Game: "Big Mutha Truckers 2"

Console: PlayStation 2; also out for PC and Xbox

Developer/publisher: Eutechnyx/THQ

Genre: Driving

Number of players: 1-2

ESRB: Mature

Premise: Ma Jackson has been arrested for tax evasion. The only way she can win her case is by hiring cousin Jacob, a big-time small-town lawyer. You are hired to find six jurors and raise the cash needed to bribe them to let Ma off.

Game play: Eutechnyx has incorporated aspects of successful game series such as "Crazy Taxi," "Grand Theft Auto" and even "Oregon Trail," added its own creativity and smothered it in kitsch and redneck humor. The result: "Big Mutha Truckers 2."

The bulk of this game requires you to commute between towns, buy items of low value and therefore low prices because of supply and demand, take them to a town where demand is high and milk the profit margins as much as possible. There's no haggling, no understanding of economics is needed, there's not even a need to switch to refrigerated trailers while carrying raw pork as cargo.

But driving isn't the only way to earn money. Each town has a casino with a different game featured, so if you're in the mood for gambling, here it is.

Commutes between towns, which take up the majority of your game time, are where the real big bucks are. Before you head off, you choose from three modes, with hilariously unfunny names such as Truck Me Harder, that determine how much time to reach your destination. The shorter your time, the bigger the prospective rewards are.

Random side missions, including damaging police cars with your trailer for a reality show and avoiding alien abduction by dodging UFO beams, will appear in your commutes. And each commute will end with a parking mini-game, where how well you put your truck in the slot determines your prize amount.

The game also features all kinds of unlockables earned through various tasks, such as talking to all six bartenders and completing all parking bonuses successfully.

The good/bad: The absolute worst thing about this game is the humor. Not only is it completely obnoxious, it's so stereotypically driven that only the lowest of the lowbrows could find it funny. I'd give examples, but I've happily forgotten them. Just imagine Larry the Cable Guy taking a Def Jam style of delivery while thinking he's witty, and there you go.

My take: With a title like "Big Mutha Truckers 2," it has to be unsubtle, and it surely is. While this game could have been a fun "Crazy Taxi"-esque game with witty dialogue and a sophisticated economics system, it fails in every aspect and is the most unnecessary sequel since "XXX: State of the Union."

Jeremy Castillo is a student at Windward Community College and editor of the college's newspaper, Ka 'Ohana.