Laser Tag Shootout as a Corporate Event

Laser Tag games are gaining popularity not just as themed birthday parties, but as a corporate team bonding or team building event.

The thought of “killing” someone may not be (or may be) common at your work place but at anergy laser shootout, we see colleagues “shooting” one another during our games all the time. Of course the idea of shooting someone should never be taken seriously but there are benefits to getting involved with a shootout programme.

Being a high energy event, the laser shootout programme will leave a lasting impression on the participants and they will be talking about it for weeks to come (we need to re-emphasise hat there will not be any paint marks or bruise marks from our laser tag games).

Laser Shootouts are fun, no questions about it. We’ve seen grown men behave like children once they lay their hands on our laser tag guns. Contrary to popular belief that only men will enjoy this game, we’ve done countless of almost all ladies groups and, they too, loved the game and are able to complete the missions. In fact, some female participants shoot better than the men!

Our laser tag games are also mobile. we are able to set up in a public park (most of the time) or if budget permits, we can set up in an indoor enviornment (like hall or ballroom) we just need some over turned tables and permission from the hotel. We can also bring in some other types of obstacles like carton boxes or inflatable obstacles.

The different missions will bring out the teams’ ability to plan, communicate, adapt and motivate one another to achieve the mission objectives. Our laser tag teambuilding programme will give participants a chance to exercise their leadership skills. They will need to leverage on the strengths of individual members and deploy them to maximise team effectiveness.

Our laser shootout programme can give participatns a good exercise. Some missions will require participants to push themselves a little to get the job done, others are more static like our texas shootout challenge. So depending on the fitness level of your group, we will be able to customise the missions to meet your needs.

Last but not least, it’s affordable. if we compare our laser shootout game with the more traditional paintball, where the price is tied to the number of rounds fired, we are much more affordable as our price is tied to time.

Do feel free to drop us an enquiry to find out more.

Why play shooting games - at all?

Some people ask us why do we want to paly with laser tag guns? Isn’t Singapore a peace loving country? We understand where they are coming from. To illustrate our point we can ask the same question about Boxing, or Wrestling or Rugby. Do they make people more violent? As the saying goes, one man’s meat is another man’s poison. People are all different and we have different preferences.

If dashing around with a toy gun, pointing it at your friend and trying to shoot them is not your cup of tea, we have nothing against it. In fact, we have a whole lot of other games that may appeal to you, just visit this page full of other team building games that we have been running.

What we have found out however, is that when we are not overly obsessed with the “shooting” part of a laser tag game, the game actually accomplishes many things. First of all, it bonds people together, it’s just like playing basket ball or soccer, when you try to outwit, out manoevour and out run the opponent as a team. It’s a team game.

Through the game, participants can also learn about working in teams, leading a group and relaying information to team members, looking out for one another, and motivation.

It doesn’t make us more violent, maybe just fitter ( if you play with us often enough) and have faster reflexes. A good example is our Singapore Army. We have been training soldiers for more than 40 years and we’ve not been in  a war with anyone. Learning martial arts also doesn’t make you more prone to fighting with people, in fact they teach us tolerance.

We must agree that there are other forms of exercises or training that can accomplish the above, our point is, so can laser shootout! and it is really fun, you’ll have to experience it for yourself to find out exactly how. It’s almost as if you are playing the character of a war hero fighting the war, your adrenaline pumps when you are hiding from your enemy or when you are stalking them.

At the end of it, there are winners and losers but nobody gets hurt.

Using Laser Shootout! and other outdoor games to fight obesity

For the longest time we have been trying to convince schools that the best way to fight obesity is to get the students to play games.

Think about this: if kids can grow fat because of lack of exercise as they spend more and more time infront of the computer either doing school work or playing games, the opposite could happen if they are constantly out of the house playing outdoor games like laser shootout!

Laser Shootout is a fairly physical game, depending on the mission that we paly, some of it may require participants to do a fair bit of sprinting, espeically if they are trying to dodge enemy does fire or to run to a high ground before the enemy. The laser tag equipment are also of realistic weight, at about 1.7 to 3 kg.

Typically when a child (or adult) plays 3 missions with us, the amount of calories burnt could be comparable to playing an hour of street soccer or basketball. The good thing is that they do not feel that they have to will thenselves to run a little longer or harder, beacuse it is such a fun game and because their team mates are out there depending on them, they will just run even if you feel a little tired.

Playing games also makes the session fun instead of stressful. Players can also progress slowly by taking up different roles in a team, if someone is not as fit initially, they can take on the defensive roles first and as their fitness level improves, they will be able to join their friends in the counter attack missions and flanking manoevours.

If you enjoy playing first person shooting games, or if you simply like sports or games that keeps your adrenaline pumping but you have not tried a game of laser shootout!, you do not know what you have been missing. What’s more, there is a promotion now on!