Cool, but at this point in time everyone should just go on mapcrunch - which was one of the first if not THE first to ever do it - and enjoy a free experience without the hassle of having to wait to play a game after only 5 rounds. All you gotta do is enable the stealth setting and you're set. I'm not paying any money for a more than a decade old concept that was already free to begin with.
Sometimes a free roaming exploration experience suplants superfluous gamification.
Sometimes a free roaming exploration experience suplants superfluous gamification.
The game itself is great. It's a simple concept, and it's realized really well. Especially now, with different game modes and lots of different maps. This is one of those games I can come back to whenever and play for a little bit, and it's great.
But the competitive scene just kinda ruined the game a little for me. They took it all way too far. At this point you can't be anywhere near competitive unless you learn specific tiny innocuous things that differentiate countries or cities. Maybe that stuff is okay, but in some cases you need to memorize details about the google street view coverage. That just feels like it completely goes against the spirit of the game, and yet it's impossible to be competitive without that.
So ultimately this just takes the fun out of all the competitive modes, unless you have friends you can play with. The rest of the stuff is fun though, if you're into geography or like the concept.
I've had lots of fun just trying to get perfect scores on different maps, or trying out fun and weird user created maps. It's good. The game is good. Just don't take it too seriously.
But the competitive scene just kinda ruined the game a little for me. They took it all way too far. At this point you can't be anywhere near competitive unless you learn specific tiny innocuous things that differentiate countries or cities. Maybe that stuff is okay, but in some cases you need to memorize details about the google street view coverage. That just feels like it completely goes against the spirit of the game, and yet it's impossible to be competitive without that.
So ultimately this just takes the fun out of all the competitive modes, unless you have friends you can play with. The rest of the stuff is fun though, if you're into geography or like the concept.
I've had lots of fun just trying to get perfect scores on different maps, or trying out fun and weird user created maps. It's good. The game is good. Just don't take it too seriously.
Perfection in simplicity. A game where you're placed somewhere within the google maps ecosystem and your tasked with finding where ever you are. It's like a road trip with no end goal and you get to experience random communities from around the world. I couldn't imagine a way to make this game's concept better, everything it needs is there. Perfect for what it was setting out to do