The game gets a good amount of mileage out of its stunts by giving you a number of objectives within each of them. Sometimes they're just tiered, score-based objectives, though often they're diametrically opposed to one another, requiring you to approach the stunts in radically different ways in order to complete them. Still, even if you work to complete every last objective, which you don't need to actually finish the season, the whole thing shouldn't take but a couple of hours. Outside of the season you can play the challenge mode, where the objectives are generally harder and you can earn cash to unlock extras like props, character models, and clips from the show. 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.
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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Where to buy
Jackass the Game (PlayStation 2):
$11.95
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