Well now’s your chance to find out Imagine the scenario: the undead are real, and there’s been outbreaks in Reading, Warrington, and Milton Keynes – admittedly, it might be hard to tell.
Gift experience specialists Buyagift.com, have developed three zombie bootcamps, at awesome locations including an abandoned shopping mall in Reading and an old manor in Warrington where zombie survivalists can slay the undead to their heart’s content.
Tooled up with foam and rubber coshes and the very latest in NERF firepower (what is NERF Firepower?), your task is to eliminate the Zombies before they overrun the building and feast on the humans inside.
So how does it work?
The Mall
The day is split into two parts. First off, you’ll have a 2-2.5 hour ‘movie like’ experience’ where you’ll be armed and receive a full briefing from a special police firearms unit.
Before long, you’ll find yourself part of a real-time storyline, where your every move could affect the world around you. And when you least expect it, you’ll be pitted against a ferociously hungry hoard of zombies in a series of computer game like missions – only this time, it’s real! (kind of).
The Old Manor
You’ll experience the sheer terror of entering an old manor and it’s grounds that has been infested with the undead. With weapons and basic training, you’ll need to keep yourself and your friends alive. But ammunition is limited and so you’ll need to engage in some hand-to-hand combat. Hope you’ve got nerves of steel!
How can you get involved? It’s dead simple (pun intended). You simply need to visit www.buyagift.com, book your experience, ring the location you want to visit and take part. Everything you need will be provided on the day – all you really need to do is survive!
Other locations
Buyagift also offer the Zombie Bootcamp experience in Milton Keynes. Here, those who are brave enough receive three training phases, each lasting around 40 minutes. They then move on to the final mission stage which lasts for around an hour (if they survive that long). The stages are as follows:
1: Learn all about contact drills and the high-powered Nerf gun that will be your best friend on the day.
2: Take aim and master chest and head shots to make sure you’re ready to take down the onslaught
3: Gain experience inhand-to-hand combat and sniper drills ahead of the final mission!
Did that whet your appetite for zombie activities? Check out the best zombie events from around the UK.
Zombie Larp: White Noise
24th March 2012 @ 10.30am – 9.00pm
Friar’s Walk Mall, Reading
Zombieshop.co.uk
You’ll get to take part in four massive scary games in a shopping mall filled with zombies. Equipped with the latest NERF fire-power and foam rubber, you will be able to smite the undead.
Located in Friar’s Walk Mall, it is a four storey labrynth of corridors, tunnels, storerooms, derelict shops and arcades which will echo the moans of the damned.
It is an ideal location for a zombie breakout, next to Reading train station and also the home to a large car park.
Zombie Larp is the place to go if you cannot think of anything better to do on a Saturday.
Resident Evil: Operation Raccon City UK live takeover
22nd March @ The Bells of Shoreditch @ 1pm – 8pm
48 Kingsland Road, Shoreditch, E2 8AA
Ever wanted to go on a Zombie Hunt around London using real world and augmented reality zombies? If so, this is for you. Expect lots of running around the city using your smart phones in an attempt to find those undead critters.
You will be able to view the zombies using special software for iPhone and Android. You can buy your app from the Resident Evil microsites Facebook page.
You will be truly frightened, seeing them pop up in our locations across the UK, including Bristol and Manchester.
Zombie Boot Camp
£59.00 – Fridays to Sundays @ Driotwich, Worcestershire. From 4pm
Zombie Boot Camp – where the living meet the dead. You will be able to undergo live action role play. You will have a unique experience when you are put in to the midst of a zombie outbreak, which has spread across the UK.
You will be the latest recruit to sign up for RAM training, you will be issued with a new uniform, as well as body armour to protect yourselves.
You will be trained to:
-Close Quater Battle Fighting using a semic authomatic assult rifle or pump action shotgun.
-Break into buildings
-Combat techniques
-Using household items to incapitate a zombie
-Fight as a cohesive team
-Deploy as a foot or vehicle patrol
Next you will be taken out to test your skills on live targets.
It will last for around 4 hours. If you are able to survive the attack, your family and friends will be in safe hands during any apocalypse that happens anytime soon.
Available to buy here
Zombie Survival Experience Days
Saturdays and Sundays
Starting from £50. @ various locations.
You can buy events in many forms, from airsoft based days, full on experience days to full on horror events. However brave you’re feeling, there is many levels which you can choose from.
Airsoft is aimed at those who play airsoft all the time or have their own equipment. These events are made to look at realistic as possible.
Experience days are great if you have had not had a great deal of airsoft gaming. Everything is taken care off and provided for you.
The full horror events last over a full day and are more intense. Limited amount of people only and allows for a personal experience for your group.
You will be given weapons training, hand to hand zombie fighting, special effects and a unique experience.
You can choose from a number of venues such as dense woodland, urban venues which include an underground nuclear bunker, abandoned army bases and old mental asylums. There is also a shopping mall for the true ‘Dawn of the Dead’ experience.
Available to book online here
2.8 hours
Glasgow, Wednesday 28th – 31st March
Can you survive the zombie apocalypse? Held in a series of locations across the city, you must find your way across without being intercepted by the zombies. Start from the first location on the map and just hope you are able to make it to the last point.
You will be scanned for infections, if you are clear you can enter. However, if you are not, you must be part of the zombie clan.
Bring a mobile phone, its useful to find friends and ask for help when you get lost. Some money too.
Purchase the ticket and it will have the location which you will have to start at. The game will last… 2.8 hours.
You will end up at a zombie disco, complete with a bar.
Do you think you have what it takes?
Available to purchase here
