The Bottom Line
- There's a good variety of "stunts" to try.
- Well design for short play sessions.
- There didn't really seem to be much point to it.
- It's really, really obnoxious.
Description
- ESRB rated M -- published by Red Mile -- game profile -- screenshots
- Graphics: Somewhere in the middle. It certainly doesn't look crappy, but the visuals didn't blow me away, either.
- Sound: The rock soundtrack was all right, and the sfx amusing, but I ended up muting after a little while.
- Gameplay: Controls were pretty easy to get, and the basic play simple and fun, but quickly got repetitive.
- Multiplayer: Multiplayer is included, but I didn't get a chance to test it out.
- Replay value: Depends on what you like; I probably won't be picking it up much, but others will find it addictive.
- Recommendation: If you like the MTV show and/or the movie, you'll like the game. If you don't, you won't.
Guide Review - Jackass: The Game
My low expectations, in fact, seemed to be confirmed many times over as the game opens with a close-up of a cow dropping a steaming cowpat. Then we get treated to a scene of one of the jackasses doing pushups with a fresh cowpat directly under his face. He falls into it. Hilarity, I assume, is meant to ensue. I almost turned the game off at that point, but I had promised to give it a fair shot.
Fortunately, with the gratuitous grossness out of the way, Jackass: The Game is actually pretty fun. Not pay-full-price fun (and for me, maybe not even bargain-bin fun), but still fun. The single-player game offers a bunch of mini-games in which your objective is to gather footage for the MTV show. For example, in one game you fling one of the Jackass guys across several back yards using a giant catapult. There are five objectives, and the more you get, the better you score, but you need at least three. The objectives include breaking a glass greenhouse, landing in a pool, and so on. You can get bonuses for injuring the character as much as possible.
If that sounds like a blast to you, then this is probably your kind of game. For me, it was fun, but not so much fun that I'm really going to change my mind about Jackass in general. I gave it an average score in number of stars, because without the added cool factor of the brand name, it really is just an average game. For some, the Jackass name might push it above average, for others, below.
