Jackass: The Game Coming to PSP
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Jackass: The Game, previewed at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles earlier this month, lets players perform stunts similar to those in the TV series, which have involved riding in shopping trolleys and the "Human Wrecking Ball".
The game is due out in November for a handheld and a home console – possibly the PlayStation and the PlayStation Portable, though Sidhe will not confirm this.
Mr Wynands expects to do even better with Jackass, a TV series that's almost a cultural phenomenon with young males in North America, where it still pulls in viewers four years after the last series was filmed.
Jackass was a magnet for both viewers and controversy during its three-year run on US-cable network MTV. Though it wrapped up in 2002 it has been kept alive in reruns, including on New Zealand's C4 music station.
AdvertisementAdvertisementCritics blamed the show for encouraging young people to participate in dangerous stunts, especially as it grew in popularity.
A Jackass movie was released in 2002 containing stunts and uncensored clips that weren't allowed on TV. It cost $US5 million to make and earned more than $US60 million in North America alone.
"We're trying to create a game that's true to the licence," says Mr Wynands, who says he's a fan of the show's stunts. "They involve a certain amount of physical endangerment, but nobody's head is going to get blown off with a shotgun. Jackass isn't about that."
Jackass director Jeff Tremaine is helping to design the game. So far the game's virtual stunts include rolling down a hill in a garbage can trying to avoid traffic and driving bumper cars on top of a skyscraper. Others are titled Bus Surfing, Grenade Golf, and Extreme Unicycling.
There'll also be a "director mode", letting players save their stunts and replay them with several camera angles and trade them with friends.
