River City Ransom
River City Ransom offers the combination of Open World, Action Role-playing, and Beat ‘em up elements developed by Technos Japan and published by Arc System Works. Both modes such as Multiplayer and Single-player are available to select and play. The game is the 3rd installment in the series of Kunio-Kun, released for consoles. Like the previous games, this title underwent several modifications in its story and graphics during it localization to make the game more portable. The storyline of the game revolves around high school students named Ryan and Alex, as they cross River City in order to save River City High and the girlfriend of Ryan named Cyndi from the clutches of a villain known as Stick. During the journey, they fight against gangs of students and several bosses. The premise of the game is Beat ‘em up, and it is mixed with role-playing action elements. It offers the non-linear gameplay, enabling the player to navigate an open world, in a sandbox manner. The fighting style of the game is similar to Double Dragon video game, in that the player moves freely across the screen while hitting the button to punch, jump, or kick.
#1 Shakedown: Hawaii
Shakedown: Hawaii is a Pixel Graphics, Action-Adventure, Retro-style, Top-down, and Single-player video game, offering the similar gameplay to Grand Theft Auto (2004), developed and published by Vblank Entertainment, Inc. The game offers the open world environment and the player steps into the protagonist’s role with an aim to explore the world from a top-down perspective and complete a set of missions to advance. It parodies huge corporation, white collar crimes and more. As the protagonist, the player can move across the environment, use a set of weapons to face rivals and smash them to earn money which can be used to unlock further content. The game comes with increasingly difficult, and the player will face challenging enemies upon reaching higher levels. During gameplay, the player interacts with other characters and pick power-ups to increase the shooting ability. The player is tasked to create a legitimate corporation via open world missions, shakedown, sabotage, and more. With prominent features, top-down action, open missions, and original soundtracks, Shakedown: Hawaii is one of the best games as compared to other of the same genres.