The mechanics are fucking stellar but my god does the game constantly want to stop you with some of the most obnoxious and annoying mission structure and design within any of these games.
The cameos/a good chunk of the guest characters are obnoxious and alllllll control so poorly. Swear to god it feels like they're all just slipping and sliding around on their guest vehicles in ways that just suck ass to play with limited move sets that have nothing to do with skateboarding. The constant "find the thing" missions are just so tedious and repeated ad nauseum in ways that just suck. Feels like this game wants to stop you in your tracks as much as possible with missions like "FIND THE GRAFITTI TAGS" and "CLIMB TO THE BILLBOARD TO TAG IT". It's wild as hell.
As for the story, listen I dig Jackass, I dig the cast of Jackass (for the most part) and I can get into a fun dumb goofy skate story like in American Wasteland or Underground. The problem here is just that it's lamely executed. Jackass without real actual people being affected just don't hit the same and all you're left with is boredom and empty crass that doesn't hit.
If the gameplay wasn't so good and the maps weren't mostly so quality I'd probably think this was one of the worst in the series. Feels like it just lives to waste parts of your time in between some challenges and ideas that do seriously shine. Thank god classic mode is there to get around a lot of it but this is such a disappointing way to follow up Underground.
The cameos/a good chunk of the guest characters are obnoxious and alllllll control so poorly. Swear to god it feels like they're all just slipping and sliding around on their guest vehicles in ways that just suck ass to play with limited move sets that have nothing to do with skateboarding. The constant "find the thing" missions are just so tedious and repeated ad nauseum in ways that just suck. Feels like this game wants to stop you in your tracks as much as possible with missions like "FIND THE GRAFITTI TAGS" and "CLIMB TO THE BILLBOARD TO TAG IT". It's wild as hell.
As for the story, listen I dig Jackass, I dig the cast of Jackass (for the most part) and I can get into a fun dumb goofy skate story like in American Wasteland or Underground. The problem here is just that it's lamely executed. Jackass without real actual people being affected just don't hit the same and all you're left with is boredom and empty crass that doesn't hit.
If the gameplay wasn't so good and the maps weren't mostly so quality I'd probably think this was one of the worst in the series. Feels like it just lives to waste parts of your time in between some challenges and ideas that do seriously shine. Thank god classic mode is there to get around a lot of it but this is such a disappointing way to follow up Underground.
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so true so true. Bigfoot rocket skating was a little kino I gotta admit.
i agree on all points, but the soundtrack has Faith No More's absolute knockout jam Midlife Crisis so i must give it my highest score for that.
Deadly Sinners on that soundtrack almost got me the soundtrack is REALLY that good.
BlazingWaters
1 year ago
also somethin somethin Bull mission