GameSir G7 Pro Wuchang: Fallen Feathers Edition wireless controller review

Gamesir’s G7 Pro Wuchang: Fallen Feathers Edition controller is more than a pretty faceplate, and you don’t have to love Wuchang: Fallen Feathers to appreciate everything the G7 Pro has to offer. Aside from its stunning blue and gold design, it boasts Hall Effect analogue triggers, optical micro switch face buttons and TMR sticks, the latter ensuring that, in the long term, stick-drift should be a non-issue.

Priced at £109.99/$99.99, it supports Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PC and Android. Android is supported via Bluetooth, while the others use a 2.4Ghz USB receiver, or the supplied wire, your choice. When not in use, the receiver can be stored in the optional charging base — a boon if, like me, you’ve got a box full of unidentified dongles.

The controller comes with an official Wuchang: Fallen Feathers keyring, another neat touch. The box also includes two additional direction pads, for a total of three: a flat circle, a circle with a raised cross and a cross without a circle.

The latter may not sound like a big deal, but it makes a huge difference when it comes to one-on-one brawlers. Gliding my thumb around the flat direction button, I was able to repeatedly pull off Zangief’s Spinning Piledriver. It did feel like I was opening Hellraiser’s Lament Configuration box, but this is a feat that often eludes me with a regular controller.

GameSir G7 Pro WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers Edition — Image: GameSpew

The G7 Pro is very comfortable to hold, thanks to the textured, rubberised grips. It gave me zero issues during extended gaming sessions, during which I got a good ten hours out of the G7 Pro’s rechargeable battery.

The beat-’em-up factor may be why GameSir chose not to make the sticks themselves swappable, a feature available on some other pro controllers. But I was impressed with how the GameSir G7 Pro performed, from heavy-metal FPS Doom Eternal through to action platformer Strider and beyond. It was super responsive and lag-free in every game I threw at it, before I started meddling with any settings.

There are a couple of switches you can flip to restrict the triggers’ travel, which is especially handy where your draw speed is life or death. Another pair of switches let you lock or unlock the two programmable rear buttons. The placement of the other two extra buttons is a little odd which, instead of being on the rear, are next to the triggers. They’re still useful but you’ll still have to take your fingers off the top buttons, which isn’t ideal.

You can change some settings, including remapping buttons, via the controller’s M button, but the G7 Pro really comes into its own with the Windows-based GameSir Nexus software. You can tweak virtually every aspect of how the G7 Pro behaves, from joystick dead zones to trigger vibration. It’s not exactly the PS5’s adaptive triggers, but I got a kick out of playing with the latter option. As for the face buttons, they’re pleasingly clicky without being intrusively so.

The GameSir G7 Pro Wuchang: Fallen Feathers Edition is a seriously capable controller with a real premium feel. It combines comfort and functionality with an eye-poppingly awesome aesthetic, and has fast become my go-to Xbox gamepad. If you’re after a pro pad at a price that won’t break the bank, the GameSir G7 Pro Wuchang: Fallen Feathers Edition is well worth picking up. You can buy it on GameSir’s site.

Thanks to GameSir for providing a controller for the purposes of this review.