I went paintballing today with a few friends, and found that it wasn’t as good as people said it was. We went to a place called ‘Go Ballistic’ in Elland (they have an informative website), which was conveniently close to home. We went for the morning, from ten till half twelve. One of the main problems with it was that it was so expensive! It cost well over £30 for the morning.

Although the actual running around shooting part was pretty good fun, there were quite a few flaws :). The masks were really cheap, and steamed up regularly. Three guns I tried at various parts of the morning had problems with them. One of my mates was thrown out for the morning because he tried to adjust his mask in a ‘live’ area - althought it was slightly his fault, they could have at least given him his money back.

Another pain was that although the paintball area had lots of different scenes and scenarios (e.g a huge fort, a burned out tank etc) but we didn’t get to use any of them. They kept us on these two basic setups, even though we’d been there for three hours. Let’s just say it really isn’t something I’ll be doing again in a hurry. Especially if I can’t get a discount!!