ZTGameDomain writes: "I feel ashamed. I am one of the various people who simply passed up on Rockstar's Bully when it released back in 2006, for mostly the same reason as everyone else. Now that I have had time to come to terms with my next-gen consoles Rockstar has found it in their hearts to give me a second chance to enjoy this amazingly addictive title that has stirred more controversy than it deserves. Bully is an open-world game much in the same vein as the company's other series, but with more of a focus on social interactions and of course a lot less violence. With missions ranging from your typical collection marathons to mini-game induced classes Bully takes the genre to a whole new level and surprisingly the gameplay still holds strong nearly two years after its initial release."
Pros:
+ Inredibly Well Written
+ Plenty to See and Do
+ Interesting Characters
+ Controls are Excellent
Cons:
- Some Nasty Glitches
- Still Looks Like a PS2 Port
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.
