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| From: Rockstar
Category: Video Games
List Price: £39.99
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Rating:  69 reviews
Sales Rank: 1524
Platform: Playstation2
Genre: action-games
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Number Of Items: 1
Age: 11 - 18 years
Operating System: Playstation 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5026555304801
ASIN: B0009RWHZU
Release Date: October 25, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: DISC ONLY/UNBOXED/Disc has some scratching
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Amazon.co.uk Review:
In a nutshell:
The game previously known as Bully is Rockstar's most controversial title yet - despite the fact that almost everything that's been written about it in the tabloids is wrong. You play the bullied not the bully in a cleverly observed pastiche of school life. The lowdown:
Although this bares comparison to both Grand Theft Auto (in terms of the large freeform world and highly interactive environments) and The Warriors (the combat system is nearly identical) this is very different to Rockstar's other games. Although you are supposed to attended lessons each day (doing well gives you new abilities and items) you're free to explore Bulworth Academy at leisure with a wide range of missions from raiding the girl's dormitory and fetching transistors for the local tramp to protecting nerds from bullies. In fact that the whole game is about surviving the school experience and making friends and ironically has a far more moral point to make than any of Rockstar's previous titles. Most exciting moment:
Although you can get into fist fights with other students there's never any blood shed, just the odd pulled ear or Chinese burn. There are plenty of other school yard pranks you can pull of though with the judicious use of catapults, stink bombs and cherry bombs. You can also make out with girls (or boys if you so desire) if you can find a way to get on their good side. Since you ask:
There have been numerous calls for the game to be banned in both the U.S. and UK, although tellingly all such calls were made long before the game was even previewed and were based solely on the name. The final product is only rated 15+ and features only mild amounts of violence. The bottom line:
One of the most original games for years and far more wholesome than its reputation suggests.-HARRISON DENT
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| Customer Reviews: Read 64 more reviews...
 Nostalgic and engrossing July 6, 2007
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
With the exception of the GTA series, this is Rockstars finest work to date. There is simply no other game available which has such a unique atmosphere. The havoc you can wreak created a lot of nostalgic memories for me from my childhood.
The actual school lessons are surprisingly varied. They range from a Pac Man style mini game for Art, to QTE style button prompts for Chemistry and Shop. Whats best about these lessons is the fact that once completed, they give you increased skills. For example, once English lessons have been completed, Jimmy will be more able to talk himself out of trouble.
The missions still suffer from being little more than either fetch quests, or simply require you to travel from point A to B, then to C. But the story that sets up each mission is always watchable, humourous, and develops the story in a way that you actually care what happens next, which is rare for me.
I am playing this game on my PS3 due to a severe lack of games available for the system. I have been playing this for close to 4 weeks now and havent touched a PS3 game since. Surely this is proof that it is one of the most engrossing and enjoyable games available on any format.
A* December 3, 2006
36 out of 41 found this review helpful
This is a fantastic game, although I admit that I was very wary of it at first. I'd seen trailers advertising it showing excessive bullying and the likes and didn't think it looked any good. My brother then bought it (much to my disgust) and yes...I got hooked. I made a game about 2 weeks ago now and have been steadily working through the world of Jimmy Hopkins - a young trouble maker that has been expelled from 7 schools only to end up at Bullworth Academy. Once at the school you have to begin earning respect from all of the peer groups - nerds, jocks, greasers, townies, and preppies. Doing this involves a hell of a lot of different missions, ranging from spraying graffiti over greaser town (New Coventry), shooting jocks using your slingshot, and stealing items back from people such as homework, diaries and the likes. As well as the respect challenges you also work through a range of tasks to gain money. These are usually of a comical nature; for example stuffing students into lockers, but also practical tasks like finding someones dog.
Whilst you begin to form friendships and respect amongst your classmates you start attending lessons. The curriculum at Bullworth includes English, Art, Photography, Chemistry, Shop and Gym. Each subject has 5 levels to master and once complete you can use the skills learnt in your every day life; gym for example teaches a mixture of wrestling and dodgeball which increases accuracy and teaches moves to beat people up with, whereas english gives you the ability to chat up and later kiss girls to unlock health bonuses.
As you progress through your lessons and complete tasks for friends, teachers and citizens you will be faced with new challenges allowing you to open up new areas of the vast map. Within the map are shops, barbers and the likes along with heaps more challenges for you to complete.
