I have played both, but have to say I enjoyed paintball much more than airsoft. I played paintball for close to 15 years and only last year sold the last of my stuff and retired from the sport. It was damn fun man. The speedball, the tournaments, the friends....it was all great. Airsoft has really become a little kids game these days unless you find yourself at a sanctioned scenario style game, and even then there are too many damn little kids playing. Very annoying. It's alot like COD4 on Xbox Live....kid, you're 12, stfu and gtfo!