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Built on Google Earth, Ships is an amazing (yet boring) Time Waster
by Lee Mathews May 20th 2009 at 3:00PM
I know, I know. It's really not that exciting as a game. As a glimpse into the near future, though, Ships is undeniably cool. There's also something strangely addictive about tooling around the amalgamation of satellite imagery and 3D rendered buildings.
That's my airship, tooling around downtown Cleveland, searching for a pro sports championship.
For seafaring types, you can choose from barges, cruise, and container ships and peacefully putter along the world's waterways. A cruise ship floating in the middle of Lake Eerie? Sure, why not? That site is at least as believable as the Browns winning the Super Bowl, after all.
Who knows - maybe one day games like this will progress from some kind of Open Arena - Google Earth mashup.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
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Jason said 8:13PM on 5-20-2009
Hey look you can see BOTH of our buildings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysmLA5TqbIY
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