Bully: Scholarship Edition is ready to roll! After being available for the PS2 for two years now, and Bully: Scholarship Edition being released on the Xbox 360 and Wii in March of 2008. All of Rockstar’s games are controversial in nature, but wildly entertaining and almost universally well-received by gamers. Rockstar’s Bully: Scholarship Edition will likely be the same.
Featuring exclusive content that never made it on the PS2 version 2 years ago, the PC release of Bully: Scholarship Edition includes new unlockable items, eight new missions, more characters, and four new school subjects (Music, Biology, Geography, and Math). Another edition to Bully: Scholarship Edition is the single system 2-player minigames that were added, which promises to make this an entertaining game for all types of gamers.
Check out Rockstar’s official Bully: Scholarship Edition site here:
http://www.rockstargames.com/bully/home/
Bully: Scholarship Edition Trailer
Bully: Scholarship Edition Problems on Wii and Xbox 360
Both the Wii and Xbox 360 versions of the game generally received positive reviews with IGN giving the Wii version an 8/10, while the Xbox 360 version received 8.7/10.
The Xbox 360 version of Bully: Scholarship Edition was found to be unstable on some players’ consoles, resulting in glitches, crashes, and performance issues. The problems included audio issues, animation issues, and inability to complete Music classes due to differences between the Wii and Xbox 360 controllers. The most prevalent and common problem with the game is the unexplained freezing of the console, but not music being played on a connected mp3 player or hard drive.
Bully: Scholarship Edition History
Bully is a third person action-adventure video game released by Rockstar Vancouver for the PlayStation 2 on October 17, 2006 in the United States, and October 25, 2006 in the United Kingdom. The game was re-released as Bully: Scholarship Edition on March 4, 2008 for the Wii and Xbox 360 and October 24, 2008 on PC. The Scholarship Edition was later ported to Microsoft Windows and released on October 24, 2008. The PlayStation 2 version of the game is also available in the United States as a special edition that includes a limited edition comic book and a dodgeball of the same style as the ones used in the game, with the word “Bully” embossed on it.
Bully is a sandbox game set in a school environment. The player takes control of teenage rebel, Jimmy Hopkins, who from the opening scene is revealed to be a difficult student with a criminal background. The game concerns the events that follow Jimmy being dropped off at Bullworth Academy, a fictional New England boarding school. The player is free to explore the school campus in the beginning and later on in the game the town, or to complete the main missions. The game makes extensive use of minigames. Some are used to earn money, others to improve Jimmy’s abilities or get new items.
School classes themselves are done in the form of minigames, broken into five levels of increasing difficulty. English, for example, is a word scramble minigame, and as Jimmy completes the level, he learns to apologize to bullies, deliver better taunts, apologize to prefects and finally to apologize to the police.
Jimmy Hopkins has a multitude of weapons available, although they tend to run along the lines of things a school boy might actually attain, such as a slingshot, bags of marbles, itching powder, fire crackers, stink bombs, and later in the game, a bottle rocket launcher and a potato cannon/spud cannon. He also has an assortment of vehicles to operate — mainly a skateboard, but also a scooter, a gokart(for racing), a lawn mower (for money), and bicycles.
Bully has caused controversy among parents and educators. Criticisms are due to the adult nature of previous Rockstar games, in particular, the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Hot Coffee minigame controversy and certain aspects of the game, for example, its title. Most of these criticisms were voiced before the content of the game was available to the public. In 2006, the United States-based Entertainment Software Rating Board officially gave Bully a rating of “T” (suitable for ages 13 and up), the BBFC gave Canis Canem Edit a 15 rating and the New Zealand OFLC restricted it to persons 13 years of age and over.