Overall this is a wicked game and so much better than I first expected. I find myself getting addicted to it and playing for hours on end. What I also like is the fact that you are allowed to fashion Jimmy exactly how you like; so he starts out as a skin headed chav but I personally have no made him into a rather sexy punk rocker/skater. There's loads to explore in this game and an enormous storyline with a few laughs thrown in as well. If you like other games by Rockstar, I'd highly recommend checking this out. 10/10
Canis Canem Edit...Dog Eat Dog in Latin, apparently November 16, 2006
15 out of 17 found this review helpful
When all the controversy blew up over 'Bully' I'd love to have been in Rockstar Vancouver's marketing department. All they did was release the title and a few Daily Mail-baiting details and their job was done for them. Anyway, onto the game. It's really great fun, it's what your school days were like in rose-tinted retrospect-o-vision but in reality you spent all lunch time in the library. There isn't any real violence, no guns, just the cunning and imagination of a "problem child". It's full of pranks, girls, and playing the stereotypical cliques of American High School social hierarchy off against one another. A really enjoyable, original and funny game. My only criticism is that the game loses focus in it's latter stages, and is short. A solid weekend of gaming will see you complete it, and replay value isn't great but it's a refreshingm title after a year of unimaginative sequels and re-releases.
A truly uplifting and feelgood video game July 17, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
If I didn't get so angry for the way that fans of video games are disgustingly stereotyped, then I would find it laughable that after all the pathetic controversy that this game caused and as always from people that know absolutely nothing or have absolutely no interest in video games at all, that this game would turn out to be one of the most original, warmest, humerous and most feelgood videogames that I have played for a long time.
As you are probably well aware by now, this is not a game about playing the part of a school bully who goes around killing fellow pupils in the most brutal way imaginable and for the sake of it, but a game about playing the part of school pupil (Jimmy Hopkins) who is bullied and decides to stand up to the bullies but not killing them.
This is one of those games that I can't possibly explain how good it is just by commenting about it, you have to play it to appreciate just how lovely it is, to me it has got the feeling of being in some kind of 1980's School movie that never existed, almost like THE BREAKFAST CLUB, STAND BY ME and THE GOONIES all rolled into one feelgood video game, I know two of the films I have just mentioned have nothing to do with school but I just feel that this has a similar kind of feel, then there is that brilliantly original feelgood soundtrack that always plays at the right time (I keep saying feelgood now because it is), again this feels like it was from a 1980's movie that never was.
I am sure that even if you have never played this, you will know that the gameplay is similar to Grand Theft Auto in its freedom to play missions at your own pace, there aren't as many as Grand Theft Auto but they are just as enjoyable. There are so many nice little touches to this game that make it so likeable for example the Halloween Night, outside of the school there is that seaside like town and the most realistic fairground I have ever seen in video game that isn't a strategy or simulator type game.
There is plenty more positive things I can say about this gem of a game but it would take far too long and I think you will already know by now what I think of this game. A FEELGOOD VIDEO GAME GEM.
Canis canem edit-dog eat dog-bully-\BRILLIANT August 2, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Looking for an addictive game packed with action? CANIS CANEM EDIT IS HERE
I have only just completed this game! It took me months! (about 3 overall) Yet, still i do not stop playing it!!!
It is a surprisingly well structured and exciting game which will never lose its fun!!!
The game is a game of choices: You can attend your lessons and try to get good grades, or you can skive off them and explore the city of bullworth and your school and aquire objects, speak to people, make friends, collect items, start missions, take part in races and challenges and earn money which you can use to buy clothes and get haircuts which can change that chav you start out as into whatever you want...eg: punk, grunger, goth, greaser, townie, nerd, preppie, jock...etc!
There is so much to do! This game is almost perfect! except for one minor thing.....................................................................you pass out at 1/2 past 2 unless you go to sleep!
As Jimmy Hopkins, you have many abilities which include:
fighting moves (kicking, punching, grabbing, shoving), insults and verbal abuse, bullying techniques (stuffing pupils heads into toilets and flushing them, throwing pupils into bins, locking them into lockers, spitting on ones hand and wiping it on a pupils face)...etc!!! etc!!!
There are loads of others which you can find out for yourself, if you have this game!
Throughout the games, either from missions, lessons or challenges or just collecting, you will aquire many items and weapons such as:
Spud gun, bottle rocket gun, slingshot 1 and 2, rubberband ball, camera black and white, camera panoramic, stink bombs, itching powder...and many others!!!
Just because you have all these abilities and weapons, it doesn't neccessarily mean that you have to be a bully. In this game you can protect the victims of bullying and basically...bully the bullies!
Or you an stay out of trouble completely by just ride around the town on one of your bmxs, skateboards or your mopeds! Altenatively, get a job or
help out other people or even take photos!
Other problems of the game are:
Prefects, police, teachers and adults can get you busted easily if you've been very bad. When you get busted, apart from your skateboard, slingshot, rubber band ball, and camera all your weapons get confiscated!
A few more things; From challenges,, you will unlock other sleeping and saving locations so you don't just have to go in your dormitary.
And you can go into shops, go to the barbers and enter some buildings in this game and you can get friens, enemies and...tattoos!
FASCINATINGLY FANTASTICALLY SUPERBLY AMAZINGLY BRILLIANTLY GREAT GAME!!!
Fun for anyone, no matter what genre of game they like!!!
An almost perfect buy! 9.99/10
Thanks for reading my review, I hope you found it helpful.
Steven Roatch Russell
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