Bully: Scholarship Edition

This Game seems like its ok to me it’s alot like GTA. I like how you can opt to skip class Its like GTA is a teen world. It would be a nice litle game to come put before GTA and GTA is like the teens adult life now all rockstar needs to do is come out with a baby version and an old Man Version that’d be nice Thanks Rockstar you guys keep doing it!!!!!!!!
Rating: 5 / 5

I played the PS2 version of Bully when it came out and it turned out to be one of my very favorite games, so needless to say I was looking forward to the expanded Xbox360 version. The game was obviously improved with more classes and missions and playing is as fun as it was in the original and even more challenging. My problem is that the game has proven to be a technical nightmare. Several of the missions and classes seem to have bugs in them and the game has completely frozen up my console half a dozen times in the three days I’ve been playing it. Executives at Rockstar Games have said that the problem is with older model Xbox360 consoles, but my system is an Xbox360 Pro Bundle that was only bought in Dec. ‘07. Obviously I made a mistake to order this game as soon as it came out, and I can only hope that Rockstar comes up with a satisfactory solution to these issues, either through a downloadable patch or a disc replacement, in short order. My advice on this game is to hold off getting it until these issues have been resolved.
Rating: 2 / 5

The game started off good but I found it to be a little repetitive and the city was too small. Overall the game was fun but after a few hours you will get the hang of this game and nothing new shows up. The game lasts about 14 hours at most and can be played through by anyone as the skill level is very minimal.

Not a bad game and if you get it for around $[...] it’s well worth it.
Rating: 4 / 5

Having played some of GTA IV and not wanting to have so much questionable material around my wife and 2 boys, I thought I’d give this game a try in the hopes that it would be fun yet appropriate for all ages. Developer Rockstar did create a city within which you can travel and explore, as well as interact with different characters. I loved the different personalities you come across during your time in school. The voice work for the game is superb, and the writing is very clever. The graphics are pretty good for a game that was originally released on PS2, and I had a great time with the mini-games that occur whenever you actually go to class.

What kept this game from being great fun to play was the amount of repetition in the game play. Each mission had me running around the map to aquire or deliver some item with different bullies or nerds getting in my way as I went. This broke down into fighting with whomever was in my way prior to completing the mission, and then avoiding the school proctors or law enforcement on my way back to the “safe house”. There were a few missions that deviated from this theme, but for the most part, it seemed pretty repetitive.

If it’s one of the few games you own, you’ll probably get quite a bit of gameplay out of it as there are lots of little details to experience in your time around town and in school. However, if you don’t like a lot of repetition, and you own several other games that are seeking your time, this one might end up just being a 10 hour diversion.
Rating: 3 / 5

I played Bully on PS2 before, back in college, and had a reasonably good time with it. I did think it was a bit repetitive, and perhaps a little juvenile, and by that I mean immature, easy and generally aimed more at bratty 14-year-olds than hardcore gamers. Regardless, I was quite excited when I heard aboout Bully moving to the more powerful XBox 360 engine – the possibilities were limitless. I imagined this game where you start off as a complete dork, and then by being cunning, sneaky, and perhaps completing certain missions, you slowly become the one bullying the dorks.

Well, as you can probably guess, that plot-line turned out to stay firmly planted in my perhaps overly eager imagination – in reality, Bully’s plot-line remains highly implausible. You basically try to stop bullying… by being a bully yourself, to everyone in the school.

Well, okay – you start off as a kid outside Bullworth Academy grounds – and for a while, you can’t even get in. Once the school doors open, you get accepted by the bullies, and then the fun starts. There are different missions to complete, and the writing is often quite witty; it’s just that the general story-line doesn’t really make sense. You get reactions from people – adoration from dorks who want to kiss you (yes, both sexes), praise by fellow bullies, and if you dress in certain clothes, laughter (even from the dorks!) – and in a way the story progresses, but I never really got the feeling that one thing led to another, in a progressive way that made sense.

But there are many good points. The graphics have been enhanced, and are suitably varied. You get the whole town of Bullworth to explore and cause trouble in, and it provides a helluva lot of nifty little side-tracks. All the characters look different. You get to complete fun missions; and you have the choice of whether or not you want to skip a class. I attended most of my classes, and so far it seems to have paid off with special bonus points.

So while the story gets a bit tedious, there are enough worthy moments for any fan of the previous Bully installments – or any action/adventure game – to get Bully and have a blast.
Rating: 4 / 5