Google Kills Google Shoot View, the Street View-based FPS
Google has stepped in and put a stop to Google Shoot View, a game that uses Google Street View as the setting for a first person shooter.
Google Shoot View allowed players to play an FPS using familiar neighborhoods as the backdrop for the game and uses innocent bystanders as stationary targets. BusinessInsider reports that Dutch digital ad agency Pool Worldwide received a warning from Google that its game violated the Google Maps Terms of Service. As a result, Pool pulled the game.
"We received an email that apparently it was infringing on their terms of use, so we put the rest of the site down," Creative director Erwin Kleinjan said, adding that for the three days that the game existed, it had peaked at about 3,000 visitors per minute and crashed the company's web server.
Google has not yet commented publicly on its decision to pull Pool's permission to use the Google Street View API, however, it's not exactly hard to see why Google would want to distance itself from such a project, especially in light of recent events at Virginia Tech, Belgium's city of Liege, and, earlier this year, the Norwegian island of Utøya.
Check out the trailer for the game below. While it doesn't show any game play, it does offer an idea of what the game is like.
Looks like the trailer has been pulled. However, there is now gameplay on YouTube, courtesy of user Shurkill. Check it out:
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So, even the video doesn't work now... Epic censorship is epic.
Around 1997 I had this same idea...that someone would build a first-person game using a map of the real world. It would be awesome to see my house in virtual form, and walk around my neighborhood in a game. It's still a cool idea, but it shouldn't violate any other company's terms of use, and just being able to shoot innocent bystanders is pretty crappy.
You know what- why don't you just download the videa on host it on your server- I mean if it get pulled form yourube and its linked here- your make your article look like shiet... if somebody contacts you on the other hand and says, please remove the video, at least you can update your content and remove it.. with out getting broken links... common! And don't tell me you don'y know how to dl a YouTube video..
Ahhh, that sucks....
With a little bit of work, it could be an MMOFPS
=D
Weres da shootin'?
could have been interesting if it was scripted where the Street view is used as background for character gameplay(including AI). Such a game would never run out of non-repetitive scenery, making it the biggest open-world gameplay.
Now, it only looked like someone pasted a transparency over a screen where streetview was displayed. Meh.
game lameness at its greatest
This video is not from Google Shoot, it was done in video editor (it is said in author's comments in the end). Quick search in youtube will find you real trailer
nevermind the google maps terms of service, what about commercial (i.e. criminal) copyright infringement on art and sound assets from modern warfare 3?
Nobody gets shot in the video? WTF?
Ahhh, that sucks....With a little bit of work, it could be an MMOFPS =D
That would be MAG or any other FPS games that are out there. Like C.O.D. and Battlefield for instance.
Ah ... no fun!!!!! This must be the NFL!
Wait a bit and you'll see Google licence its maps out to game developers.
The game idea : Irresponsible and dumb . . . :-(
When i was in junior high and high school i used ot make Doom and duke nukem maps of my house all the time.
And yet GTA isnt a big deal, its a just a game too.
That would be MAG or any other FPS games that are out there. Like C.O.D. and Battlefield for instance.
mag... not so much, i believe its called Planetside is the only mmofps that i know of, and it suffered due to sever fragmentation on its expansion.
a true mmo fps would be awesome.
hey i thought this was a good idea. wouldn't a game be much more involving if you were to be playing in your neck of the woods? perhaps even being able to enter the house you grew up in (imagine if it does not even exist anymore, wouldn't that be excellent?)
People are stupid. Really stupid. Not you guys, I meant people in general. Who would make such a game? Ugh.
^ If it can be made someone will make it. Especially if it offends (these days of the internet and all). Anyway who cares i gotta get back to BF3...
To: Freyjaschosen,
Absolutely agree - had the same idea around 2002 - so you're first but my incorporated a backpack including a PC and those projecting glasses that would render the game's action on top of normal view around a person. Link all that with GPS receiver to track each player and you can run around your neighborhood with a plastic gun and "see" normal traffic, other people and everything with the exception of other players whose actions would be rendered on top of the real life view - augmented reality FPS in other words... It would look a bit stupid to run around with a gun, let alone coppers stopping you from time to time - but imagine the income from all the fans getting in agreement with local authorities to run a tournament across certain, well marked area of the town for like 3-4 hours...
mag... not so much, i believe its called Planetside is the only mmofps that i know of, and it suffered due to sever fragmentation on its expansion. a true mmo fps would be awesome.
True you cannot go out and explore the world in MAG, but it can support up to 128 players in one match. Now that is MMO on PS3. Just because it's not in ones' browser, doesn't necessarily mean it is not a MMO.
And then you have the Battlefield Heros MMO. That is a fun game, but I cannot play it because my internet sucks where I live and I haven't upgraded my video card since I bought my computer. MMOs will always have a lag issue because of where the server is based or whoever is hosting the game like on PSN or XBox Live.
True you cannot go out and explore the world in MAG, but it can support up to 128 players in one match. Now that is MMO on PS3. Just because it's not in ones' browser, doesn't necessarily mean it is not a MMO.And then you have the Battlefield Heros MMO. That is a fun game, but I cannot play it because my internet sucks where I live and I haven't upgraded my video card since I bought my computer. MMOs will always have a lag issue because of where the server is based or whoever is hosting the game like on PSN or XBox Live.
mag has a large player count, but you cant all get together, its realiticly 4-8 matches that happen to be in the same area working tward a goal. i mean battle field 3 had 128 hack, and that i wouldnt consider an mmo... to me an mmo needs a presistant world whether you are there or not, and not in a i win x matches we get this area, i mean we are fighting back in real time to claim an area.
I'll stay with Day of Defeat. Still magic after all these years.