Shakedown: Hawaii

Weirdly fun! It oozes charisma through its pores! The characters are incredibly charming and funny. The shooting, driving and general controls are great. The sound effects are mega nostalgic, and the scenery is beautiful. Awesome artistic direction! But things in the game happen too fast! Like ULTRA FAST! You spend like 2 minutes in each mission, then you're already doing another one completely different from the previous one. Sometimes a mission ends with something like "buy this to finish it". I don't mind quests being trivial, since it fits the comedy of the game (like fixing your printer because it has a subscription system that you would LOVE to exploit it for yourself) but they are too quick, you don't feel attached AT ALL to your progress. It's fast, it's fun and it's a great sandbox with a ridiculous amount of bite-sized content.

WE are in desperate need for another one of these...

got on sale for $6 and it was very worth it. missions are fun and fast and buying up every building on the island is so satisfying. runs perfectly on gamenative for android with barely any power drain

goated it has customization if the characters look dumb you can edit them its a sequel to retro city rampage i think marketing fell off bc of its base appearance but the gameplay is good musics good the missions are dope the graphics are cool its a nice game dont let it the poor marketing fool you

Primero comentar que lo juego en la Steam Deck. Tremendo juegazo, divino, extremadamente adictivo, puedes jugar pasando las misiones o puedes jugar andando por ahí y ya tipo GTA. Lastima que el juego no es eterno, llevo casi 20h y estoy llegando al final pero me faltan un montón de cosas secundarias por hacer, quizá me lleve un par de horas más, y después siga jugando para sacar los logros, puede que llegue a las 30h. Lo recomiendo, es buenísimo si te gustan este tipo de juegos, además pixelado que son de mi gusto. Por el tiempo recomiendo lo compren en rebaja, y si pueden jugar el primero que sacaron Retro City Rampage, haganlo también. A los desarrolladores de este juego, ¡por favor, saquen otro juego de este estilo! Gracias por esta joya

Finished the story including buying everything in about 10 hours. Really enjoyed my time with it! The game is mostly a constant barrage of shorter action segments that remind me a lot of the 2D GTA games. There's enough different variants of the gameplay segments and mini-games to keep things fresh. It's very fast paced and arcade-y, and has forgiving autosaves that let you quickly retry a mission from a checkpoint if you fail. I was never annoyed while playing this. After each action segment you are hit with a short dialogue cutscene. I really enjoyed the writing, the commentary on consumerism and modern enshittification, as well as the excellent retro vibes. It's oozing with cynicism, but stays entertaining throughout. Overall score: 9/10! I wish there was a little more side content to explore in the open world outside of the main story, but I can't really expect that from a small indie game like this.

Oh yes, shake it. Love the retro style here. The graphics are gorgeous, environments are destructive and the humour just oozes out of the screen (glad it's just the humour). This is all I've ever wanted from GTA 3 to be honest. Instead I got a sloppy, depressing and boring snoozefest in 3D while GTA 2 was a force to be reckoned with, one of a kind experience. And it seems as Shakedown: Hawaii developers decided to create a game in a very similar style to GTA 2. We've got a story here. An old boomer who listens to Creed and is a capitalistic pig wants to become the richest ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ in town (I guess Bezos does not exist in this timeline, too busy ruining LOTR with The Onion Rings Of Power) and to achieve that he'll do crime, buy all the properties, destroy wildlife, environment, just everything to see more dollars in his pockets. While our main character is deplorable while still being more ethical than half of the Vatican City, the biggest strength of this game is the fun core gameplay loop which never gets boring. Give this one a shot, it's worth your time if you love oldschool top-down open world games.