Release Date:
USA:31st December 2007.
UK:5th February 2007.
Bully Scholarship Edition Canis Canem Edit.
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 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 Bullworth 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 debut title from Rockstar Vancouver, available exclusively for PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system this October.
Scholarship Edition won't be free for a handful of extremely promising students, though it may be taken away from you if your grades slip. It will also bring one of the PlayStation 2's best titles to the Wii and Xbox 360, as mentioned in the brief trailer that was playing in the Rockstar area at the Leipzig Games Convention 2007.
The trailer seemed to be pulling footage from the Wii version of the game because the graphics were very close to what we saw in the PS2 version. All the kids and cliques from the original returned. Their threats, taunts and kisses, all the minigames, and various diversions were on display as well, from basketball and go-karts to Frisbee.
If you played the original on the PS2, then you do not have to skip class to play Bully: Scholarship edition. But if you haven't seen this schoolyard adventure from the master game crafters at Rockstar, attendance for playing either the Wii or Xbox 360 version will be practically mandatory when they hit shelves in the fourth quarter of this year.
The gameplay consists of a series of storyline driven missions required to complete the game, and a series of optional side missions. The main storyline is linear but the gameplay not as much, with the main character, Jimmy Hopkins, having the option to roam over the school campus and town, completing missions whenever he feels like it. The game makes extensive use of minigames. Some are used to earn money, others to improve Jimmy's abilities.
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 has a multitude of weapons available, although they tend to run along the lines of things a school boy might actually attain, such as slingshots, bags of marbles, stink bombs, and later in the game, a bottle rocket launcher and a spud gun. He also has an assortment of vehicles to operate - mainly bicycles with different abilities, but also a moped, a go-kart, a lawn mower, and a skateboard,The game focuses on Bullworth's newest student, Jimmy Hopkins. As he advances through his academic career at Bullworth Academy, he may interact with the school's students and teachers, as well as people from the neighboring towns, many of whom will give him tasks to complete. He is greeted by Gary Smith, a scheming, unstable sociopath and Pete Kowalski, a shy student who has yet to make any friends. Jimmy has to navigate his way through the five cliques at the school - the Bullies, Nerds, Preppies, Greasers and Jocks, as well as the Townie kids, the school faculty and all the other adult townsfolk.
Chapter 1: Making New Friends and Enemies: Jimmy comes to Bullworth Academy and immediately runs into trouble with the Bullies.
Chapter 2: Rich Kid Blues: Jimmy is now more popular, but he must deal with the spoiled Preppies.
Chapter 3: Love Makes the World Go Around: Jimmy gets mixed in with the love affairs of Lola and Johnny Vincent, leader of the Greasers.
Chapter 4: A Healthy Mind in a Healthy Body and Other Lies: Jimmy decides to take on the Jocks, but he first needs to convince the Nerds to help him.
Chapter 5: The Fall and Rise of Jimmy Hopkins, Age 15: Jimmy, after briefly enjoying his power as king of Bullworth Academy, is expelled. He has to clear his name and get re-enrolled back into the Academy while regaining control of the cliques.
Chapter 6: Endless Summer: Jimmy can tie up any loose ends, such as finishing races, finding collectibles, Etc.
