Evil Avatar writes: "Bully: Scholarship Edition has been released on the Wii and 360 mostly for people that never picked up and enjoyed the original PS2 version of the game. When Bully first came out it was right before the release of the Playstation 3 and Wii and just about a year after the Xbox 360 came out. It was decidedly a last generation game in terms of graphics and loading screens from the company that produced the Grand Theft Auto games. Much like the original Manhunt, I believe Bully went largely unnoticed and wasn't picked up by the game playing public. I personally picked up the game simply because I was looking for something a little less mature from Rockstar, but in the vein of their major moneymaker. Now I receive the Wii version to review having already beaten the PS2 version so long ago and I have to say I enjoy most of the changes they've made to tweak it up to Wii standards."
The Good
+ The Wii controls for the most part, especially in Biology and Music class
+ The story is top notch
+ If you missed the game originally, you have another chance
+ The voicework is top notch
The Bad
- The nunchuck controls not registering consecutively when fighting
- Aiming with the slingshot via the remote can be tough
- The loading times are still annoying
The Ugly
- Eunice...is anyone in movies or games named Eunice ever pretty?
Rockstar appears to have updated the PC version of Bully: Scholarship Edition, but it wasn't the major improvement many speculated.
Bully: Scholarship Edition was an Xbox 360 & Wii re-release of the PS2 classic. Still playable on modern consoles, it'll make you long for a sequel.
A sequel? More likely a remake as is the current trend? No point, everyone wants GTA VI.
It's a shame that basically all of Rockstar's catalogue apart from GTA and Red Dead is now, well, dead.
The R☆ of today is extremely unlikely to put out any project that isn't GTA because of the gaming climate and because GTA is stupidly self sustaining.
Gone are the days of a mainline title and a portable tie-in/standalone title of the same name just like publishers putting out multiple fighters at once.
Costs are too high and mainline titles have become too gargantuan to allow for "risks" on lesser titles that may not take off or sell.
Take Capcom for example, and SF6. We are unlikely to ever see a new installment of their other fighters like Rival School or Darkstalkers because SF6 is more popular, recognized and costly. A new Darkstalkers in the RE Engine would look sick as f*ck, and would visually be unlike any other fighter if done right. Sadly though, it's not as recognizable as SF and Capcom is unlikely to put so much on the line for something that might not catch.
If there’s to be a sequel it should be at the college/university level. Otherwise its just going to be a rehash of the same progression and story.
Yes, at one point, people really were angry about Night Trap.
