Introduction

I would like to thank Zykon for supplying the review sample.

Zykon is a new company, with a small, but very interesting product line-up. You will find mice and mouse pads as well as headset geared at gamers. The company also sells power supplies and headset for the same user group. The most interesting aspect are the pink products, aimed at female gamers.

Their website lists the company motto: ZYKON GAMEWARE - pleasure up your game

This is followed by:

ZYKON is a new brand but guarantees quality and highest gaming performance from the very first beginning. Our goal is to create professional GAMEWARE from gamers for gamers. Therefore we develope our products by professional gamers all over the world. We continuously strive to better ourselves, and work with leading professional gamers to make this come true. Check page for coming updates and new hardware.

We have the pleasure of reviewing their largest mouse pad, the Zykon MP3.

Features from the manufacturer:

• The P3 Mouse-Pad disposes of a definitely non-skid nature rubber-bottom, covered with a textile surface.
• The P3 is suitable an Allrounder, to symmetries for laser and optical mice.
• The P3 is suitable for all games and use particularly for beginner recommended.
• The bottom of the P3 is definitely non-skid.
• The oversizing offers enough place (square) for every hot match.
• Size (H×W): 380mm × 450mm

Packaging

The Zykon P3 ships in a large plastic tube. This is quite the usual package for such a large cloth pad.

A Closer Look

Simply open the top of the tube and pull out the pad. The first thing noticable besides the weight is its thickness. Zykon opted for the very widespread, soft format for their P3 mouse pad. It is completely void of any fancy images, except for the company logo on the right corner of the pad. Other firms place names or even the URL to their website in this location as well, but Zykon has chosen not to do so. This may make it hard for your neighbour at a LAN party to figure out who actually makes the P3. The Zykon logo is applied to the pad and not printed on the cloth surface. You can feel the difference, which may become a problem if you ever end up in that corner with your mouse. Luckily that is not something that will happen very often.


Placing the mouse pad with its underside facing up is possible, but as you can see, it still rolls up a bit on the edges. This should diminish after a few longer gaming sessions. The anti-skid bottom has a profile similar to that of car tires. You will not have to worry about the P3 moving around while in a fierce fire fight, simply because it is so large and heavy. The textured underside does the rest to keep it in place.