After a 12 months of tearing up the identical turf, it’s time to take the shakedown to a different retailer. Following last year’s debut on the Epic Games Store, Retro City Rampage follow-up Shakedown: Hawaii is bringing its playful, parodical GTA-esque sandbox to Steam this August. But first, builders Vblank Entertainment are as soon as once more taking a quick detour in the direction of some slightly surprising ports.
Like its NES-ish predecessor, Shakedown Hawaii is a top-down GTA parody styled after that collection’ earliest entries, painted in crunchy retro console visuals. Like Retro City Rampage, it’s additionally an infinite parade of references – however not like the often-tiresome parade of callbacks Alec lamented in his Retro City Rampage review, it does look like Shakedown’s drawing from a extra up to date nicely. Prods at VR, hypercapitalism, gamification and streaming tradition are the norm right here.
I reckon your fondness for aggressive, reference-based japes will make or break whether or not Shakedown: Hawaii is for you. But fussiness over storefronts quickly shouldn’t. After over a 12 months locked on the Epic Games Store, Vblank’s throwback crime spree is heading to Steam later this summer time. Of course, that’s after they type out a very odd bodily launch.
See, I usually wouldn’t shout about console ports on these hallowed PC pages. But builders Vblank Entertainment wish to get bizarre with platforms, beforehand bringing Retro City Rampage to MS-DOS. Shakedown isn’t going fairly as far again in time this time ’spherical. Instead, after a “whim of curiosity” one Friday evening, Vblank are choosing a launch on the Nintendo Wii on July ninth. Eh?
“I’m no stranger to porting games to discontinued platforms, even when I know they won’t see the light of day,” the devs defined in an announcement post. “It’s just something I enjoy. The older the platform, the more fun it is! The cleverer I need to be! The more ways I’ll need to figure out how to optimize things! However, for fun or not, if there’s even a small chance that a port can be released, I’ll do all the legwork I can to try and make that happen.”
There’ll solely be 3,000 copies of the Wii model launched subsequent month, and it’s first come first served. After that, the game will hit Steam (and, err, the Wii U) someday this August. And in case you’re actually not fussed, Shakedown: Hawaii is presently out there over on the Epic Games Store for £15/€20/$20.
