The game starts at Mrs. Puff's Boating School, where it's the last test of the year. SpongeBob prepares to take the test. Mrs. Puff tells him how to drive the right way, then she tells him to drive without assistance.
SpongeBob got worried and ended up crashing, making him fail the test. As a result, he is upset and is sitting outside of boating school. A bus stops near him, and a shark steps off and introduces himself as Seymour Scales. After SpongeBob explains he has failed his driving test, Seymour informs SpongeBob he was a driving instructor and about his D.R.I.V.E. course. Seymour explains his course consist of five classes: Destruction, Recklessness, Impairment, Velocity, and Escape the point of the course is to show what a bad driver is so SpongeBob could improve on it. Seymour offers to let SpongeBob take his course for 15 clams.
Soon, SpongeBob's friends learn what was going on and offer to help him pass. However, when SpongeBob got his license, Mrs. Puff arrives and informs him the license is not real and that he was tricked. Seymour enters his vehicle and tries to escape, but SpongeBob follows after him. SpongeBob bashes Seymour's vehicle, as random items fall out of Seymour's trunk, stopping/slowing SpongeBob down.
SpongeBob ends up winning, while Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy restrain Seymour. SpongeBob is upset that it was a scam, but Patrick tells him he can still take Mrs. Puff's driving school again.
Gameplay[]
The main genre of the game is a destruction derby, with racing as a sub-genre. Players can play as their favorite SpongeBob characters and drive boats to smash opponents. The main gameplay is divided into five sub-genres each forming the acronym D.R.I.V.E.
Game Modes[]
Destruction - All participants must smash each other to collect the most fallen boat parts.
Recklessness - Players must smash and perform different actions to obtain D.R.I.V.E points.
Recklessness Velocity - Same as Recklessness, however, the player must survive and finish the race to get their score to be recorded.
Impairment - A "last one standing' mode where all participants must push each other into pits.
Velocity - A standard "race to the finish" mode.
Escape - Players must survive waves of enemies. Finishing a wave of enemies within the set time will receive a full boat repair for the next wave.
The game even features a multiplayer mode and a replay saving system so the player can watch their favorite replays. A maximum of only five replays can be saved.
An Xbox 360 version of the game was in development by Left Field Productions, but was cancelled, likely following the studio closure in 2011. An unplayable prototype of the game from November 2010 was found in 2023.[1]
Seymour's line "I woulda pulled it off, too, if it wasn't for Mrs. Puff's meddling around!" is a reference to Scooby-Doo.
This is the first SpongeBob SquarePants video game to use the 2009-2023Nickelodeon logo on the box art.
This was the last SpongeBob SquarePants video game to have the PlayTHQ logo.
This is the only SpongeBob SquarePants video game on Wii to use the Wii Wheel.
