The observational marketing jokes just don’t land. The CEO’s playable adult son, Scooter (or DJ Jockitch), is an insufferable send-up of “kids these days,” and the CEO is too cynical a parody of X-treme Capitalism. Shakedown: Hawaii is an open world action-adventure video game developed and published by Vblank Entertainment, the same company behind Retro City Rampage. Instead, most of my enjoyment came from stealing a car and torching everything in sight with a flamethrower. Perhaps the shakedown missions were meant to be the meat of the game, sprinkled throughout the city like Hyrulian shrines, but they were far too easy and accessible from the start. Thankfully, when I had reached my absolute limit of cutscenes, the story abruptly ends. The game is also releasing on PS4, PS Vita, and PC, though the 3DS version is coming later. Developer Vblank Entertainment has released a new ‘Hostile Takeover’ trailer showcasing some of the gameplay. Only a few missions, starring a mysterious Spanish speaker taking over cartel businesses for the company, offer much action or challenge. Shakedown: Hawaii is coming to Nintendo Switch on May 7. While speeding through town and plowing through almost anything is a blast, that feels more like a leftover than a core mechanic.
Most often, the CEO just drives from business to business to undo or react to some business mistake he made in a previous cutscene. I quickly amassed enough cash to clear any upcoming story hurdles hundreds of times over. I spent enough time on upgrades to memorize the button presses and maxed everything on autopilot. I predict release dates for Shakedown, and other Nindies in. The uncooperative menu fought me after each purchase. Nintendo Switch Shakedown Hawaii release date incoming Other cool Nindies quazyqual 5 years ago 1. After a short bathroom break, I returned with enough money to buy almost the entire island. This is Shakedown: Hawaii’s unfinished focus. Players can spend this money to buy businesses or exploitative marketing multipliers, like targeted ads and convenience fees. The company makes a daily profit every few in-game minutes. I'd shaken down the entire island within two hours. Each store has its own requirements, like scaring off customers or destroying inventory. These missions see him travel across the Hawaiian island to shakedown small businesses through mob-style terrorism. The CEO rises from his recliner to intimidate his competition into corporate takeovers. Gameplay-wise, it is played from a top down perspective in an environment that is almost 100% destructible, with NPCs that can be interacted with, and over 200 buildings that can be entered.The player controls a grumpy CEO and author of “My Company Runs Itself: I'm at the Beach” with his company at the brink of bankruptcy. It is up to the three main characters to rebuild their corporate empire using either legal or illegal methods such as violating consumer standards, shaking down and intimidating other businesses, sabotaging their rivals, razing whole towns for development, and more. Together, they from the head of Feeble Multinational, a Hawaii-based conglomerate formed decades ago that is now on the verge of bankruptcy, with most of its profits being sapped by new business strategies such as streaming, online shopping, and ride-sharing apps. The Wii U (and Steam) version will follow in August. The story follows the adventures of the three main characters: the unnamed CEO, his son Scooter, and his righthand man only know as “The Consultant”. The Wii version of Shakedown: Hawaii will go on sale Thursday, July 9 at 1 p.m. Odd port choices aside, Shakedown: Hawaii first released for the PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, PS Vita, and PC via the Epic Games Store over a year ago, Shakedown: Hawaii is a tongue-in-cheek parody of 1980’s pop culture, retro games, and open-world titles, most notably the Grand Theft Auto series. Shakedown Hawaii (Switch, 3DS eShop) does not have a release date yet. The developer first teased the project via Twitter last year, which you can check out below. of players Single System (1) Genre Action Adventure Arcade Publisher Vblank Entertainment ESRB rating Teen Supported play modes TV mode, Tabletop mode, Handheld mode. There are still games releasing for the Wii and Wii U. Developer Vblank Entertainment has just announced that the open-world action title Shakedown: Hawaii will be coming soon to the Wii on July 9, followed by a Wii U and Steam release in August.
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