I’m not about to suggest that anyone should do mouse/keyboard gaming with anything less than a proper mouse, but in a few cases where I’ve been without a proper mouse, the trackpoint has been indisputably better than a trackpad for gaming. It’s not even close. Mouselook via a trackpoint is basically joystick control and it works pretty much exactly how you’d expect. A trackpad is just chaos mode and probably constitutes a war crime if you’re forcing someone else to do it.