Google Shoot View is pretty good fun. In essence the game is just a fire-able machine gun superimposed on top of Google Maps Street View and, to be honest, there isn't much of a game element to this app. But - is is a lot more fun than that makes it sound.
The game is embedded in a fairly accurate reproduction of the Google Maps user interface. So if you want to shoot up a particular location - you know where the search bar is (but do you know where you boss lives?).
(p.s. if anyone from Pool reads this - activate the link tag! The game would be much more viral if users could send a link of a particular location to friends.)
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Hi Keir, we're going to working on it. Thanks for the post!
Gtrz Erwin/Pool
hey Keir,
Thanks for the advice! We've now added localized linking :)
Excellent - although it seems to have gone viral already.
I've read at least three reviews of the game in the last half hour. I see Venture Beat have gone for the sensationalist approach.
I thought it was inevitable that someone would try and get more hits for a story on Google Shoot View by going for the 'OMG - this is sick' approach.
FYI - Shut down by Google - http://apb.directionsmag.com/entry/google-blocks-first-person-shooter-maps-promotion-and-other-google-geo/220143
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