Google Street View Now an FPS - UPDATED

The Wooster

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Google Street View Now an FPS - UPDATED

A Dutch ad firm has decided to add the only thing Google Street View was missing; an M4A1 assault rifle.

In Google Shoot View [http://www.poolworldwide.com/shootview/#/?q=406%20Blackwell%20St%2C%20Suite%20B020%2C%20Durham%2C%20NC%2027701&lat=35.992211&lng=-78.904909], players can explore a selection of areas culled from Google's collection of midly intrusive Street View photographs; taking in the sights and murdering everything they come across. Well ... kind of. There's no actual death animations, blood, or anything that indicates your virtual bullets are having any effect whatsoever; as I found to my disappointment when I attempted to subject the Escapist offices [http://www.poolworldwide.com/shootview/#/?q=406%20Blackwell%20St%2C%20Suite%20B020%2C%20Durham%2C%20NC%2027701&lat=35.992211&lng=-78.904909] to a hail of assault rifle fire.

The game was developed by Pool [http://www.poolworldwide.com/#pool], a "creative agency" with a list of clients that include Greenpeace and GPS navigation giant TomTom. According to the company website, Pool "produces campaigns that tap into the digital zeitgeist, creating waves in the process." I imagine Shoot View will indeed create waves, giant Daily-Mail-Headline-shaped ones. Pool has taken steps to protect themselves from the obvious fallout, however. Shoot View's locations are limited to city and town centers; searching for 'school' or 'hospital' brings up an error message, and players attempting to navigate to said areas, like, say, to nab a screenshot that will look just lovely on the front page of a newspaper, will quickly find their route blocked. That being said, the people photographed in Google Street View did not consent to have their picture taken, and they certainly didn't agree to have their likenesses used as targets in a tasteless virtual shooting gallery. Lawsuits, ho!

UPDATE: According to the Shoot View website, Google has got wind of the game and has cut off its access to the Street View API, effectively shutting it down. Pool promises the game will return.


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Agayek

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Anyone else find this absolutely hilarious in a slightly morbid and somewhat creepy fashion?
 

Tharwen

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Grey Carter said:
There's no actual death animations, blood, or anything that indicates your virtual bullets are having any effect whatsoever; as I found to my disappointment when I attempted to subject the Escapist offices [http://www.poolworldwide.com/shootview/#/?q=406%20Blackwell%20St%2C%20Suite%20B020%2C%20Durham%2C%20NC%2027701&lat=35.992211&lng=-78.904909] to a hail of assault rifle fire.
Well it does look like there's an RPG being fired from an upstairs window...

Is that a street view thing or a shoot view thing?
 

therockdemon

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i think they need to do some more work on it, i just navigated my way to my local school just fine
 

Distorted Stu

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Is it bad the first place i wanted to shoot up was my university?

I mean come ON.. its not like im training to be a terrorist or anything lol

Il just go shoot up my parents house instead..
 

Xan Krieger

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The server keeps rejecting me access for some reason. It says something about some sensor parameter that must be set to true or false :(
 

meowchef

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Xan Krieger said:
The server keeps rejecting me access for some reason. It says something about some sensor parameter that must be set to true or false :(
Sadly, I get the same thing.
 

devilmore

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meowchef said:
Xan Krieger said:
The server keeps rejecting me access for some reason. It says something about some sensor parameter that must be set to true or false :(
Sadly, I get the same thing.
http://www.poolworldwide.com/shootview

The link in the post is incorrect...
 

Korten12

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devilmore said:
meowchef said:
Xan Krieger said:
The server keeps rejecting me access for some reason. It says something about some sensor parameter that must be set to true or false :(
Sadly, I get the same thing.
http://www.poolworldwide.com/shootview

The link in the post is incorrect...
get the same error with that link.
 

The Wooster

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Korten12 said:
devilmore said:
meowchef said:
Xan Krieger said:
The server keeps rejecting me access for some reason. It says something about some sensor parameter that must be set to true or false :(
Sadly, I get the same thing.
http://www.poolworldwide.com/shootview

The link in the post is incorrect...
get the same error with that link.
Link in the post is just fine, the site keeps on going up and down. You're not missing much though.
 

Kopikatsu

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RagTagBand said:
"midly intrusive Street View photographs"

Intrusive into what? Public space?
Some guy in Australia sued Google because he was sunbathing naked in his (fenced) backyard, but he showed up on Google Earth. Don't know how that lawsuit turned out, though.
 

Xan Krieger

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Grey Carter said:
Korten12 said:
devilmore said:
meowchef said:
Xan Krieger said:
The server keeps rejecting me access for some reason. It says something about some sensor parameter that must be set to true or false :(
Sadly, I get the same thing.
http://www.poolworldwide.com/shootview

The link in the post is incorrect...
get the same error with that link.
Link in the post is just fine, the site keeps on going up and down. You're not missing much though.
I did get to use it for like 2 minutes during which I shot up the escapist office then ran down the street.
 

shadyh8er

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It has the Inception "BWAM"! This is legit!

*serious face*

This is a rather intriguing idea. (Damn, unintended reference). Thing is, what's the point of putting a gun in it if the bullets do nothing? Well yeah, there's the risk of the moral guardians getting on their high horses, but when has that ever stopped anyone?