Jackass: The Game
- Jackass: The Game (2008 on Nintendo DS)
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The Jackass crew (minus Bam Margera) is in a jam, while getting ready to begin shooting for their much anticipated TV return, their one and only camera man is injured and it is up to you to get the show going. Take over as your favorite Jackass characters in a series of stunts to earn money to complete the episodes and get footage for the new season.
To earn money, complete certain tasks or injure yourself which will pay big money, once you earn enough money, your episode will be complete and you can move on to another. Completing episodes will unlock other characters, you get to start out with the core players (Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Ryan Dunn and Chris Pontius), while Wee-Man has his own mini-games, called Wee-Games which have ones like Roof Top Cart Stop, Poo Shower and Wee Tattoo.
Once you complete a stunt in MTV Story mode, you can replay it in Challenge mode and replay the level with new challenges, doing so will earn you more money that you can earn in Jackass-Mart, to unlock costumes, props, more characters to play and classic clips from the TV show. You can also go head to head with a buddy in the Wee Games or compete in a Round Robin up to four players (PS2). The PSP version offers multiplayer through WiFi. Crazy game with a ton of fun stunts to play and has an insane injury system which ranges from anything like turf burn all the way up to broken necks.
The PSP version supports the editing and exporting of replays. The PS2 version contains more detailed environments, including pedestrians to annoy during the stunts, and an expanded Bail-Out feature, where points are scored based on how many injuries the character sustains.
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The crass is always greener on the other side of the fence, you know, the side that is full of money
The Good
The Simpsons is way better than Family Guy for one important reason: the Simpsons is funny because it uses humor in its comedy. The Family Guy has none of that. Comedy requires timing and wit; the Family Guy requires no timing nor wit, and in fact thrives on the absence of it. Superfluous cultural references and stretching a joke so far past its limit into awkward silence to illicit laughter does not make for good humor.
You know, this reminds me of the time⌠BEGIN FLASHBACK (Peter Griffin is watching TV; the Simpsons are on. ) Peter Griffin: âHey, I can do that, but better! Only my show will be easier to laugh at because it wonât need to be funny!â (I know thatâs a stoneâs throw away from the Anna Nicole show tagline, but look where she is now.)
Thatâs right, things have gotten easier over the years. Popular music has evolved from people who can sing well to people who canât sing well to people who donât sing at all. Dancing to popular music has evolved from performing learned moves with a partner to dancing freestyle with a partner to dancing freestyle by yourself to dressing up like a slut and not even moving.
Humor is just that way. For something to be funny now, it doesnât need humor, it just needs to be crass. Being crass is the idea that you perceive some kind of visible line drawn in the moral code of the fabric of society, and cross it. Itâs being the rebel that dares to invoke the taboo. In some instances there is a degree of social commentary that provides an artistic purpose and is contextually correct, as South Park does so well from time to time; however, the biggest joke in that case is the fact the people will watch episode after episode of the crappiest and cheapest animation to produce.
This is exactly the case for Jackass. This old MTV show is based on the premise that rich white American boys who have never fought in a war perform cruel stunts upon themselves and each other to prove their bravery. These nihilist young men use their youth and immaturity to inspire and blame their actions which arenât just stupid, but extremely stupid.
Youâll laugh your ass off. Yes you will. And itâs all because itâs not humor, itâs crass. The geniuses at MTV arenât sitting on a mountain of cocaine for nothing. They know that makes good TV. Youâll notice on a second viewing that the camera spends as much time on other members of the Jackass crew as they do on the âyoung, dumb, and full of cumâ lame-wad doing the stunt; thatâs because their reaction and laughter is even more important than the stunt. They trick you into being part of the gang, so when you laugh at that idiot thereâs a bunch of guys to laugh along.
This is buddy humor: one doesnât laugh because itâs witty or smart, one laughs because itâs cruel. Chicks wonât ever learn. See, when you go out drinking and your friend had too much and is sick, youâre not supposed to comfort them as they yak into the toilet. Youâre not supposed to hold their head and hand them a tissue. No, youâre supposed to laugh at them when they barf. Laugh and point. Teabagging isnât just restricted to FPSâs. State of the art light-weight cameras are installed on your cell phone so that you can take a picture of your testicles nestled upon your buddyâs forehead when heâs passed out unconscious..
Funny? Milk out of nose funny. Humor? This is Peter Sellers if he was restricted to only express himself with bottle rockets and horse semen. This is funny without humor.
The Bad
The previous discussion was required to describe what kind of phenomenon Jackass is, and to explain how it has become a bad licensed game. Really bad. A collection of mini-games presented as a party game is useless and not fun if they are all bad, frustrating, pointless but most of all not funny.
Thatâs the worst crime of all: if you canât be witty, smart, expressive or emotive, well as least be funny. This of course includes being crass. However, this game isnât even crass. Having been released years after Jackass was even relevant to unimportant demographics like people over 39, the rehashed stunts look quaint and nostalgic. Itâs a sure sign of the Pop-calypse when MTV has become your granddad.
Itâs not hard to be crass. But what was crass 10 years ago isnât crass now, and I would venture it is getting harder and harder to meet the crass needs of todayâs ravenous young. This sentimental ode to retching and testicle kicking is worsened by the fact that Jackass: The Game has no soul or character, and has only two redeeming values:
1) Bam Margera, having lent out his likeness to another game, does not appear. If you didnât know, Mr. Margera is superior to his fellow Jackasses because if you kick him in his vagina it wonât affect his non-existent testicles. Mr. Margera is not worth raping in jail because heâd enjoy it so much heâd convince you to leave your babyâs mother. Hey man, if your way to trick chicks into having sex with you is by crying, whoâs to say thatâs wrong?
2) An unlockable VO movie that shows Steve-O as an old, old man reminds us gamers of the redeeming value of life. Itâs apparent he has partied several life times worth of cocaine and easy women and that now his greatest joy in life is to experience a regular bowel movement and a nice nap. Steve-O deserves a most glorious death, not the tepid mediocrity he seems destined for. Do not go gentle into the good night!
Because I believe in constructive criticism, I will now outline a game treatment I just thought of that will be true to Jackass, hilariously crass, and a perfect party game for white kids in middle America with disposable income (the MTV crowd):
Jackass: The Game by lasttoblame
This is an adventure game of the traditional point and click variety. You play as one of the Jackasses in somebodyâs middle-class suburban home. The whole Jackass crew is there, and there are daring you to pull a stunt within the allotted time. The objective is to discover the most outrageous thing you can do with the items you are provided. Remember those crazy inventory puzzles that had to attach mice to brooms to open doors? Well, in this case itâs to create the most disgusting substance for someone to ingest, or to find the most outrageous place to put your penis into. Points are awarded for the biggest laugh, bonus points per square meter of surface area covered with bodily fluid. Needless to say, a lot of R and D would be spent on puke texture mapping and crotch kicking collision detecting.
Fuck! Is it so hard?
The Bottom Line
Jackass wouldnât exist if there wasnât âmoralâ line in the sand to cross; but as there is, the factions on both sides use this border just use it to polarize society and make dough off you. The Jackass gang arenât just idiots, theyâre very rich idiots.
PlayStation 2 · by lasttoblame (414) · 2008
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Bam Margera
Bam Margera was going to make an appearance in the game, but it was ruled out when copyright issues came up due to his involvement with Activision and the Tony Hawk series. However, he does appear in the extras sections doing voice recording for the game at the time.
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Game added November 30, 2007. Last modified September 24, 2024.