The missions themselves are not charming not difficult. It’s all about raising hell to destroy other companies all while acquiring new firms of your own.
Sadly, that’s how the game works to the very end. After the fourth of fifth time that you hear you grumpy old fart of a protagonist rant about how pathetic the whole Uber philosophy is, you start craving for the game to throw a different joke at you.
The plot of the game is funny at first, but it gets tiresome pretty quickly. You’ll see the same joke being repeated ten billion times throughout the game. Instead of modernizing your assets to what our society wants, your task is to either raise hell for the competition or buy businesses for your brand new empire, usually by extorting them and forcing them to accept your buyout proposal. For obvious reasons, in a world where Uber, Amazon, and Netflix reign supreme, you’re nearly going bankrupt. You’re a mogul that used to make a fortune on video rentals, VHS sales, and taxi services. Shakedown: Hawaii does something completely different: it relies constantly on one single joke: you’re old, your mind is stuck in the past, and you’ll do whatever it takes for society around you not to modernize itself.Įverything revolves around this schtick. Rampage relied heavily on pop culture references, nods to classic video games and cameos by indie favorites such as Steve from Minecraft. That doesn’t mean that both games share the same atmosphere, however. Instead of chiptunes, Shakedown opts for a fantastic synthwave soundtrack as well. While Retro City Rampage went for an 8-bit aesthetic, Shakedown climbs one extra step on the ladder and goes for a SNES-esque 16-bit visual style. Just like its predecessor, this game tries to recreate the top-down shenanigans of the first two Grand Theft Auto games with a retro coat of paint. Shakedown: Hawaii is the successor to Retro City Rampage, an indie darling released in 2012 to critical and commercial acclaim.
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