Thug Life
Thug Life is an Adventure, Simulation, and Single-player video game developed by Zeeman. Throughout the game, the player controls an unnamed character where the main mission is to live like a gangster. The game lets the player perform any desired task such as killing innocents, riding bikes, driving cars, or other gangster tasks.
The game controls are very simple such as using a joystick; the player can control the character’s movement. On the right side of the screen, the player will find some action buttons to perform actions. Identical to other same genre games, the game has a map at the top of the screen. At night, the player can use the torch in the dark streets.
Controlling the character from the third-person perspective is easy and convenient. The player can use multiple weapons to complete the shooting missions. Completed missions will grant money to the player that he can use to purchase upgrades or customize the character. The game’s core features are Third-person Perspective, Multiple Weapons, Simple Controls, Simulation, and Virtual Money.
#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.
#2 Retro City Rampage
Retro City Rampage deals with Action-Adventure, and Open World gameplay elements developed and published by Vblank Entertainment. The game serves as the parody of retro video games and 80s and 90s pop culture, as well as offering the similar gameplay to Grand Theft Auto. It takes place in the city of Theftropolis in 1985 and the player steps into the role of the protagonist, a thug, who is hired as a henchman of a huge crime syndicated controlled by Jester. After three years, during the bank heist which is gone wrong, the player runs into the time travelling telephone booth, which he then steals from its boss. As the story of the game proceeds, the telephone booth flings the player forward an indeterminate set of time to the year 20XX. Upon reaching, the telephone both breaks down and a man appears named Doc Choc in his own time travelling vehicle and saves the player. Now, the player has to gather the rare parts required to repair the telephone time booth with Doc Choc, while discovering several 80s video games.