THE original, biggest and most sensational urban zombie chase game, 2.8 Hours Later, is returning to Cardiff next year with an incredible new story.

In the 2.8 Hours Later world, created by game designers Slingshot, a rapidly depleting number of living humans are left. Five years after the original zombie infection broke out, a devastating discovery has been made; a weaker strain of the virus has infected the entire species and, as a result, no children have been born in four years.

This epic street game will see participants join a resistance movement as they attempt to locate the last remaining group of uninfected children left on earth. The only way to prevent humanity’s extinction is to reach them before someone, or something, else does. The mission is fraught with danger; will players save themselves or save the species?

The new version of the game is called “Ruin” which follows on from last year’s “Survival”, but this time round the quest is more urgent than ever as the existence of the human species hangs in the balance.

To locate the children and bring them to safety, participants will have to leave their zombie proof headquarters at ‘Asylum’ and break in to a quarantined slum run by a brutal warlord and that is rife with the infected. Armed with little more than a map, players will have to complete physical as well as mental tasks whilst evading the zombie hordes roaming the city streets. They will have to infiltrate the warlord’s gang, evade police capture and carry out their search and rescue for the children. Players will need to do all this without being caught by the rampaging zombies. The further from Asylum they get, the more perilous their task becomes.

Characters within the game are played by convincing actors in full costume and make-up. Players who are ‘caught’ by the living dead will be marked with invisible ink signifying infection.

The game, developed by award-winning game designers, Slingshot, is now in its sixth year, with over 60,000 people having already taken part in 2.8 Hours Later to date.

There are five dates being held in March 2015 and tickets start at £38 per person.

For more information, to watch the trailer, or to book tickets please visit www.2.8HoursLater.com.