Sudden Combat

A for the idea — realistic weapons and environment — but C– for execution:
First, the technology isn’t quite there. In our group of five, one of the weapons didn’t operate at all during our first game. Even after we fixed the inoperative weapon, I observed frequent simultaneous kills and erratic performance from all of the weapons throughout the two games.
Second, the respawning idea and weapons reloading are good ideas, but were poorly executed. The respawn devices weren’t charged, so the staff member controlling the game had to manually respawning us. He wasn’t paying attention part of the time, so it was hard for all five of us to anticipate when we might respawn. Similarly, reloading weapons was frustrating. We had no way of knowing when we ran out of ammo, and reloading required that we return to the staff member controlling the game. The way that respawning and reloading were handled during our two sessions were very disruptive to game play.
Third, the arena (‘Charlie’) was small — about a quarter of the size of most laser tag arenas I have seen. By the second match, game play was pretty boring.
Lastly, it appeared to me the staff member who was supervising our game was not fully trained on how to run the game. It took him 15 minutes to get the game set up for play. The staff member running our game didn’t figure out the respawn points were not working until after we had started. He struggled with troubleshooting the equipment, and he forgot to realign our teams the second game, something we only figured out part way through the game.
We went in with high expectations, and most of us were disappointed.

Guns were great but unreliable. My gun failed to shoot twice requiring replacement. The CO2 didn’t last for an entire mag of bullets (120). There’s no color vest and facial recognition is almost impossible in the dark. The vests didn’t register very well. I had a lot more fun than regular laser tag but it wasn’t as good as I thought it would be. We did not do the rounder ball.

Very bad experience. used groupon to go there with my and my friends kids. The employees were rude to the kids. one even shouted at them. very disinterested bunch. did not do a decent job setting the game. and whole game was less than 15 minutes. will never go there.

AMAZING, AWESOME, COOL place to Play Lazier Tag for sure!!! 2 Buddies and I went. It was our team of 3, Against a Team of 4, & us 2 teams against a team of 5. It was cool. Guns look real, reloading, set up was sweet, they opened up another room for us all! So to rooms means more space, $ 10 per game, it was totally worth it!!! Thank you so much Sudden Combat, we all had a great time. 100%, A+

This place is amazing! The laser tag is so realistic. You can pay two more bucks to have your gun sound like a real gun, and the guns are heavy. The place is almost like a realistic battle. It is pretty fun to play here, and it is not tiring to play here because the place is realistic, the place has three laser tag maps, one paintball map. They have paintball here, but they have only one room, and I have never done it before. This place though is sometimes empty or no one is here except the employees. At times like this, it should be known that coming with friends is a very, very good idea. It is so realistic because you have lives, you have to reload and get more ammo, and you can snipe or use rounds. It is a new experience, and it is very modern. On the downside, the lobby is pretty dirty. But everything else makes it worth coming here for laser tag. Thanks for reading!

I went to sudden combat for the first time today and had the best lasertag experience I’ve ever had! I also tried their reball. Some criticism for the reball. For one when we went there was nobody playing so it was 1v1 with my friend which was fine with me. 1 mission is broken up into 4 games each lasting about 4 – 5 minutes, CONSIDERING you don’t run out of ammo, the hopper holds MAYBE 50 balls which go by really fast and I was just playing 1v1 couldn’t imagine it with more people. In addition their guns were laughably inaccurate which I accept to a degree but this was odd. And the arena was very narrow when the lasertag had two story ceilings that was essentially wasted space.
The lasertag is a step up from the everyday lasertag at the mall. One problem with the system was that you could go head on with someone and up to a half of a second trigger pull on them and they still be able to kill you to do to system lag which isn’t a big deal just a little irritating. The Guns were better in construction and operation. One gripe is they have full sized carbine length rifles which (coming from an ar15 owner) are very annoying to negotiate through the tight spaces at the arenas. I would suggest a smaller platform or at least a shorter barrel. They have a device that forces you to go back to spawn to «revive» you so as to prevent cheating. You don’t have nearly as many little kids following you killing you soon as you come back to life. However the door between alpha and Charlie maps promotes a stalemate of camping.
The staff was kind and knowledgeable and answered any questions we had. ⁵⁄₅ for staff.
Would definitely return and my grievances are small and overall did not retract from the experience.

This place has a terrific concept and an excellently realistic layout! It’s truly a «grown-​up» version of laser tag. The concerns are that it is expensive, the staff seemed stressed and not prepared for our group reservation, and we had a number of system/​technology concerns (firearms did not work properly, other equipment malfunctions) and again, it’s expensive. This place is awesome through it’s potential, although currently it needs improvement.

