Two-minute review
The Razer Basilisk V3 is a game mouse designed to give its users a wide range of personalization options, which is inspired by one of the best game mice currently in the market, the Logitech G502 hero. This is not shaded, since both mice are easily distinguished, but Razer has made some great improvements in the previous offer of Basilisk V2 and Logitech.
You can buy Razer Basilisk V3 from $ 69.99 / £ 69.99 / Around AU $ 130, which makes it cheaper than its predecessor, Basilisk V2, with a RRP of $ 79.99 / £ 79.99 / $ 154.95.
The first difference that will notice between the second and third generation of this mouse is that it was still more razer chroma RGB, adding a low lighting strip that illuminates its mouse pad and synchronizes with its other Razer RGB peripherals through SINAPSE . You can even set this lighting to synchronize with audio thanks to the Chroma visualizer, or react with Chroma-integrated games such as Apex Legends or Fortnite.
Pretty lighting does not improve performance, but it is better similar and more polished, and if you are not a fan, then you can simply turn it off.
In fact, turning off those striking lights makes this a slightly more appropriate mouse to take the office if you do not work from your home, and there are great benefits of productivity to do so. An important feature of the Razer Basilisk V3 is your tilt hyperspoed scroll wheel, allowing you to switch between standard ‘tactile’ scroll movement and a free rotation mode to quickly move through web pages or spreadsheets.
It also has the option to change manually between the two, or enable the ‘Smart-Reel’ mode through Razer Synapse that will detect when it moves excessively and automatically, move between the tactile and free mode, depending on your activity.
We were skeptical, but it works better than expected, which allows you to have normal scrolling functions for most tasks and then scroll quickly up or down when you see a website like Twitter. It can be a little sensitive, so it’splaying in the configuration, but soon we got the blocking using the Smart-Reel function without using web pages at a high speed accidentally.
You can let the wheel turn down, or if you need to stop it, simply turn in the opposite direction and you will hear a click that indicates that it is reversed again to a manual scroll, almost similar to a car.
The scroll wheel can also be tilted from left to right, providing two additional ‘buttons’ that you can use to move through a page. This was a real asset when dealing with large spreadsheets, and you can assign them to any key that you feel like it during games that can help with the titles that have displaced the menu selections for things like weapons or consumables.
There are 11 buttons in total, one is located at the bottom of the mouse to change between different profiles that can be saved in the mouse. There are five slots for the available profiles, so you can save a matrix of different keys for several games or genres.
You are also getting two buttons under the scroll wheel (one is configured to switch between the scroll modes by default, but can be reassigned), the left and right standard button and three buttons located on the left side of the mouse , including a multifunctional trigger.
This trigger is very satisfactory to click, and serves as a standard macro button, or can be used to activate Razer hypershift, allowing you to exchange between two different sets of controls, effectively duplicating the number of shares at your disposal .