Adam Cohen

Review of Combat Zone Paintball Las Vega...

The weakest part of our entire trip.

The weakest part of our entire trip.

Apart from the general hokey-ness of it all (hammy acting by people who occasionally look to want to be anywhere but here), the experience was SERIOUSLY underwhelming, and at the end rather infuriating.

The paintball guns you are given are super-cheap models that were probably bought on bulk discount at Walmart, and frequently misfire. On only 1 out of 4 stages did my marker even work, every other time either failing to fire the paintball with any pressure, or just being unloaded (you are not allowed to load your own, and the staff seem very overworked trying to manhandle you through the course).

The insult-to-injury part of it was the very end. To get "realism" out of it, the zombies do get up in your face if you don't shoot them (they need to feel the impact to "die"); which I couldn't, since my markers never worked. Eventually, in the last stage, one of them ran up and pushed me into a metal pole tent pole with a bolt sticking out, giving me a nasty cut on my side and ripping my shirt. We didn't even bother complaining about it as we were heading to a strip club afterwards and just wanted to get on with the night.

Steer clear of this place. It is very low-rent, and you feel every painful (literally and figuratively) second of its low budget.