I spent most of my time, when I didn’t have to drive, getting places by foot or using the game’s subway system. Cars were difficult to control and just felt skittish, making traversing by vehicle a real chore. Driving vehicle’s just wasn’t fun for me. If there’s one thing that I didn’t like about Shakedown Hawaii it was the driving. Everything looks just 16-bit right on a small screen like the Vita. Things are just waaaaay too pixelated on the large screen. I started playing the game on my PS4 which is connected to 55-inch TV and it really seems a game more suited to the smaller form factor like the PS Vita (yes, it’s on the handheld that Sony has pretty much forgotten), which is what I did using the PlayStation’s remote play functionality. ![]() Shakedown Hawaii’s visuals made me feels nostalgic for the games of old. I was a child of the ZX Spectrum, the Atari and the 486 PC, and Shakedown Hawaii’s visuals hark back to a bygone age where games like those LucasArts classics relied on game play and not photo-realistic graphics to carry them. The game’s visual style is reminiscent of some of the games I grew up with as a teenager. Shakedown Hawaii doesn’t take itself too seriously, either. ![]() From shoe shops to clothing outlets to automative dealers that repossess cars, the world is literally yours for the taking. You can also literally buy every single building in the game. Shakedown Hawaii is an open-world game with a mix of driving, shooting and wandering around where missions can be as simple as stealing a speed boat for some misadventure to renaming an unpopular energy drink so it appeals to gamer culture. As it says in the title, The CEO decides the way to remake his fortune is to do what he does best: Shakedown the local economy by buying businesses, harrassing shop keepers and taking the town over, business by business, building by building, suburb by suburb. Played from a top-down perspective, Shakedown Hawaii pokes fun at a variety of games but it’s most reminiscent of games like Grand Theft Auto. You must do what you can to rise to the top, becoming kingpin again. You play (mainly) as a failed businessman – the CEO – who made his fortune in the 1980s from his self-help book but decades on, he’s now running out of money and a relic in an age of streaming entertainment, video games and online shopping – and his business empire is crumbling. In fact, this is how I described Shakedown Hawaii in a recent tweet: Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Shakedown Hawaii is a cynical statement about today’s modern age told through the eyes of a dinosaur who is stuck in his ways & is unprepared to change. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. ![]() Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic.
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