The Apocalypse | Adventure Combat Ops | June 29, 2015

I never played Resident Evil, because I watched someone play it once and that was terrifying enough. But on Monday afternoon, I found myself in a 3D derivative, the immersive attraction known as the Apocalypse inside the brand-new Adventure Combat Ops. A zombie materialized from the floor and went straight for my ankles. I think I unloaded an entire magazine of Airsoft pellets at the poor actor, and sweat through my shirt. But the exhilarating fun wasn’t the most memorable thing about the day. It was being in a combat simulation with men who have survived the real thing many times over. Elite veterans of special ops forces across the U.S. military are your guides inside this world, and while they’re playing roles, they’re also being themselves. It’s funny that in a setting so unreal, operatives trained to be invisible could become a little more real.