Google Maps is an essential and indispensable tool for everyone, to be opened every time you plan a trip, a holiday or if you have to go to a new place with the car. Google Maps provide a window on the world, with triple viewing modes: from the top of the satellite, a three-quarter 3D panoramic view taken from Google Earth and Street View mode, where you can walk on the streets photographed at 360 degrees. With Street View you can explore panoramas, cities, monuments and landscapes from all over the world.
It is therefore natural that the world photographed in Google Maps and, in particular, with Street View can become the scenario of some very original and creative online games, which in addition to being fun lead us to discover new places in the world that are not imagined to exist. It is therefore worth seeing the best games on Google Maps and Street View, free and online on the internet .
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1) Find Carmen SanDiego is a very nice game on Google Earth, where you can travel the world virtually to see some of the most beautiful cities from above or in StreetView mode.
2) Snake on Google Maps was the April 2019 Fish, still playable online today on a dedicated web page.
3) Real World Racer is a car racing game where you have to drive a car on the road in Google Maps and beat your opponents by finishing first.
Real Worl Racer allows you to drive on real roads around the world, with a simple and basic game, which however becomes interesting because it is set on the world map.
The machine is driven using the arrows and must be followed without cutting it and without leaving the path, covering the various checkpoints.
There are currently 8 routes, including one in Rome.
You can also give a starting address and a place of arrival by creating the personalized road route to follow.
4) Playmapscube is the game where you can roll a ball into a 3D cube. Using the mouse, you have to move the 3D cube by moving it as if you were holding it, using the slope to slide the ball along the city streets. The game consists of eight levels, each set in a different city: Paris, San Francisco, New York, Tokyo and other places. Players must roll the ball through each of these places, tilting the cube to find the fastest way to go from one place to another . The goal is nothing more than to make the speed record to complete the different levels in the shortest time possible.
5) Verne The Himalayan is an extraordinary game, only for Android, all in 3D. In this game Google has used its Google Maps as the background of the game by moving a snowman or Yeti drawn as a cartoon called Verne, which runs, jumps and flies over the Himalaya mountains. The game, in addition to being fun, has an educational purpose by providing an alternative way of exploring the highest mountains in the world.
6) GeoGuessr is a quiz game where an image taken from StreetView appears and you have to point, on the map above, where you think it is. For each answer a score is assigned according to how close you got. The game is obviously difficult but the challenge is ideal to play in pairs to see who knows more about the world and to discover new places. Each game is made up of five quizzes and, at the end, the graph of the answers and the total score is presented.
7) Santa Maps Drive is a Google game just on Google Maps where you have to drive Santa Claus to reach the city chosen on the map.
Santa Claus throws himself from above to prune the gifts and you have to guide him through the circles to make him open the parachute in the right place, that is when the circles end.
The game is really well done graphically and a lot of fun.
8) Google Smarty Pins is a geography game based on Google Maps, very fun and addicting, described in another article
9) Streetview Zombie Apocalypse is a very nice game based on Google Street view. The premise is simple: choose a position and avoid getting caught by the zombies that run on the street.
Streetview Zombie Apocalypse's goal is to stay alive for as long as possible. This application had already been mentioned among the best ways to visit the most beautiful places in the world to visit Street View .
10) Thanks to the Google Earth plugin it is also possible to play a driving simulator on Street View and the flight, helicopter and paragliding simulator .
11) BattleCell is a war strategy game where you can create and move troops on the world map to attack enemies. Google Maps is in the background and the map is divided into cells to be used to move troops as if it were the Risiko game board.
12) MapsTD is a Tower Defense game on Google Maps, where you have to defend the house from the red placeholders, placing the placeholders of other colors as a defense that follow a road
13) Finally, do not forget the Ingress games and, above all, PokemonGo, the great success of 2016, both based on the real world of Google Maps, both free for iPhone and Android.
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