Apocalypse UK... the chilling vision

This videogame image released by Sony shows a scene from The Last of Us.

This videogame image released by Sony shows a scene from The Last of Us.

Published Jun 15, 2013

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London - Crumbling, with sandbags piled in front and barbed wire on the parapet, Buckingham Palace is barely recognisable.

The roof of the dilapidated royal residence also features a huge satellite dish and, even more worryingly, a foreign-looking red flag.

Brighton Pier, too, is derelict and overgrown, while Antony Gormley’s iconic Angel Of The North is clad in ivy.

This is Britain – 20 years after a deadly virus has all but wiped out mankind. The images, which include six other famous UK landmarks, were doctored by computer programmers for Sony’s PlayStation 3 game The Last Of Us, which is released this week.

The computer game follows a survivor, as he tries to smuggle a 14-year-old girl out of a military-controlled quarantine zone in a world that has been taken over by nature. - Daily Mail

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