February 15, 2012 4:15 pm

‘Lazer Tag’ is reborn as, you guessed it, an iOS game

Matt Hawkins Contributing Writer, Video Games

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Yet it still includes plastic pistols. Plastic pistol attachments for your iPhone or iPod Touch to be exact. And no, not the ones from before, these ones are entirely different.

Behold Lazer Tag, 2012 edition…

From Hasbro’s description of the game (no screenshots exist), it’s exactly what one might guess: an augmented reality type game in which the iOS device acts as an HUD. Up to 24 players are supported, which sounds cool. Until one realizes that 24 grown adults will have to fork over $39.99 for each one (that’s ten bucks more than the previous model). Hey, at least the app itself will be free.

At least it looks more like a toy than a sawed off shotgun, which was one major beef with the Xappr. In the end, this new version of Lazer Tag could either seriously rock or seriously suck, depending on how feature right the actual pieces of plastic you above truly are.

You see, what made the original so awesome to some, and annoying to others, is all the flashing lights and noises the games made. If these iOS device caddies can do the same, now we’re talking. But if one has to rely completely upon the display to monitor progress and the such, well, you basically have the same problem that I outlined with Xappr. As in, you won’t be able to see what the hell is going on if the device is swing all around, since it part of something that you’re supposed to handle like a gun.

But given the premium price of the guns themselves, and the lack of any for the app, leads one to believe that there will be lights and noises involved. Great job for some, not so much for others. It all comes out, later this year, in August.