New Shakedown Hawaii Trailer Shows Just How Easy It Is To Make A Killing

Vblank Entertainment has been hard at work on the 16-bit style follow-up to its hit game Retro City Rampage, and it's moving right along in development, as we noticed in a new trailer for Shakedown Hawaii.

The game, which still doesn't have a release date yet (it's expected for sometime this year), has a number of new lucrative opportunities that can help you clean up on cash – even as you're running through the city and laying waste to enemies and innocents alike with everything from bazookas to flame throwers.

Shakedown's trailer shows just what you can do with these opportunities, starting with purchasing a business and then expanding the terrain by defeating enemies and starting to pave the way for a better tourism business to be built. It's the closest thing you'll find to "hostile takeover" that you can get which leans heavily on the "hostile."

On top of that, you can also try to take advantage of creating cheap materials for building, with the help of a lab assistant. By using certain materials, you can actually stack up on cash over the months, although you obviously run a certain risk down the road.

Finally, there's an opportunity to create your own special Superfood, in this case something that looks suspiciously like Soylent Green. (It's people, right?) But by developing the right food and then cleaning out resources, you can get a lot more money.

Oh, and there's apparently time to exercise as well, as there's a neat mini-game where you can tap buttons to get in shape and get more successful in the open world where you're set to unleash chaos.

Vblank has already noted that it will be revealing new missions and characters over the next few months, leading to the game's official launch date somewhere down the road. For now, though, you can watch the trailer above and enjoy the madness that unfolds in the minute-or-so long clip, and get ready for sheer 16-bit excitement.

The game will release later this year for PlayStation 4, PS Vita, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo 3DS and PC.