Sometimes, it seems like gamers are left with a lot of guesswork thanks to some pretty obscure titles. Often, ambiguous names have nothing to do with a games or their play style. Occasionally though, there’s a game that just puts it all out there, and so we come to Jackass: The Game.

Anyone who’s seen the TV show or the Jackass movies no doubt has some expectations of what may appear in a Jackass game, and they’re probably pretty accurate. All of your favorite stunt performers (see: Jackasses) are here and so are a bunch of ridiculous and dangerous things to make them do. The game is basically a collection of mini-games in the spirit of titles like WarioWare, but with a decidedly more mature twist.

You’ll start the game in MTV Story Mode. This is sort of like your career as a Jackass. You’ll participate in 7 different episodes of the show, each of which contains five different stunts. Each stunt has certain criteria that must be met in order to clear that episode and move on to the next. You can clear the goals in three different stages – there are bronze, silver and gold awards for each mini-game. For most games, there are five separate criteria to be met. Clearing three of the five nets you a bronze, four a silver, and all five grabs the gold. Sometimes, like in the Party Boy game for example, scoring the gold is simply a matter of getting a higher score on the level.

You’ll start in episode one as Steve O, Jackass extraordinaire. While you can choose any of the five goals in an episode in whichever order you desire, the top of the list offers San Fran Trash Can, a great goal to set the tone for the rest of the game. Steve O is stuffed into a trash can at the top of a big San Francisco hill, so you can probably imagine what’s next. If you guessed “he gets pushed down the hill,” you’re absolutely correct. During this game, you’ll need to make your way down the hill and to the finish line while avoiding traffic. Of course, that’s only one of the goals. As you steer down the slope, using X to accelerate and square to brake, you can also press triangle to eject yourself. Another goal gives you the task of skidding your jackass over 20 yards along the asphalt. To get the gold, you’ll also need to roll underneath three trucks, destroy a fire hydrant, and make it to the finish line without crashing. Luckily, you can do all the objectives in separate runs, so you won’t need to pull off all five in one roll.

Subsequent goals will see you doing way more crazy stuff, some of which is inspired by you’ve seen on TV or even on the big screen before. There’s the Suburban Catapult, a giant slingshot tied between two trees in a backyard, which will have you sailing through yards and crashing through a greenhouse. You’ve got the obligatory Party Boy game, which is essentially a rhythm game that’s very well put together. You’ll shoot Johnny Knoxville (and Preston and Wee-Man) with paintball shotguns, etc.

Of course, as you may expect, the best of the games come with the things that you’d never be able to really do in real life. You’ll be riding refrigerators down a snow covered mountains, pogo-sticking on top of New York City skyscrapers. You’ll paddle a raft down a sewer, play golf with hand grenades, and even dive 20 stories into a big pile of elephant poo.

You can watch and save replays of all of your stunts, and then later edit them in Director Mode. You can splice clips together, save the shows and play them for your friends. Speaking of playing with your friends, the PSP version of the game also features online play, with both ad-hoc and infrastructure modes supported. There’s also a thing called “Puppet Mode” that allows you to load an unlocked Jackass and play around with their character model, changing their expression and such.

This game is pure fun, and completely over the top at all times. There are only a couple of games where the controls don’t feel just about perfect. The graphics and sound are well done also, even in the early preview version of the game. It runs on Renderware, so it’s got a little bit of a GTA-style look to it, and it works very well. The humor is nonstop, the action is fast paced and stays fresh the whole way through, and this game delivers just about anything you’d want from a Jackass game – including, of course, a ton of original pranks, stunts and videos. Check it out for your PSP or PS2 soon, and be sure to stay tuned to Game Almighty for our full review and any breaking news – or bones.