It promises to be the ultimate interactive attraction.

Calum Mackenna was among the first to do battle at the new Bannockburn Visitor Centre

With 4000 school children booked already, Stirling's Battle Of Bannockburn Visitor Centre is set to become a huge hit.

The centre, which cost £9.1million, is the first of its kind in the world and incorporates 3D imagery to take viewers back through the ages to the 1314 event when Robert The Bruce's army beat the forces of England's Edward II.

It opens on March 1 and in a press preview yesterday I got my chance to take part in Scotland's most famous battle victory.

Up to 30 participants can play the game at any one time and many more can watch and interact with players from a viewing gallery situated around the board.

Upon walking into the exhibition it is clear to see that a lot of work has gone into the visual elements of the project, which was funded by the National Trust For Scotland. The graphics for the prologue were top of the range, as an entertaining Robert The Bruce and Isabella of France (wife of Edward II) talk us through the campaign leading up to the battle.

We move into the next room and are met with huge floor to ceiling screens where Bruce himself nobly stands his ground against English knight Henry De Bohun and kills him with one fell swoop of his axe. The screens are not the only attraction in this room. Life size interactive characters stand and await the chance to give you tips that might help you win the battle game.

Amy Cassells, one of the site's three battle masters, said: "Everything is life size and all to eye level. The 3D figures you see are all to your height. It's all to create the sense you are in the middle of the battlefield to get an idea of the sounds and the sights."

But does it make you feel like you are in the middle of a battlefield? Yes and no, I was certainly standing in the middle of a digital battlefield, but at no point did it feel like I was actually there.

So we moved on to the battle room, and you could sense excitement as we were given our numbers and walked to the stations.

Anticipation was in the air as the battle game loaded up and when it did, what beautiful scenery. But it is not about the scenery, it is about battle, Scotland versus England.

What was disappointing about the game was that because the board itself was so huge and because it covered such a grand area, the characters were minuscule. Other than the crown next to Bruce's personal regiment, there would have been no telling them apart from the cavalry or the archers.

The next and last room contained the epilogue, and again the Bruce stands before us in dazzling 3D. And as I stand and listen to the rest of King Robert's life, I ponder the exhibition in itself. Regardless of whether or not the individual parts live up to expectation, it is an enjoyable exhibition, you will have fun, some laughs and, more importantly, you will learn a lot.