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Playing The Escape

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the cue-howard-shore-music dept.

erich666 writes "Wired reports on 'La Fuga' (The Escape), a real-world game. You overcome physical and mental challenges to escape a prison. Not just any live-action role playing game, this one is run in a $20 million facility in Madrid. A networked PDA and RFID tag keep you in touch while you play. The company is now building a 30,000-square-foot game center at 49th and Broadway in New York City." From the article: "The screen goes static and then switches to a view of a sweaty prisoner with a 5 o'clock shadow who tells me that I can liberate myself and all the other drones stuck in the prison. Those who have escaped before me will contact me to assist in my quest. The door opens, and I enter a sort of closet before another door opens to reveal a metal air duct. I try to step in, but I slip, fall hard on my ass, and slide down the chute into a room containing a baggage carousel surrounded by screens."

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  1. Not the first, but nonetheless impressive! by hethatishere · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Interactive experiences for adults have been around for awhile and aren't anything new, and have been popular in several cities for a long time [5-wits.com], for example. This one sounds pretty damn cool and seems really reminiscent of those awful (but curious) Cube movie they play constantly on the Sci-Fi channel. I've gotten used to the fact that when anything comes to NYC, even if it's not new it automatically becomes newsworthy. Hopefully, it will get more people going to these places and build up more of an industry for something that is really just on the cusp of becoming popular. Lord knows, we could use more interactive (read: physical) forms of entertainment in this country.

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  2. Re:So then Version 2.0 is... by bsytko · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, last seasons loosers

  3. Re:Any allusions to the Prisoner? by mOdQuArK! · · Score: 2, Insightful
    The idea of a prisoner incarcerated because he knows too much sensitive government information may not be too fictional today.

    Dunno, doesn't sound very practical for a ruthless government. It'd be a whole lot safer, easier & more efficient to kill such a person & "disappear" the body.

    The Prisoner story makes a lot more sense if you need something special from that prisoner, or for them to do something special.

  4. Re:We need a real life game like this! by SpasticWeasel · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That is a complete load of shit

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  5. Re:We need a real life game like this! by bcmm · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Obvious fake. You can't put someone in a trance that easily, and it's not very legal to abduct an unwilling participant like that, especially without first checking if he has any kind of cardiac or neurological disorder. Sorry.

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