Rockstar’s “BULLY” video game

I don’t know what is more disappointing:  that you cannot play PS2 games on the PS3 or that there won’t be a BULLY game for the PS3 or a sequel. At least, some people who have worked at GameStop stores in my area have said they’ve heard nothing of it…yet. That’s got to be one of the best video games I’ve played on the PS2! I already miss playing it, but I sold my PS2 & all the games for it for trade-in for other games on our PlayStation 3. A ‘Scholarship Edition’ had been released for the X-Box 360 not too long ago. But no plans, as of yet, had been made for the PlayStation 3. I hope they do, I would thoroughly enjoy it!

Named “Canis Canem Edit” in the U.K., BULLY sets you as Jimmy Hopkins, a 15 year old roughhouser who is only standing up to schoolyard bullies, but gets into too much trouble for it and has, consequently, been kicked out of other schools for it. Having been sent to the toughest school in the U.S., Bullworth Academy, he feels this may be it for him…..unless he can turn the tables on the bullies, here, and be given a chance to defend himself. Your job, in the game as Jimmy, is to navigate Bullworth Academy, and the surrounding areas, and get through school, pass, and get on with your life……..or so you thought. You learn, throughout the game, you are being set up by the most diabolical student ever known in academia: Gary Smith. With the help of young Peter Kowalski, you need to uncover the truth behind Gary’s scheming, and earn the trust of all the cliques in Bullworth Academy, help the teachers, pass your assignments and classes, and make yourself known in town as a good guy….for a change. But it won’t be a trip in the park! It will seem, at first, that “this school rewards bullies and jerks!”

Chemistry class helps you gains certain weapons like firecrackers and stink bombs, gym class helps you with self-defense moves for wrestling, and the local drunk bum behind the school teaches you more fighting moves – particularly military martial arts. Earn money, as well, running errands for students and teachers alike; as well as getting odd jobs on the outside. For those who have played other Rockstar games like my favorite “GTA: Vice City”, it is pretty much in the same vein, except you just knock out people, not kill them.

Well, until it is released on the PlayStation 3, I suppose I will have to find it on the PC instead. Out of 5 stars, I give this game 4½. Rated “T” for TEEN. With rude humor, violence, mild language, and some mature suggestions, it does the trick in being something of a ‘schock-value’ game.

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