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Thursday, July 31, 2008

Games Google Aids Japanese Zombie Invasion

Posted by Earnest "Nex" Cavalli on Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:17 AM

Have you ever wanted to lead a group of zombie attack survivors through the wilds of Laurelhurst Park?

Too damn bad. The Last Guy doesn't do Portland, Oregon (yet).

What it does do though, is give PlayStation 3 owners a chance to lead people to safety among hordes of zombies, insects and monsters on a real-time map of Akakusa, Japan culled directly from Google Earth.

It'd be much more rad if it were personally tailored to the area I live in, but that's an argument I can make with any game -- Grand Theft Auto Hillsboro anyone?

 

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i grew up in hillsboro and i know where all the sweet jumps and gun shops are/were located. "fairly honest don's machine gun parlor" was a real place. Also, ask anyone who was in middle school from 1989-94 where the "dunes" were located.

holy crap i want GTAHB
Posted by miguelaron on July 31, 2008 at 11:53 AM · Report
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Where's that review of Soulcaliber 4? I want a serious review of its artistic merits.
Posted by Graham on July 31, 2008 at 12:49 PM · Report
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Soon, Graham. Soon.
Posted by Erik Henriksen on July 31, 2008 at 1:34 PM · Report
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How come video game reviews are ghettoized into the Film Section? It's a travesty. Fucking travesty I say.
Posted by Graham on July 31, 2008 at 1:41 PM · Report
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Moving past your dickish assertion that the film section is a ghetto, Graham, the reason is this: We don't have a full gaming section in the paper, so videogames, when we cover them, have to get stuck into another section. For now, at least, gaming seems to fit best alongside film--or at least it fits better there than it would alongside music, or books, or theater, or food, or etc.
Posted by Erik Henriksen on July 31, 2008 at 2:06 PM · Report

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