Jackass: The Game has both local and online multiplayer, with four-player support locally and two-player support online. It's better than the multiplayer support found in the PlayStation 2 version of Jackass: The Game, by virtue of having online support, but it still doesn't fully capitalize on the game's multiplayer potential. Another feature not found in the PS2 version is the director mode, which allows you to save stunts you've performed, choose from multiple camera angles on select stunts, and string them together into full episodes. That a number of the stunts don't have multiple camera angles to cut to kind of limits what you can do with the director mode, though the ability to export really high-res images and videos from your stunts redeems it.
There's also some multiplayer options, including round-robin and random round-robin, as well as the provocatively named "ass-to-ass" mode that lets two players go at it in a small selection of stunts. The multiplayer options are a little spartan, and you get the sense that they shaped the modes to accommodate the stunts they had, instead of making the stunts with multiplayer in mind in the first place.
There's also no shortage of intentional vomit in Jackass: The Game.
The visuals are stripped down, too, though the ugly, bland, back-alley locations actually end up helping the game look more like the show. Nearly the entire cast of Jackass regulars, minus skater-turned-reality-TV-star Bam Margera, are in here, and while their likenesses are generally bang-on, all of their voice clips sound stiff and stagey, which goes against the unscripted, casual feel of the show. The soundtrack ends up being much more complementary, including noise from bands like the Anti-Nowhere League, the Circle Jerks, CKY, and Nashville Pussy.
Jackass was the ultimate example of "don't try this at home" television, making it fertile ground for a video game adaptation. Even though it's missing the schadenfreude element that permeated the show, Jackass: The Game has the right attitude, and it still manages to elicit the occasional chuckle with its sophomoric hijinks.
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