Is there a keyboard/mouse option for the PS3?

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I got resistance 2 for my birthday the other day, and I'm finally getting around to playing it. The game is fine, so far(I'm in chapter 1), but I fucking loathe controllers for first person shooters and this is no exception.

I have a wireless mouse/keyboard that works perfectly on the 360, but it doesn't work at all on the PS3. So, is there anything I can buy/use to give me a mouse/keyboard? The mouse is the critical part, the keyboard just has to be something that I can use to move/reload/etc with.

I can't sit through another FPS using the most inferior control method again; so if there's nothing to be done, I'll take this game back and get something else.
 
Does it work well? Has anyone used it before?

I'm hesitant to go buy a $50 controller for a single game, when the only other FPS I'd play on PS3 would be resistance 3. I'm also losing interest in the game pretty fast, so this might be a moot discussion.
 
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As far as I know, the only game that's keyboard/mouse compatible on PS3 was UT3. Not sure about anything else.
 
Don't have one myself but it's supposedly very awesome.

Also Resistance 2 campaign is great but the game shines mostly in multiplayer modes. I'd imagine the fragfx would give you a pretty nice edge in competitive, and something of a boost for special ops class in co-op. I'm so used to the controller myself(and don't have a flat surface in front of me to use a mouse) that I never bothered, but it's the best controller setup I can think of as far as the ease of a controller's tightened button structure mixed with the accuracy and speed of a mouse.
 
When I was lookin' for a Frag FX I ran into a lot of people who didn't like what they had. Apparently the mouse is still governed by a thumbstick. It doesn't move as smooth nor as quick as a normal mouse would. I dunno how it all goes down, but from what I read the Frag FX mouse doesn't equal a mouse in any other way than its look.

What the hell happened to the "You can hook a USB keyboard and mouse up to the PS3 and play games!" back in the day ? Looks like that shit just ain't so for enough games to say that.
 
Well it's a mouse taking a stick's place, the advantage being a greater precision and more normal style for a PC gamer. There's not much more you can ask for except the ease of UT3, allowing any kb/m. If the game itself is programmed funny and mouse mapping is akward the fragfx isn't at fault. It's just remapping, I do it with my usb 360 controller on my PC to play games, no surface for mouse. The controller can't change the underlying control tho.

Mostly hear very positive things... but was a while ago maybe new games are funny.
 
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Well it's a mouse taking a stick's place, the advantage being a greater precision and more normal style for a PC gamer. There's not much more you can ask for except the ease of UT3, allowing any kb/m. If the game itself is programmed funny and mouse mapping is akward the fragfx isn't at fault. It's just remapping, I do it with my usb 360 controller on my PC to play games, no surface for mouse. The controller can't change the underlying control tho.

Mostly hear very positive things... but was a while ago maybe new games are funny.
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The consensus is pretty much everything blows with it except CoD4, which, apparently it's specially tailored for Frag FX in some way. It's all hear-say on my end though.

By the way Baj, what KB & Mouse did you find that actually works on a system (360) with no KB & Mouse support?
 
I'm gonna assume he uses an adapter, which just maps controller functions out to kb/m input, same as fragfx. Figured out the issue people were having there is mouse and auto aim combo sucks and many games autoaim(including R2).
 
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The consensus is pretty much everything blows with it except CoD4, which, apparently it's specially tailored for Frag FX in some way. It's all hear-say on my end though.

By the way Baj, what KB & Mouse did you find that actually works on a system (360) with no KB & Mouse support?
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It was a cheapo logitech wireless keyboard/mouse combo I bought back when I was going to build a media PC. I don't see a model number on any of them.
 
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It was a cheapo logitech wireless keyboard/mouse combo I bought back when I was going to build a media PC. I don't see a model number on any of them.
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Just plugged 'em straight in, no adapter or anythin'?
 
There's the wireless transmitter/receiver that's plugged into the 360, but other than that, nothing else.
 
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