Product Description

The Rockstar tradition of groundbreaking, original gameplay and humorous tongue-in-cheek storytelling invades an entirely new setting: the schoolyard.

As a mischievous schoolboy, you'll stand up to bullies, get picked on by teachers, play pranks, win or lose the girl, and ultimately learn to navigate the obstacles of the worst school around, Bullworth Academy - a corrupt and crumbling prep school with an uptight facade.

The story follows 15-year-old Jimmy Hopkins, a teenager who's been expelled from every school he's ever attended. Left to fend for himself after his mother abandons him at New England boarding school of Bullworth Academy to go on her fifth honeymoon, Jimmy has a whole year at Bullworth ahead of him, working his way up the social ladder of this demented institution of supposed learning, standing up for what he thinks is right and taking on the liars, cheats and snobs who are the most popular members of the student body and faculty. If Jimmy can survive the school year and outsmart his rivals, he could rule the school.

Ready yourself for a hilarious return to campus living with Bully, the outrageously funny game title for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft.

Accept missions to earn all-new rewards and achievements; your choices can affect the outcome in positive or negative ways

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #645 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Rockstar Games
• Released on: 2008-03-04
• ESRB Rating: Teen
• Platform: Xbox 360
• Dimensions: 2.00 pounds

Features

• Over 30 hours of content, including eight new missions, four new classes, 45 new lessons, 100 voiced characters, mini games, unlockables and collectibles
• Defend the weaker students by inflicting wedgies on their oppressors
• Keep your cool and make a good impression on the ladies
• Interact with jocks, nerds, preppies, greasers, teachers, townies and carnies
• Dominate the school with a friend in two-player mini games

Amazon.com
Retaining the wit and deep gameplay of the previously released PS2 Bully title, Bully: Scholarship Edition takes place in the fictional New England boarding school of Bullworth Academy and tells the story of 15-year-old Jimmy Hopkins as he experiences the highs and lows of adjusting to a new school. Capturing the hilarity and awkwardness of adolescence perfectly, Bully: Scholarship Edition pulls the player into its cinematic and engrossing world set in the most vile and sadistic setting yet in a Rockstar videogame: the schoolyard. Laugh and cringe as you stand up to bullies, get picked on by teachers, play pranks on malicious kids, win or lose the girl, and ultimately learn to navigate the obstacles of the fictitious Bullworth Academy.

Bully: Scholarship Edition comes to the Xbox 360, boasting new content, next generation graphics, and two player mini-games that make this title appealing to previous Bully players and a whole new audience.

New Content
8 new missions, 4 new classes, hilarious new characters, added two-player mode, new unlockables, new rewards and achievements.

Variety
With 82 missions, 45 lessons, loads of mini games and collectibles, Bully provides over 30 hours of entertainment.

Characters
Over 100 voiced characters to socially interact with among several social groups: jocks, nerds, preppies, greasers, teachers, townies, carnies and of course girls.

Choice
You're in charge. Decide whether you have a positive or negative effect when interacting or accepting missions; you can say hello to fellow classmates or deliver mean wedgies.

Technological Upgrades:

• Use of next gen-graphical techniques including high resolution textures and dynamic lighting & shadow system.
• Faster frame speed makes the game smoother and more responsive.
• Recreated and updated over 3000 textures and character models by hand to bring up to next gen standards.
• Improved full screen effects, including dynamic glow FX, improved depth of field, and heat and fire FX.
• Textures uprezzed by 4x over the original Bully for PS2.
• More pedestrians and vehicles are able to load at once which improves the visual variety of the game.
• Mini-games, including classes are easily accessible through the menu system.

Customer Reviews

Good and BAD!
Let me start off by saying that i had NEVER played any of the previous BULLY editions before. I bought this game because it got my atention, i mean who would'nt want to go to highschool again and get into all that trouble for at least an hour a day, that's why it's a very cool, well thought out game, i must admit, this is just another gem in ROCKSTAR'S case of precious creations. Then comes the BAD part, i had NEVER used the XBOX Live service before and so i did, i connected my console to the internet via my switch and i was soon downloading demos and other stuff when i find that, since i was connected to the internet, i could download an update for this game, well i did...and for 6 days i could not play the game itself because of the patch that i came to find out ROCKSTAR had developed because of some glitches in the game itself, the glitches before the patch were choppy sound, unsynched audio, and other typical stuff, but as soon as i downloaded the PATCH, it all went down the crapper, it would not load, it would get stuck, anything but play, so i just put it back in the box and forgot about it. After about 6 days, i tried it once again and it worked like a chram, really good to. Now i have been playing it once again and for hours on end on the weekends and it's just a great game, a definite must have.

Worth the Money?
Yes! I purchased this game (I'm an adult female of 24 years old) and I have yet to put it down. Here's some pros and cons for the readers of this review...

Pros:

#1. This game is one of the few that really make you think. I was a fan of Grand Theft Auto IV as well but while this could be a long distance relative to that game, Bully has a bit more than your regular shooting and killing game. As Jimmy, you have to go to the classes in order to graduate the school. Now, I've been out of school for a couple of years now and some of them really make you ponder. English and Math were the hardest ones and I still haven't beaten the final Biology class.

#2. This game has a "T for Teen" rating but I wouldn't have given it that. The only thing that might make parents a little wary is the fact that once you reach level 3 you have the ability (ability meaning "you can but don't have to") kiss other boys. Other than that fun little tidbit, the weapons are child based. Sling shots, stink bombs, itching powder, potato launcher, etc. etc. In fact, when you shoot another kid with your slingshot (if you shoot a child or girl, you are immediately "punished" by the man)they are knocked out instead of killed like in other games. I would be completely comfortable letting my 10 year old nephew play this game without any worries.

#3. The tasks are relatively easy. Even though the game doesn't offer an "easy, medium, hard" choice, the missions are somewhat easy to figure out. Again, another plus for small kids (or adult women whose last game she played was Donkey Kong on the Super Nintendo).

Cons:

#1. Loading Time. The loading time on this game is a big buzz kill. I'm not a fan of loading times at all but Bully seems to overdo it by alot. Everytime you enter into a building it loads? That's quite alot when you are on a mission and you have to enter four or five different buildings and everytime you walk through a door you have to sit through a 30 second to a minute worth of loading time.

#2. Glitches. There are quite a few of them in this game. Little things where your school clock doesn't show up and then you get busted for violating curfew. Another one is where you swing at an offender and for some reason or another you don't connect. That one usually shows up in missions and you either have to start the mission over or turn your game off all together. Maybe it's me but that does seem to irritate me.

#3. Some of the classes are too hard. I know in my pro section I said that the classes teach you and that it is good for you but come on people? 2 and a half minutes to disect a pig into seven pieces?? I still can't beat that biology class. Arggh!

All in all? I give Bully an A-. Easily one of the best games I have seen but there are a few minor issues that cause some irritation.

Good at $30, definite buy.
This is an open world game featuring you, a 15 year old smart- mouthed, trouble making kid. The story is that you are dumped off at this huge academy, because your mom is going on a honeymoon with her new husband, which your character hates. The story lasts around 13 hours, but an easy 15 can be played afterwards with all of the mini games and things such as that. This game has a very fun story and is one of the funniest games I have ever played. The only real strike is the gameplay can become a little to repetitive at times, and the difficulty never really picks up from the start to the end. All in all this is an excellent open world style of game and is one you should seriously consider adding to your collection.

Overall 8.0-8.5