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: 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.
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