![]() in which you regularly intimidate and kick to submission for the sake of ownership. and how average people earn money in this world? If they're not into crime, White-Collar Crime or not like your protagonist, they're into lowly retail jobs such as cashiers. For instance, every single food and drink seems to be artificial, laced with preservatives, or filled with cost-cutting measures, common video game consoles are overloaded with advertising, so is the internet, also any tech gadgets not only cost a fortune but are also served as a subscription. Crapsack World: Everything in the world exist only to drain people out of their money with various schemes.Not that the opponents and the world at large are any better, though. Corrupt Corporate Executive: The protagonist soon has to resort to this in order to quickly save his business. ![]() However, they are dreadfully easy to break out of. Cardboard Prison: Some stores try to drop the person shaking them down into a "Loss Prevention Holding Unit" after they attempt their shakedown.Capitalism Is Bad: The game is not subtle at all about how this is its main message, being about every single dirty, underhanded, and predatory trick modern Mega Corps use to skirt around the law and government regulations, making their products worse to cut costs while also inflating prices, creating monopolies, and generally conning and fleecing their customers.The last you see of him is escaping Hawaii as a wanted criminal. First he was roped into faking gameplay video to promote "Gamer Cola" and then after having a rather stable shift job, got roped into doing crime with Scooter and Al for "publicity". Butt-Monkey: "Chad" AKA "MC Balm Drop" is this to highly exaggerated levels.Some cashiers will fight you head-on during Shakedowns.Some civilians will retaliate with handguns or baseball bats if you attack them.And Now for Someone Completely Different: The game will occasionally switch characters to focus on The CEO's attempt to rebuild his company, his son Scooter's GTA-esque street crime levels and Al, the "consultant" used to settle affairs overseas whose stages are purely combat oriented.Anachronism Stew: See Retro Universe below.Taking place 30 years after Retro City Rampage, it stars an old, overweight (soon to be) Corrupt Corporate Executive in a quest to save his floundering company via crooked business practices aided by his son and his hired gun, in 16-bit graphics and Synthwave soundtrack. The game uses same gameplay and graphic style as its predecessor (though where Retro City aimed for an 8-bit aesthetic, Shakedown tries to emulate the games of the 16-bit era), but the story this time leans less towards parody, and more heavily towards satire. And yes, you really are reading these last two consoles and dates correctly. It was released on May 7th, 2019 for Microsoft Windows on Epic Games Store, PlayStation 4, Play Station Vita, Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo Switch, followed by ports on July 9th, 2020 for the Wii and August 2020 for the Wii U (along with a Windows release via Steam). We also share information about your use of our website with our social media, advertising and analytics partners.Shakedown: Hawaii, developed by Canadian studio Vblank Entertainment, is the spiritual sequel to Retro City Rampage. We use cookies to personalize content and ads, provide social media features, and analyze the use of our website. This helps us measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. ![]() Microsoft Advertising uses these cookies to anonymously identify user sessions. It also serves behaviorally targeted ads on other websites, similar to most specialized online marketing companies. ![]() The Facebook cookie is used by it's parent company Meta to monitor behavior on this website in order to serve targeted ads to its users when they are logged into its services. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for us and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. The purpose of Google Analytics is to analyze the traffic on our website. Security (protection against CSRF Cross-Site Request Forgery) Stores login sessions (so that the server knows that this browser is logged into a user account) which cookies were accepted and rejected). Storage of the selection in the cookie banner (i.e. being associated with traffic metrics and page response times. Random ID which serves to improve our technical services by i.e. Server load balancing, geographical distribution and redundancy ![]()
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