If Bristol's Jack in the Green event every May bank holiday is anything to go by it seems the people of Bristol are rather fond of being chased around town by scary looking things. Which means it's the perfect place for a planned zombie apocalypse.
The living dead will be out in force, chasing after the good people of Bristol, on September 3-5 and 11-12 when Slingshot's all-conquering zombie 'urban chase game' 2.8 Hours Later: Ruin arrives with its latest installment. The basic premise of which is this: a human resistance force – that's you – must save the only remaining children still not infected by the zombie virus.
To do that, you and a carefully selected team will be released into a terrifying world of flesh-eating actors with bloody, frothing mouths with nothing more than a map and your fully-functioning human brains. In order to achieve your goal of saving the human race you'll be asked to complete a series of tasks while marauding zombies hunt you down.
If you get nabbed by one of these senseless monsters, the game is up – you'll be infected with the virus (or, you know, marked with invisible ink so the organisers can keep tabs on you).
2.8 Hours Later, which 60,000 people have already taken part in during the game's six-year existence, joins good company in Bristol, a city that already has more zombie goings-on than you can shake a severed limb at. There's zombie balls, zombie film screenings, zombie races…
It does raise the question: what the hell is wrong with you, Bristol?
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