Getting Crazy Competitive at Motion Entertainment

An intense game with zombies

3D glasses on, seat-belted into our seats, and guns in hand, we are ready to kill those damn zombies! The curtains close behind us so the space goes dark. We only have eyes for the huge curved screen in-front of us.

After a practice round, we are in the thick of it. Our seats move and shake vigorously with the vibrations of the car we are in as we crash into trees, fall from high buildings, and start to get mauled by zombies. Not only are we shooting to save our lives, but we’re also shooting for points so things get a little competitive, if we weren’t already totally immersed in this experience.

The mission comes to an end with a photo of Laura looking way too serious popping up on screen under the heading: “1st”. Robin is having none of it, and we sit in for another mission – this time, Werewolves. Indeed, Robin redeems himself.

Escaping the zombie apocalypse

Next on the agenda is something we have been dying to try: Escape Masters. The concept is simple; try to escape a room. But the game is not so simple with heaps of puzzles to solve and mysteries to unravel. It’s a real life escape game.

Although there are four different themed rooms to escape from, we go with what is available at the time: Zombies! (We see a bit of a theme occurring here). After choosing a medium difficulty for our first escape room experience, we walk into a bedroom the Zombie Killer Professor – our last hope to survive the zombie apocalypse. We have one hour to escape the room and save humanity!

The Lumberjax Mini Golf gets all dark and serious at hole 3

Becoming Escape Masters!

The door closes, the timer starts, and the game is on. It’s a game where almost everything means something. There are padlocked boxes to open, puzzles that you don’t even realise they are puzzles until the clock has ticked away for longer than you would have liked. Just when we figure out how to open a hidden doorway, there is one more padlock combination to solve!

With only five minutes left on the timer, we finally escape back into the Motion Entertainment complex. YES! After being excited, frustrated, puzzled, reinvigorated, confused, enlightened, and all sorts of emotions, there’s nothing that beats the feeling of finally solving the game.

Laser tag with the office party

Now that our brains have totally been fried, we move onto something a bit more mindless: shooting people at the Megazone Laser Tag Game. We are put into a game with what seems to be an office outing with a bunch of self-respecting adults wearing shirts, ties, skirts and whatever else. But all respect is lost for them once they put on those laser jackets and they become our target.

We enter a neon-painted room separated with various walls here, there and everywhere to hide behind. The design is simple yet effective with plenty of nooks and crannies to snipe from. Throughout the 15-minute mission, everyone gets a giddier and more competitive. It’s simple but super fun, even if we did get annihilated by the office party…