Imagine a futuristic playground where you can whizz around on go karts before battling VR zombies, then belting out karaoke.

Well the future is now, and Gravity Max is a vast 67,000sq ft indoor attraction that has just opened at Westfield Stratford.

It's the second 'active entertainment' site in the capital following the opening of Gravity Max Wandsworth three years ago.

The concept is lots of interactive games and fun under one roof with the adjacent Heineken Sports Bar where you can eat, drink, and enjoy major sporting events like the Euros on big screens.

At the adjacent Heineken Sports Bar you can eat drink and watch major sports eventsAt the adjacent Heineken Sports Bar you can eat drink and watch major sports events (Image: Gravity Max)

The two-storey site is zoned into areas such as the Japanese-inspired gaming arcade Electric Town, Coca Cola Street with its nine-hole crazy golf, Carnival Street with old-style fairground games, and Voice Karaoke where you can sing your favourite tunes to your heart's content.

There's also a 'hyperfloor' for cracking out your best moves or playing The Floor is Lava, digital darts, and an immersive game box for group games and puzzle solving. And the bar also has DJ sets and live music alongside the sports screenings.

We started on the ground floor which is taken over by a huge E-Kart track. A 10 minute race costs around £15 and safety is taken very seriously with helmets, a briefing and strict course rules to stop collisions.

Slung low on the kart, with your hands gripping the wheel at 10 to 2, it's exhilarating negotiating the twists, bends, and downhill runs.

You may want to book more than one session though, as I was just getting the hang of it when the race was over. Clearly some of my race mates had done it before because they zoomed past me like Max Verstappen on steroids.

Your name and score gets put up on a huge board - I came an unrespectable 10th while my teen was delighted to come in first.

There was no time to congratulate him before we were upstairs in the Hologate VR Arena donning more headgear and having a gun placed in our hands.

There's a vast array of games to choose from, escape room style puzzlers to sailing the seas as a pirate chef, and laser tag matches, or even a snowball fight on a frozen lake against a yeti.

The multiplayer VR proved to be another intense, heart pounding 10-15 minutes as we splatted zombies and tried to stop ourselves from getting infected while protecting an energy core from a giant robot.

After that we needed a cold drink before clocking in for a round of nine-hole golf. You sign in digitally with your club and tap in and out of each hole while keeping your tally on a paper scorecard.

One or two were so difficult we had to just declare a draw after chopping away for a dozen strokes, but the joy of besting my teen with a couple of blinding two-par holes was worth the trip alone.

You can bring your drink around with you and enjoy the experience - even if like me you end up losing by one stroke.

By this time we were so hungry we grabbed some burgers and fries and left before we got sucked into the enticing fun of the arcades.