ZAM was invited to a behind-the-scenes look at Razer's upcoming product line up for 2010 while at CES 2010. What should you expect to see? Keep reading to find out!

Next on our agenda in the Razer suite was another preliminary piece of machinery known as the Razer Onza, a freshly designed Xbox controller with a variety of new quirks that will have professional and hardcore gamers drooling. The Onza has rather stylish lines and a color scheme more akin to the Xbox controllers of the past.

That said, the Razer controller is anything but ancient tech. Along with their trademarked “Hyperresponse” technology, Razer has added an additional multi-functional button, on the top of the controller, that can act as any of the buttons on the controller using an inventive locking slider on the back of the controller. Additionally, the control stick tension can be adjusted to meet the needs of whatever kind of gamer is using it. If you like looser control sticks, you won’t have to play with your controller for months just to get the right feeling out of your gamepad.

Reading the specs on paper is different than actually feeling the controller in your hands, however, and I can say that my initial reaction to the Razer Onza was positive, especially concerning the extra multi-function button on the top of the pad. I’ve never been a huge fan of pressing down on the control stick to elicit an action – like zooming in on a sniper rifle – and the Onza has taken care of this issue with a simple addition of another button. While I wasn’t as concerned about the tension on my control sticks – I’m not a “hardcore” gamer in that regard and often play with new/different controllers – they certainly work when adjusted and can be tightened so that even those of us with the thickest, most muscular thumbs could feel a bit of pushback.