NY1's Adam Balkin previews the "Battle Tag" and "Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4" games.

The latest real-world laser tag game is also a video game.

With “Battle Tag,” users can run around anywhere, as long as they are within 1,000 feet of the Ubiconnect sensor. The Ubiconnect forms its own kind of wireless network that tracks the weapons and the harnesses to determine who is winning and who is losing.

“The computer acts as a game master, so it tracks the score, allows you to know if you've been hit, [shows you] how much ammunition you've got [left on your weapon],” explains Gael Seydoux of Ubisoft. “And also it avoids people cheating, because you can't say, ‘I haven't been hit.’”

The game also uses radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. Players hide small boxes, which represent more health or more ammo, around the playing field, and when one is found, players hold it up to their weapon to become repacked with lasers or all healed up.

“Battle Tag” is due out this fall and is right now being created for the PC, though developers say they're considering making it work with pretty much any mobile device, as well. Price has not yet been
announced.

Meanwhile, the new Lego title takes a journey into the world of “Harry Potter.”

“Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4” has gamers reliving, in Lego fashion, the first four J.K. Rowling books – exploring and flying around what developers call the most-detailed Lego world built to date for a game.

Users get to play as the mini-fig Harry and actually pretty much any of the characters from the franchise, attending wizardry classes at Hogwarts and completing story-related tasks.

The game has co-op play so users can play with someone in their home or even someone online.

All of this features the signature tongue-in-cheek humor that has become a signature of all Lego games.

“Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4” is rated E10+ and is out this week on the PC, all the next-gen consoles, the PSP and the DS for between $30 and $50.