This is probably the oddest free thing to emerge from EA for the last few months: Tiberium Earth, which turns Google Earth into a kind of Tiberium-based fan mod. You get to imagine what it might be like if Earth really was infested with the crystalline super-resource from the games… Albeit using Google Sketchup, so not exactly click ‘n spray.
I can cover your house in alien mess.
Which sort of begs the question of why anyone would want to? I don’t know about you guys, but I’m a little surprised that anyone is investing much time in the C&C fiction. I mean – does anyone consider themselves a fan of the green stuff? (I’m imagining a conversation somewhere deep within EA where a dev playing with Google Earth explains what he’s doing to his boss: “Sure, the kids love this stuff!”)
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Well, as a PR activity it definitely did its job.
You cynic – they did it for the kids! We love this stuff.
As a child, I always thought Tiberium was awesome. I remember building harvesters out of Legos.
Yea I’m pretty sure tiberium is awesome. Blow me.