General Use
Straight out of the box, the mouse is easy to use thanks to its plug'n'play attributes with the mouse being detected and usable in a Windows environment without the need to download the CM Storm software. We would however strongly suggest downloading the software which is available on the CM Strom website to get the most from the Recon.

In general office duties the mouse was a pleasure to use. The sensitive side buttons were a slight irritation though as in default mode these acted as navigation so posting on forums meant sometimes a post was lost mid-edit due to navigating away from a page. We were unsure whether this was designed to be like this or conversely, a fault in the design. Some may like the ease of access and if you have average size hands, thereby utilising the palm grip design you shouldn't have an issue. The length of the mouse however dictated my hand was further back from the mouse and thus more prone to hitting the side buttons! This was however easily rectified both by lowering the sensitivity of the buttons and for me personally, disabling the offending button due to my XL hands! After a while I did begin to feel the effects of using the Recon with my wrist beginning to ache. This was more to do with the size of the mouse than any major design fault. People with small/medium size hands shouldn't have an issue as the palm can easily be cradled on the mouse but mine was over the back of the rump which meant my wrist was at a slight angle causing minor RSI. For the most part though, general navigation and photoshop duties were very good with the mouse being both accurate and slick in use.



Gaming
Being a gaming mouse primarily, the CM Storm Recon performed exactly as it should and those sensitive buttons now came into their own. While they are a burden in general day to day work, they were ultra responsive and coupled with the gorgeous Omron switches of the main two mouse buttons, the Recon soon became second nature in use. We liked the dpi switching capability with the recessed buttons requiring deliberate activations. The mouse wheel was in the 'Goldilocks' zone - not to soft/not too stiff and the perfectly positioned side buttons ensured that reactions were quick without having to think about which button to press. Again, I found the mouse to be a little on the small side and to get the speed I wanted I found myself reverting to a claw grip rather than palm which is not what the mouse is designed for. This only served to increase the amount of inadvertent side button clicks.

So, while personally this mouse (more because of its small size than anything else) is not suited to my hands, we can envisage other users may find it a joy to use. It is clearly aimed at gamers and while it is perfectly capable in general day to day tasks, shooting down foes is more it's bag than sending emails.

The Skorpion performed well as expected. It did it's job pretty much perfectly. If we had one criticism though it would be that the bungee was a little too stiff. We would have preferred a little more flexibility in the rubber as the tension was very noticeable when the mouse cable was at it's extremities of length. A little fine tuning is all that is required to rectify this situation but were the bungee a little more pliable and the grip less tight on the cable, the Skorpion would be unnoticeable in use which after all, is the basis for its creation.