Reality TV > Jackass: The Video Game
May 23, 2007
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Written by: Noah Sanders
First it was the television show, 'Jackass', which I absolutely couldn't get enough of. Then it was Jackass: The Movie. Again a movie that I could watch on repeat no matter how absolutely hammered I was. And then it was Jackass: The Second Movie, entertaining but so over-the-top that I was turned away from it. I just couldn't watch these grown men smash themselves in the nuts anymore. Couldn't watch another 40 year old catch a face of ass-sprayed baby powder. It was still funny, just not as. And now the oversaturation of the 'Jackass' brand name has hit a new, ridiculous level - a 'Jackass' video game.
From what I've read, the game allows players to take on the role of one of the show's characters and actually perform extreme versions of the stunts. Instead of riding rockets in to a lake, you can jump a scooter off a 50-foot building in to a pile of naked, coked up women (you actually can't). It's in the game. Every stunt these sad buffoons have ever wanted to attempt but couldn't because of the life-threatening repercussions has probably found it's way in to the game. The more a player can get his character to eat sh*t, the higher the score. "Jackass: The Video Game" even has an accurate injury meter, that tracks the brokenness of your character down to the smallest fractured bone. That actually sounds kind of cool.
Pseudo-leader Johnny Knoxville had this to say about the game:
"We're excited as all hell about it. It is kind of odd that people will take on our personas and depressing that they're going to have to do that. We've never really worked on anything like this before. This is our first video game. We just hope that our video game is as crappy as our movies.
The game will come out on all of the major systems. Once I get my hands on it, I'm just running Steve-O's drunk ass off every friggin' cliff I can find. Over and over and over and over and over again.
