The other characters interact with you, you go out on missions, collect supplies, and, most importantly, avoid zombies! You are one of the main characters in the story. The story–think zombie radio program–is played out in clips, interspersed with your own music. You select an episode, adjust a few settings, and go for a run. The basics of the game are pretty simple. Six to Start just released season four of Zombies, Run!, a game for iOS and Android that combines the excitement of a serial zombie show, a mobile game, and running. There’s an adrenaline rush when people get scared,” Murdy said.Many of us lack the motivation to get out of our desk chair and go for a run. “I think it’s going to be really scary but the thing is about scaring people that I’ve learned over the years and I’ve been doing this all my life is it’s kind of the same as riding a rollercoaster. The theme park previously hosted “The Walking Dead” maze for a limited run during its Halloween season, but due to the popularity of the attraction and the show, the new “Walking Dead” experience, where visitors will be “survivors” amid the zombie apocalypse, will be a permanent fixture and enhanced with props and prosthetics from the series. “It’s very physical so in some ways it’s like being an athlete because whatever they’re going to do they’re going to do every ten seconds, literally thousands and thousands if not millions of times so a lot of it has to do with being in control of their body and being able to be this close to people without actually touching them,” said John Murdy, creative director of Universal Studios Hollywood. During the press day, the cast were overseen by the AMC series’ executive producer, Greg Nicotero. The two-week training includes teaching actors to realistically playing a ‘walker’ - an undead corpse – by slowing down, dropping shoulders and trying to develop their own style of walk. Just ask the actors being put through a zombie bootcamp for Universal Studios Hollywood’s latest theme park attraction “The Walking Dead,” based on the hit AMC series.

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