In terms of action, Shakedown: Hawaii operates like a streamlined version of the original top-down Grand Theft Auto. His eyeballs are always dollar signs regardless of what he’s actually seeing. Shakedown: Hawaii is a hailstorm of deception and marketing gimmicks expressed through the bleary eyed ignorance of a corporate executive. He hears buzzwords like “augmented reality,” “blockchain,” and “data mining,” and, with no idea what in the exact hell any of it means, orders a pivot in order to boost profits. He figures out, for example, he can adjust a container to only contain half a product, and yet still sell it at its original price. Through some form of electronic or social osmosis, the CEO will learn of a competitor employing some ingenious grift and then seek to apply that grift to suit his own purposes. Shakedown: Hawaii quickly establishes a pattern. It’s a blundering and blunt-force path of destruction. Newly conscious of the outside world, the CEO, his idiot son Scooter, and his South American henchman learn of every imaginable scheme 2019 has to offer and venture to wreak havoc on every animate and inanimate object in the vicinity. The CEO (who I don’t think is named!) awakens from what I assumed was two solid decades of martinis and daytime television to discover his coffers are nearing empty. Shakedown: Hawaii is what might happen if Retro City Rampage sold out, and that is very much the point.Īs the slovenly CEO of Feeble Multinational, a proprietor of VHS rentals and cabs and other things no one uses anymore, you’re an ideal position to disrupt the state of Hawaiian commerce. To fuel its open-world crime syndicate, Vblank Entertainment trades Retro City Rampage’s arcane and overt 8-bit references for the more relatable ornamentation of a corporate hellscape.
Shakedown: Hawaii is keenly aware of this wave of social decay and, rather than fight the tide, enables players to do everything imaginable to keep it rolling.
If you have found yourself blankly paying for some kind of service (or absence of service) you don’t quite understand, you are not alone.
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