Should Google Maps Change to s First Person Shooter?

[Uncle Sparky]

Suggested by The Daily Show, but it actually happened -

Pool Worldwide, a Dutch digital ad agency, has created perhaps the finest viral self-promotion device ever conceived: "Google Shoot View," in which Google Maps' Street View function is recast as a shoot-'em-up video game.

It's simple in concept but brilliantly executed: The shop simply used Google's Street View database of 360 degree street-level photography, and imposed an automatic rifle sight and some sound effects on top of it.

Now, when you're looking for directions, you can lay down a pattern of suppressing tracer fire while doing so. The image above is of me about to take out a taxi near Business Insider's offices on Park Avenue South in New York...

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/final...#ixzz33YOpGNJm

Funny stuff.

[Sava]

It's harmless. But wait until some idiot does it in front of the White House's street view... or in front of a synagogue... or somewhere "urban". I can't wait for that shitstorm

[Dr Strangelove]

They should offer a "tanker's eye view" and a "Godzilla eye view" also.

[Sava]

[ColdWizard]

Sava mode, where all you see is butts and weed.

[Sava]

That's actually pretty much what it's like.

Throw in some cats and hockey, and you're set.

[ColdWizard]

Cats

Hockey