Bully : Scholarship Edition

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The popular Canis Canem Edit has been relaunched for the Xbox 360 under the no nonsense name of “Bully”. The story line is the same as the Playstation 2 version, you are a troubled teenager who in the UK would just be passed off as having ADHD. The new kid at a hostile school, you arrive and are instantly picked on more than a dwarf at a midget convention. Battling your way through the social hierarchy enables you to play more demanding missions, and as the game is based in a boarding school, you have to attend lessons as well. The game is from the makers of Grand Theft Auto, Rockstar, and whilst the similarities are definitely there, the feel of the game is completely different. Rather than knowing that being caught will end in your carcass looking like swiss cheese, you will get told off.. its just not quite the same. The storyline is still good enough however for you to have the want to play ‘just one more mission’ and then to realise you should have gone to bed 4 hours ago. Whilst the graphics might not match up with other 360 titles, they are good enough, but it does feel like there hasn’t been much progress since the Playstation 2 version. Anyway, aside for the fact your main accomplice in the game is as annoying as the people who WrItE LikE tHIs, the banter between the jocks and geeks, and all other characters are generally funny. The only problem with the school setting really is the lack of variation from day to day. The wake up, go to class, do a mission, wedgie a nerd, go to class, get started on but end up beating up a bully, do a mission, go to bed routine limits what you actually want to do. Miss class and the teachers who always seem to be mulling about outside will ‘bust you’. Now it might just be me, but if the teachers put that effort into teaching I doubt the school would have its problems. Although the game was never intended to be a sequel, some owners of the PS2 version might be tempted to buy this one too. Don’t be. It’s the same game, just put in a pretty green box and given a few extra missions. To everyone else? It’s a game that will keep you going for a while and give you a few cheap laughs, especially when you lean how to put kick me signs on peoples backs. Scores, 1 word sum up and buy or not to buy.. 7/10 – B+ - Buy