Haven't found anything similar to this game. Played it back in the day with a force feedback stick and when you fought an ogre you could feel the resistance of the ogre's swing in the controller. But yes, controls are a little difficult to learn.. but VSIM is the way to go and I would suggest a flight stick to use with VSIM. The hat moves your character forward, backward, left and right and then you are free to master swinging your sword in any arc with the movement of the stick while using the hat to position your shield to protect your body while fighting your foes with the main quest. The ULTIMATE to this game was playing 4 play OGRE HOCKEY in the Limb for Limb add-on and trying to knock the kobold puck in to the opponents goal while keep the opposition from tearing your limbs off or worse. Can't find any stick that compares to the original Microsoft force feed back stick but works really well with this Logitech Extreme 3D pro I picked up at MicroCenter for 30 bucks! Now.. just to remember how to program the swings and save the moves so you can just hit a button is my next step! GREAT game though if you take the time to learn. Sad the Kinect, Wii or Playstation's lame move controllers haven't come up with something better than this game by far (was hoping the Star Wars on Kinect would've been good but poorly implemented compared to this game).