Looking
for something different in the means of entertainment? Then have we found the
place for you. Where your skills are tested and your friendship/relationship
tried, to really see how well you work together or in a group.
For
me it was Matt and I trapped and handcuffed together trying to escape, but for
you it may be a different scenario.
Exitus
invited us along to their place in Port Melbourne, to try out something new and
fun.
WHAT
IS EXITUS?
Exitus
is a real life escape the room experience that is unlike any other form of
entertainment in the market. It is the latest team building & entertainment
craze sweeping the globe across Asia, United States and Europe. We are proud to
be the first and largest dedicated centre in Australia. The first Exitus venue
is located in Port Melbourne with more venues coming soon to Melbourne and
other Australian cities
Exitus
Port Melbourne offer 5 different games with all different scenarios. The five
different games are:
Prison
Break
Casino
Heist
Entombed
Apollo
Mission and
CSI
Melbourne
PRISON
BREAK
The
game we decided we would try and crack was Prison Break: It is not always
innocent until proven guilty these days. You and your friends have been
imprisoned for life and for a crime you didn't commit no less! With all the
odds stacked against you and no chance for parole, there is only one way you
will ever regain your freedom... Escape the prison!
It says on the website you are blindfolded but we
weren’t blindfolded, glad we weren’t as well as it would have been super
difficult. But I think they should
update this as it could become slightly misleading. We were however handcuffed together
with a piece of chain that left about 40cms between us and saw us getting
tangled a few times.
I don't want to go into too much detail and give too much away as this might be a little dampener on your experience, so it is something you will have to see and do for yourself.
You are able to get hints throughout the game by
pressing the hint button in the cell, but are limited in how many times you can
use it- we used it twice. An employee comes in and helps to better explain a
hint or the next step to escape.
With 3 minutes and 20 seconds remaining we knew we
couldn’t crack it and allowed ourselves to take in what we had achieved and let
our brains relax as they were in overdrive. ( I won't tell you why we couldn't figure it out, but this would have had to have been the hardest part of the game and don't think we could have completed it anyway).
It is fair to say my other half and I would never be able to escape from a jail!
It is fair to say my other half and I would never be able to escape from a jail!
CHANGES I WOULD LOVE TO SEE
If there was one thing I would have like to have seen
in this room- I am unsure if the other rooms are the same is some more sound
and lighting effects. For example the sounds of sirens would have been great to
give it a feel once you escape from the cell as this is what will usually
happen while in jail. It would have also been good to have a few little teaser
voice overs telling you to hurry up or how much time you had remaining.
Also with lighting it would have been awesome to have
flickering lights or siren effects to give you the feel of escaping from jail,
rather then seeing all the marks and things on the wall that had been left from
the many previous people before us.
PRICE
The price to have this 45 minute experience is $38 per
person, which if you have a larger group of people could be loads of fun.
NEW RICHMOND STORE
I hope to see new scenarios at Richmond, which is set
to open soon. But these are great and with a selection that is sure to tickle
one of your fancies- for us it was either CSI Melbourne or Prison Break and in
the end rock, paper, scissors ended in the favour of Prison Break.
WHERE
Exitus Port Melbourne is obvisouly in Port Melbourne
but more pacifically their address is:
23 Salmon St, Port Melbourne VIC 3207
