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“Helicopters” is looking pretty cool

April 5, 2010

About a year ago, we told you about a cool Google Earth game called “Ships”. More recently, we showed you how Ships had been improved to show bow waves.
Now the folks at PlanetInAction are working on a new game called “Helicopters”, and it looks great!
The game isn’t available yet, but they plan to release it during the Google I/O Developers conference in May. However, Paul has provided a handful of screenshots and videos to help whet our appetites.
Here is a screenshot where they are chasing a car using a spotlight in San Francisco, which is one of the missions:

spotlight_with_cockpit.jpg

Here is a video of the helicopter in action in Auckland New Zealand:

More recently, Paul has released this video that shows a bit more of the game mechanics:

It looks like this could be a fun game, and we’ll certainly let you know when it’s released.

About Mickey Mellen

Mickey has been using Google Earth since it was released in 2005, and has created a variety of geo-related sites including Google Earth Hacks. He runs a web design firm in Marietta, GA, where he lives with his wife and two kids.

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  1. Brian says

    April 5, 2010 at 10:43 pm

    Help!Google earth has locked my earth on my mercury overlay!I deleted the overlay but it’s still there!

  2. XF says

    April 6, 2010 at 10:31 am

    SimCopter on my mind… 🙂

  3. vania says

    May 18, 2010 at 12:51 pm

    where to find the “helicopters” in google I\O?



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