Anyone who enjoys playing racing sims/games knows how frustrating it can be to try to control one's virtual car with a gamepad; or worse, a keyboard. Turns are difficult to control because of a lacking sense of how sharp to make them and remembering which of the buttons on the pad, or keyboard, control what can suck any fun right out of a game. And while kids, who have never actually driven a car, might come to accept this means of controlling a car as normal, those of us who actually drive find it contradicts everything we've come to learn about driving.

This is where steering wheel controllers come in, offering a more familiar and intuitive means of controlling the action of a driving game, with a steering wheel used for directional control and pedals for the brakes and gas. But these things come at a cost, particularly since these controllers can only be used for racing games, and so must be in addition to, not instead of, other game controllers. And so those of us who already have gamepads and flight sticks need to be convinced that having a good wheel is worth dropping down even more of our hard earned cash.

Well today, we take a look a look at two such controllers from the folks at Logitech, one for the PC and one for the Playstation 2 to find out if they give enough bang to justify the buck. Let's start with Logitech's Wingman Formula GP, their latest value PC racing wheel and then take a look at the Logitech GT Force for Gran Turismo 3 A-spec, their official PS2 force-feedback wheel for that game.