I must admit that the enhanced version Rockstar released a year or so back is easily the best way to play the game as they have improved the visuals best, they could, increased the volume of the audio and even added in a thing or two as well. Was It Really only two years ago that Rockstar rebranded this game Canis Canem Edit for the PlayStation 2 to pacify a bunch of angry ban-minded tabloids, who wouldn't think past that single word Bully? Was it really only eight months ago that the Scholarship Edition appeared on the Xbox ?
It feels like this game's been around for a decade - perhaps that's something to do with all that controversial publicity that Rockstar seem to suck up like profitable shock Hoovers. It's good that the game's finally made it, but it's not the flawless migration of GTA3. So, if you haven't already, meet Jimmy Hopkins, a hard, defiant but not evil boy, who's been placed in Bulworth Academy by parents who don't seem to care much what happens to him.
Being the new kid is never the best position, and if it were real, your first hours in Bully would be enough to grind you down. Girls jeer, you don't register with the Jocks, and even the nerds are brave enough to have a pop at you. Fortunately, at least for the fl first chapter, Gary takes yon M under his wing, guiding you M through Ins brand of amoral, medicated missions, in which I you play along with his Christian-Slater-in-HecMers attempts to rule or destroy the school.
Sure enough, they're fetch, fight and escort missions, but the world is full of things to do, and the rewards are real - people become well-disposed to you and the school's factions become less hostile.
It happens slowly, but Bulworth becomes a more tolerable place once you've built a reputation. This is school, so there are classes -which you can ditch, if you don't mind getting chased. If you're on a mission when there's a lesson, and you get ' busted, the mission will fail, and you'll be dragged back to class.
The days seem full. Have you time to squeeze a mission in between classes, or a few races after school? Bully is full of things to do; the world may be smaller than in Rockstar's other games, but it's packed solid. You'll actually want to go to classes, because the bonuses are useful. Smoothtalk ladies and avoid violence with English; build bikes in Shop; increase your health bonus in Art. It almost feels like you are being encouraged into thinking an education is somehow useful.
None of the ban-this-filth platoon said that because - of course - they would have to play the game to find this out. Even if the missions aren't exactly groundbreaking, and suffer from the mini-map checkpoint-chasing that is almost Rockstar's motif, they're fun in the schoolyard setting.
Plus, the cut scenes and storylines are fantastic. There's a huge reliance on stereotype and gross-out, but with so many characters, you can forgive the game for relying on familiarity. But there's also a heap of humanity. It's hard not to feel a pang of sympathy for the thieving girl whose locker you're raiding when she comes back into the toilets for a bulimic purge. And Jimmy's speeches are unsentimental, but occasionally kind.
Controls, as mentioned above, have been literally translated from a console pad onto the keyboard. This is, however, not how a werewolf's body would be configured - werewolves in human form are entirely human, and if transformed, their heads and skulls would be wolflike rather than human. There are strange howling sounds out in the woods at night, although there is absolutely nothing indicating this is related to werewolves. Dogs howl, as do coyotes, which are native to the New England area.
There are persistent false rumours that Gary is a werewolf. The rumors claim that a scar on the werewolf mask worn by Trevor at Halloween and later acquirable by Jimmy has a scar on the right eye identical to Gary's scar. They do both have scars, but the scars are not identical - Gary's scar goes diagonally across his eye to the corner of his jaw, and the werewolf's scar goes straight down to the bridge of its nose. All the other evidence, such as the x-rays, photos and howling, don't relate to Gary in any way.
This myth started because myth-hunting fans saw Gary's scar, the Werewolf's scar, and decided that that and that alone proved Gary was a werewolf. A rumor was once started that the ghost of a female student can be seen in the girl's dorm attic or in the bathroom of the gym at night.
The ghost student supposedly died during her time at Bullworth. No photographs or videos have surfaced regarding this, nor is there a ghost in the data files. This myth was likely started by a myth-hunting fan with an over-eager imagination, or one who was just lying. This rumor popped up shortly after Bully's release, and was debunked after fans began hacking the game and proved that the Asylum's roof was just a roof.
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