing going for it.

The Stealth Ultra continues Turtle Beach’s design brief to create the best-looking peripherals. Just like the Stealth Flightstick, it packs an OLED screen into the body of the device that lets you see exactly what’s going on with your controller, and allows you to make changes on the fly. While we’ll still lament the Dreamcast’s under-appreciated innovation here, building a screen into a controller is absolutely a gimmick, it’s just one that happens to remove some of the fussy nature of a pro controller. Some, not all.

Alongside the requisite face buttons there are four back buttons, which sit in a row across the rear of the controller. I really like this layout, and they sit naturally under my middle fingers, though you do have to learn where the middle two buttons lie and get used to activating them. In some cases, the layout might be less useful than something like the Xbox Elite Controller’s setup, where you can use both middle and ring fingers to activate the rear buttons, but I found I adapted to the Stealth Ultra in a fairly short amount of time.

One of the clunkiest aspects of most pro controllers is changing up what the rear buttons actually do, but the OLED screen takes on that function in a clear and amazingly straightforward fashion. All of the options are accessed by the + button in the centre of the controller, and you then scroll and make selections with the D-pad and the face buttons.

You can change pretty much everything you would