Video Game / Hungry Shark World

Hungry Shark: World is a Ubisoft/Future Games of London game for Android and IOS, released May 5th, 2016. The game is a sequel to Hungry Shark Evolution and the 6th installment in the Hungry Shark series. As with its predecessor, you control various sharks that you must level up by eating various types of prey. Sharks can be customized with accessories that provide various bonuses. After earning enough points, you will enter a Gold Rush, which makes you invincible, grants infinite boosting power, and turns all prey into gold. After several of those, you enter a Mega Gold Rush, which lasts much longer and allows you to eat any size of creature along with the standard Gold Rush bonuses, similar to the standard Gold Rush in the previous game. Ubisoft released a fantasy-themed spinoff called Hungry Dragon in 2018.

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Hungry Shark World contains examples of:

• Ability Required to Proceed: There are several barriers in the game that can only be broken by sharks of the required size tier and above. Bone barriers can only be broken by S sharks, stone barriers by M sharks, metal barriers by L sharks, blue stone barriers by XL sharks, blue crystal barriers by XXL sharks, and purple crystal barriers by !! sharks.
• Adaptational Villainy:
  • Shark species which are normally harmless to humans in real life, such as the thresher shark and even the plankton-eating Megamouth, Basking and Whale sharks are now vicious predators that will gladly devour anything in sight.
  • The console version lampshades this with the description of the Megamouth shark, implying something must have happened to make it vicious.
• Always a Bigger Fish: Enemy sharks bigger than your shark will occasionally spawn, and can't be eaten outside of a Mega Gold Rush. This only stops once you're playing as a !! shark, the largest tier in the game.
• Animal Mecha: The Robo Shark and Chip, their pet equivalent, as well as Mecha Sharkjira.
• Animalistic Abomination: Some of your sharks are true monstrosities, such as the Dark Magic Shark which can naturally fire lasers out of its eyes.
• Artistic License – Biology: The Megamouth, Basking, and Whale Sharks are portrayed as predators similar to the Great White, rather than filter feeders.
• Attack Animal: The baby sharks and other pets that can be purchased. They'll go and attack most of the animals you encounter, with some unique pets capable of attacking certain specific targets (such as Polly the Octopus, who'll attack any jellyfish).
• Big Eater: Even the smallest sharks can easily eat many times their own weight in a few minutes. Exaggerated during a mega goldrush, allowing even a tiny reef shark to eat any size of creature or object, from massive sea mines to the Megalodon.
• Bribing Your Way to Victory:
  • In-app purchases are available for gems and coins, meaning it's possible to skip from the first shark all the way to the Great White and max out the speed, bite, and boost stats if you spend enough money. That said, there are some things neither coins nor gems can (directly) do, such as unlocking cosmetics for purchase (requires completing a certain number of missions), winning premium cosmetics (requires coming in the top 2% of certain contests), or leveling up your shark (requires eating enough prey).
  • Pearls partially avert the trope, as there is no option to buy them directly. They can instead only be earned by playing the extinction mode. However, after playing the mode you can massively increase your pearl reward in return for some gems.
• Cool Crown: The crown from Evolution returns, this time granting a 25% increase in the duration of gold rushes.
• Deflector Shield: The force field, which takes damage from explosives and projectiles for you, and can be upgraded to have higher health. Once it's destroyed, however, it's gone until the next round.
• Devious Dolphins: The dolphins are sinister creatures who look flat out evil, with sharp teeth, and they will try to kill your shark no matter the size. They can deal enough damage to be a significant threat to smaller sharks.
• Difficulty by Acceleration: Of a sort. After the toughest enemies and obstacles appear, they will stop progressing. Difficulty from then on only increases by your health bar decreasing faster and faster until you're unable to eat enough to maintain it or are killed thanks to your constantly low health.
• Energy Weapon: The aptly named Laser that mounts on the sharks eye, in a Shout-Out to Austin Powers. It stuns prey and makes them worth more points, and can be upgraded up to level five to stun larger prey and for a larger point multiplier.
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The Zombie Shark, Robo Shark, and the Laser.
• Extreme Omnivore: Not only can any shark eat any type of sea life, humans, and birds as long as they're large enough, they can even eat inorganic objects, including small mines. Eating garbage, however, will harm the shark.
• Eye Beams: Chip, the pet equivalent of the Robo Shark, fires these.
• Fossil Revival: Certain sharks can only gained by collecting enough fossils to bring them back.
• Giant Squid: One serves as a boss for the Colossal Squid event.
• Give a Man a Fish...: Used on the description of the Warrior Spear item.
  Give a shark a spear and it can feed itself for a lifetime.
• Glowing Eyes: Several. The radioactive green eyes of the Atomic Shark, the Glowing Eyelights of Undeath of the Zombie Shark, and the Glowing Mechanical Eyes of the Robo Shark and Chip.
