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.