Bully Scholarship Edition
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
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars PG GTA?
you take the characters from grand theft auto time travel back in time and put them in school. thats what you get from Bully, so if you like the GTA style games, you’ll probually going to like this game. Im not even a GTA fan and I like this game. come on seriously when you where in high school I know you wanted to do some of the things you can do in this game. my only disapointment with this game is the “authority” figures. at least in grand theft auto you can kill the cops, I tried almost everything to take them down in bully, if you can get them down with three fire crackers something is wrong. Also when I try to run from them I end up walking in stead of running…busted LOL but seriously if your thinking about buying it, may as well its only [...] bucks.
4 Stars Think GTA, just replace the guns with slingshots and cars with bicycles…
It took me a long time to finally sit down and play this game because I simply thought it was a “kid’s version of GTA”. And to be honest, that’s what it pretty much is….but it’s fun as hell! Instead of hitting the streets taking down drug dealers and the mob you’re storming the halls of a local boarding school taking out every clique who crosses you and having immense fun doing it.
The premise may sound pretty childish as a sub par rendition of a GTA story but it’s actually very fun and interesting, as Rockstar has not really developed a sandbox game quite like this. There’s many reused devices from the GTA games (such as getting busted and losing your weapons or mission markers) but at the same time there’s enough unique things in it distract you from them.
Graphic-wise, I think this one of the more beautiful games Rockstar has released on the 360. If you have an HDTV, you can really appreciate this, as everything looks much more colorful and vibrant than the regular SD version. However, whether you play it in HD or not, it does look nice.
The story is pretty straightforward, as you’ll have to run around the school doing missions for each of the school’s main cliques who will eventually grow to respect you as you do more missions for them. Admittedly, it is not a long game but the missions are fun enough and vary in difficulty and length to provide some variety. This version benefits by having even more missions than the PS2 version, so that increases the longevity by a bit.
The biggest thing I look for in games these days besides length would be replay value and to be honest, this is probably the weakest aspect of the game. Once you complete the game, there isn’t too much to do besides running around the school and town causing havoc. There are small things to do like bicycle races, paper routes, yearbook photos, and other miscellaneous tasks to do but none of them require much time. As mentioned before, running around at any given time causing trouble can prove to be a great source of amusement but that can get old real quick.
Overall, I give it a 4 out of 5, as its great in everything but is ultimately too short of a game and doesn’t have much replay value to merit a perfect score. If you love the GTA games, I highly recommend at least renting it if the concept still makes you hesitate. If you haven’t played a GTA game, by all means don’t let that discourage you at this game can be appreciated by anyone.
4 Stars fun but short and a bit repetitive
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.
4 Stars I love this game!!!!
I bought this game when it came out on PS2 and for some reason, I just couldn’t get into it. Fast forward a couple years later. I decided to give this game another chance, and I’m glad I did. I had tons of fun playing this game. From the story to the humor, I did not want to put my controller down. It’s not a perfect game, as the control can be a little wonky sometimes but the entire world that takes place offers so much exploration I didn’t care about the flawed control. I highly recommend this game. I actually liked it more than GTA IV.
5 Stars Great game
I really enjoyed this. Lots of different things to do and not always the same thing over and over. 2 thumbs up!