• Green Hill Zone: Pacific Islands, the first map in the game, is an aquatic version. It's a lush, tropical, and fairly easygoing environment, with most of it accessible once you have an L-sized shark and its most dangerous enemies being fairly tame compared to those on later maps.
• Hyperactive Metabolism: Everything your shark eats (except garbage) regenerates some of your health.
• Informed Species: The blue whales seen in some maps look more like humpbacks.
• Jet Pack: The Jet Pack item can be purchased for 100 gems, and can be upgraded several times to allow for longer flight.
• Misplaced Wildlife:
  • The South China Sea has electric eels, which live in South American swamps and rivers.
  • The Arctic Ocean map falls victim to Polar Bears and Penguins by having emperor penguins at the North Pole.
• Monstrous Seal: Snuffy the Seal, a purchasable pet seal raised by sharks.
• More Teeth than the Osmond Family: It is a game about sharks, after all. All except the Basking Shark and Whale Shark fit this to some degree, but special mention goes to Buzz for a tooth whorl that literally functions as a buzz saw capable of cutting through submarines like a can opener.
• Nested Mouths: Big Momma has this, although it's more subtle than Big Daddy in the previous game.
• Nigh-Invulnerable: Unless you have Jasper the ghost shark as a pet, are using the entire Witch set, or are in a state of gold rush, enemy ghost sharks are immune to your attacks. They can still be stunned by your laser, though.
• Non-Human Undead: Jasper, a pet ghost shark that can swim through walls.
• Nuclear Mutant:
  • The Atomic Shark, a mutated !! size shark. It has fins that have mutated into legs, and glowing green blood and eyes. Unlike other sharks, which take damage from swimming near toxic waste barrels, the Atomic Shark is instead powered up.
  • The Meltdown Shark is essentially the same but taken up another notch. In addition to being even bigger as part of the new largest tier, it has grown spikes along the tail, a second pair of eyes, and a third pair of limbs, which it uses to hold a nuclear bomb to its back. It can also charge up a Meltdown ability by eating, which fires energy bolts for a time when activated.
• Permanently Missable Content: Before you make an attempt at a fossil, make sure you have a safe way to it or at least a lot of help in case you need to fight. There's a delay between grabbing a fossil and having it registered as being discovered. If you die before the fossil is registered, the fossil will not be considered found but it won't be available to find as the game treats at is being found. This can prevent you from unlocking secret sharks.
• Prehistoric Monster: Spike the Stethacanthus, Buzz the Helicoprion, Drago the pliosaur, Echo the ichthyosaur, Big Momma the Dunkleosteus, Mr Snappy the Mosasaurus, and Megalodon the... Megalodon.
• Premium Currency: As with Hungry Shark Evolution, Gems are an example of this. They’re easier to obtain here, though, as contests often reward an amount based on your performance at a certain goal.
• Raised by Wolves: Snuffy the seal who was raised by sharks as one of their own.
• Raising the Steaks: The Zombie shark. Any sharks it eats are also zombified.
• Sea Monster:
  • Most of the extinct sharks could count. For example, the Megalodon, first shark in the !! size class, and much more powerful than all previous sharks. It can eat pink jellyfish, small mines, and other !! sharks. The Zombie Shark also appears to be a (zombified) Megalodon.
  • Drago in particular, as a Pliosaur, fits the traditional depiction of Nessie.
• Set Bonus: If you wear all the parts of a costume then you get a very powerful bonus that's often unrelated to the costume's theme. For example, the clown costume parts gives a shark a bonus to damaging bosses. But if you have the entire clown set, your pets will grown to large size.
• Sewer Gator: Not alligators, but crocodiles can be found in the sewers of the South China Sea map.
• Shout-Out:
  • The Lady Wig item description references Austin Powers Catchphrase, "Yeah Baby!"
  • The Bow Tie description is "Bow Ties are cool."
  • The Scimitar description is "An elegant weapon from a more civilized age".
  • The Mariachi Guitar description is "The rhythm is gonna get you with this Mariachi Guitar.''
  • The Killer Whale pet is named Will and recently escaped captivity.
• Sickly Green Glow: The Atomic Shark has this for blood, most visible in tubes on the back, in the eyes, and inside the throat.
• Slippy-Slidey Ice World: The Arctic Ocean map, where parts of the water's surface are covered in ice that has to be broken before you can get through it.
• Somewhere, a Mammalogist Is Crying: A Killer Whale is among the sharks that you can use.
• Spelling Bonus: The letters H-U-N-G-R-Y are placed in random locations on the level in each game. Collecting them temporarily super-sizes your shark, letting it eat anything as if a Mega Gold Rush was active. A new set of letters will appear in the level once the effect expires.
• Tail Slap: Averted with the Thresher shark. Unlike Real Life, it cannot kill or stun prey with its tail. This is instead an ability of Mr Snappy.
• Threatening Shark: The player and enemy sharks. Enemy sharks that are a higher tier than yours in particular, as they can do huge amounts of damage and are invincible outside of a Mega Gold Rush. Even the smallest sharks can be a major annoyance however, latching onto you and slowing you to a crawl for a few seconds.

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