Terrible service. Waited 40 minutes to play. Found the the staff talking in the office after finding out they forgot about us. Place was not even busy I don’t know how they can handle a busy party service.

This place is awesome. Be prepared to sweat. People of all ages will have fun. The guns they use look real. I only wished that the rooms were a bit bigger so that we could run around more.

First and foremost who doesn’t like laser tag.
The staff was friendly and courteous. They were nice to deal with our group of «adult children.» They were quick to crack jokes and we all felt at ease. Which is super cool because no one was in the mood for anything pretentious.
Okay now let’s get down to the fun stuff the weapons! Well The weapons are modeled after guns. The best in the Pats are actually surprisingly the light. Some of us were looking for something that a real feel and wanted more weight. But for children or anyone who doesn’t feel like the feel of around a bunch of extra weight, the pads here and best are perfect. They’re very easy to move around in.
So if you’ve been bored from sitting in the office all day come take some stress out and get your self some confirmed kills!

My son and I attended a birthday party held by someone else at this place. They did the laser version of play. There were pros and cons.
It’s obviously a new place, and in a little industrial park area. The building and inside are clean and new, with a nice waiting area with TV and couches for parents, three big party areas that are open on one end for parties. It was a little loud when there were two parties going on at the same time and everyone was out in the main area, not playing, but it’s a party.
Zoned the way it is, there’s not as much parking as they probably need, but given that you are usually there on weekends and evenings, there are enough spaces open all the way along the industrial park area.
The checkin process lacked flow. You have to go to some computer kiosks to enter lots of information, including your driver’s license number (? why) and then sign a waiver that absolves them of all responsibility and gives them an absolute and permanent right to use any images or video captured of you in their promotional and advertising literature. I didn’t like this but there wasn’t any option to opt out.
Speaking of video, they do have nice big screen tvs in the party areas to watch the kids on the course when they’re in there. The resolution is good and the picture is cool to watch, much better than the other places I’ve seen.
The guns were heavy. The kids’ arms were tired holding them if they were in there for the whole game. It seems like they went for more realistic rather than more fun. In my mind, it’s laser tag not special ops, so some lighter guns would seem more practical. More on the guns in a moment.
The first game they played was single elimination and most of the kids were out quickly and had to sit for a pretty long while it seemed. This doesn’t seem like the kind of game to lead with for 8 –10 yr olds at a birthday party.
The staff was nice and friendly, offered tours of the courses in between getting the guns all set up. The courses were interesting, built mostly of boxes spray painted and covered with tarps or camo netting. It made for an interesting course look, but seemed less professionally built maybe than other places. On the plus side, it would be easy to change and keep fresh over time, so that may have been what they were going for. There were more permanent obstacles in some of the rooms that were cool.
The party ran really really long. Not sure what the hold ups all were, but there was a lot of outfitting and it didn’t really run totally smoothly, though they got through it at the end.
Maybe my biggest con about the place is the focus on guns, guns, guns. I get that it’s laser tag and paintball, and you use a gun to do those things, but I think sudden combat’s take is to make this seem as much like actually shooting people with a real gun as possible, rather than having a fun time playing a strategy combat game. Armed forces use much more realistic combat training so that the people involved are able to function effectively with real weapons while in the actual field of battle. Suburban children do not need to get used to the heft and recoil characteristics of an M4 assault rifle. All of the decorations in the store are either gun-​based video game posters advertising and promoting video games which all have an M rating (unsuitable for minor children, most of whom are Sudden Combat’s party customers) or are promoting Second Amendment protection, the NRA and the Tea Party. Personally speaking, I don’t believe, as one of their posters proclaims, that the Second Amendment is the one that enables all the other rights to exist. I don’t believe that every American should own and carry any type of gun they wish. I don’t believe that we should be promoting and glorifying gun ownership, gun carrying, gun use and realistic gun mastery in our 8 to 10 year olds. This isn’t a violation of the second amendment, it’s just practicality. Guns are like venemous snakes. You CAN keep them in your house safely for many years without an incident, but if your children, guests or you are careless, they can easily kill you, just because you have them around.
Although it was a fun afternoon, I will not return. I don’t think the message promoted by the business is appropriate for my kids, and it’s not consistent with my values. i always encourage businesses to really think strongly about the message you convey with your wall decorations and services. There’s a strong likelihood that a lot of Sudden Combat’s customers agree with their obvious pro-​gun and pro-​Tea Party propaganda, but there are some who do not, and who will not come back based on having Tea Party flags and slogans on the walls. The owners certainly have the right to express their views, they just have to live with the commercial consequences to their business of some of us deciding not to spend our money there because of it. A business provides a service and ought to be offered to the public free of political opinion.

