Thumb wheel and red button section: An additional thumbwheel for the left hand as well as a satisfying and mysterious programmable red button.screen section: A full-color digital display, three menu keys, and a media key set (volume, mute, mic mute) The macro section: four pinky-accessible macro keys that can also double as CTRL, shift, enter, and backspace.The numpad section: a full numpad, five macro keys, arrows, and the insert/home keyset.It has the normal QWERTY keyset, twelve function keys, and that’s it. The letter key section: This is your main keyboard piece.Then we have some different keycaps and a changing tool as well as a wrench for assembly of the separate components.Īnd finally, fully unboxed, we have the entire spread of all the components available with this package. The “Cyborg” branding has actually been superseded, and this keyboard is officially known as the Mad Catz STRIKE 7 now, just FYI. We here at Icrontic don’t normally go in for the unboxing stuff, but I think it bears mentioning here. After this review, you’ll have to decide whether or not you feel that the pricing is justified. This price range is not for the faint of heart. Let’s deal with the immediate pink elephant in the room: This keyboard is three hundred dollars, and it’s not mechanical. Either way, for the remainder of this review, I’m referring to the keyboard as the STRIKE 7. Also, I don’t know if it’s called the ‘Strike Seven’ or if they were going for a leet-speak “R” in there and trying to call it the ‘Striker’. Oh, and before I go on with this review, let it be known that the official name of the STRIKE 7 has the periods in it, but I’m not typing those again. I say that because I want it to be clear that the packaging alone for the Mad Catz S.T.R.I.K.E.7 gaming keyboard is the nicest packaging I’ve ever seen for a retail video game product.

Over a month ago I received a very, very sexy package from Mad Catz.

Mad catz strike te driver