You can see Armageddon in Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3, in I am Legend, in 28 Days Later and hundreds and hundreds of other novels, games and movies, the latter usually by the tedious Roland Emmerich.
Now James Chadderton has smashed Manchester up.
The Town Hall is a blasted husk, the Palace Theatre is wrecked. Urbis, the best of the sequence, is a shattered shell. There are no people, they are killed or gone, the streets are empty.
Manchester is dead."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-ma ... r-16054633
http://www.manchesterconfidential.co.uk ... f-Our-City
Manchester Apocalypse: Death Of Our City
MANKIND has always found appeal in the endgame.
There's something clean and thereuptic in imagining the whole thing gone, blown away, all the vanity and pride of human ambition reduced to a backdrop for deer to graze in and crows to wheel through.
At the same time the apocalyptic vision gives us a shiver of terror, allows us to measure the fragility of our sophisticated way of life.
James Chadderton has smashed Manchester up. The Town Hall is a blasted husk, Urbis is a shattered shell, the Palace Theatre is wrecked. There are no people, they are killed or gone, the streets are empty.
To scare ourselves this way is an ancient tradition.
It starts with the Tower of Babel being cast down by a vengeful Jehovah in the Old Testament.
In English it's present right at the beginning of the language in the magnificent eighth century Anglo-Saxon poem The Ruin - click here.
Centuries later during the Grand Tour young British aristocrats would contemplate the ruins of Rome and muse big on the fall of empire - would that be the fate of the British Empire? Back home they built elegant ruins to close off views in the gardens of their country houses to give them more thinking time
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The wheel doesn't look very credible IMO.
