The idea of the game is simple: you have 4 vehicles which you can drive on 9 tracks or better said maps including the Suzuka and Nurburgring race track, Autobahn A100 and Googleplex.

The 2D Driving Simulator by Japan-based developer Frame Synthesis lets you drive (nearly) anywhere in the world. After punching in the address, you can start exploring the area from a top-down ...

Based on the satellite images pulled together by Google Maps, 2D Driving Simulator allows you to drive anywhere you want from the comfort of a bird's eye view. By using your keyboard keys to ...

In other words, you can easily go off the road and drive over a building because the Google Maps imagery only serves as a background for the driving simulator.

The London-based developer recently became viral on Twitter, after he posted his recent project of a driving game using Google Maps.

Well, one possibility is 2D gaming on real maps. Geoquake developed a 2D driving sim that uses a Flash app to interact with Google Maps.

1 You can turn Google Earth into a driving simulator Credit: Frame Synthesis The game was created by Japanese software developer Frame Synthesis and is available for free on the firm's website.