The customer service was great, every person working there was friendly and knew what they were doing. The re-​ball indoor field was great with airbags and turf as it should be other than there is no paint, which actually was fine. Pretty much exactly speedball but the paintballs are solid, but feel the same when getting hit or shooting. The lasertag was the best Ive seen with rifle replicas. I never write reviews but I felt this place deserved a good one

laser tag…
this is the place to play realistic style laser tag. an indoor modern warfare style type of laser tag way diffrent from the outerspace style we are so used too. so much fun. handguns for adults if the want them and m4’s/ ar15 style rifles for everlyone else. wow full auto laser tag. there is an option for like 2.00 (to cover cost of co2 cartiriges) to have your gun recoil realisticly. this place is fun for any ages. practice your skills or just have fun. diffrent maps or arenas with diffrent theams like a middle easter village and and urban city and a obsiticle type field with upper areas and many corners.
the multi arenas and fields are realistic and even have a real truck inside as a prop.
paint ball /​reball
(diffrent from laser tag and in a differnt area)
there is a field above the lower fields that is not laser tag and is a differnt sport and is much like paint ball without the splat. i found it very fun as well but it is too hard hitting for small children and others due to welts from being hit not on the body armor you wear. suggest jeans and layered clothes like sweat shirts for protection for those not wanting welts. unfortunatly i went in shorts and shurged it off and got a few on my legs and one is still there few months later. but i would still do it again way fun just would wear more clothes.

Oh men, best place for laser tag!!! Great service, nice facility and very nice environment. My son and niece loved it so much. that they wanna go there every weekend. Looking forward to go there tonight. I wish they had like a members club or something like to accumulate points by the visits you go. See you guys tonight :)

My boys had a blast, their prices are very reasonable, and the staff is very friendly.
The vests are very light, but their weapons are fashioned after the M-​4 and weigh about what the real thing weighs. My 70 lb 9 year old had no issues and he actually topped the leader board in kills.
My oldest had functional issues with his gun, so he ended up getting 2 free games and they gave my other son 2 free games since they were together. I didn’t find out about this until after the fact and I think that was wonderful customer service.
The arenas are pretty cool and my boys liked the fact that one of them had a truck in it.
We’ll be back.

My son and his friends had a great time. They can’t wait to go back gain.
The place was very clean and the staff friendly.

Awesome facility and very friendly staff. Very clean place for a good entertainment center! Step into a high-​tech, laser tag adventure where identity is limited only by imagination. Dodge lasers, and strategize with teammates as you compete for high scores and glory in this futuristic version of Capture the Flag. I went with a couple of buddies and we really enjoyed our time there. It is like no other laser tagging place you have ever been. The guns were very realistic, feels like the real thing, and the sound is awesome.

Technology not all the way there yet.
The tech on display is a step up from your standard laser tag (the gun is wireless) but I still encountered these problems:
1. Simultaneous kills. This is when you shoot someone and the lag between the vest and gun means he can still shoot back, leading to both of you dieing. This happens a lot and feels like the biggest thing holding it back from real game performance.
2. Anywhere respawn. I wanted to try this place out to get away from this type of play but it seems it is still the standard. This means you get the same thing as in ultrazone where some people will just stand around the center of the arena and tag you whenever their vest comes back online. Combined with the first problem means you can’t prevent this as even covering them with multiple people they can still come back to life and tag you all before they go down a second later.
The person running the game said to go back to base to respawn but that wasn’t true. They really need to make base respawn the standard in team deathmatch, or at least give a different color indicator for the last second where you still can’t shoot but can get tagged again.
3. The CO2 for recoil and shooting is cool but sometimes your gun will randomly be put into «black out» mode where it barely makes any sound or recoil, defeating the purpose and making it hard to tell if you are even shooting. It feels like electronics should have advanced to the point of providing better recoil and sound without the CO2.
4. Access to pistols or changeable magazines is restricted to private games I guess, their website doesn’t make that clear.
5. They haven’t setup a middle ground between private parties and walk-​ins. I assume you can customize private parties but they did not design their website to the point of match matching for more advanced game rules. If they want more traffic during slow times, help connect people together that want something more than just respawn anywhere deathmatch.
It was fun and almost worth it with a coupon but I don’t see myself going back for the laser tag unless they can let people organize and reserve non-​standard game modes.