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If you're after some measure of whether Laser League - the all-new future sports game from OlliOlli developer roll7 - is any good, then consider this. Promotional banners are being furled up and packed away at a preview being event held in a windowless sticky-floored east London sports bar where the toilets have no lights, it's impossibly hot and I should have left for home two hours ago. I can't tear myself away, though, and neither can the other five strangers squeezed into two sweat-sodden sofas, because things are getting serious. It's one game apiece between our two teams of three, and we head into the decider with our heads full of potential new tactics, new strategies and new ways to play; the next few minutes whir past in a blaze of colour and a chorus of screams as plans are quickly hatched and just as quickly fall apart, and just as victory is grasped at the very last a brief lull descends.
And then we turn to one another and say let's do that again.
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