Crispy Gamer writes: "In Bully, players get to be hero and villain, savior of the school and scourge of Bullworth Academy. As Jimmy Hopkins, equal parts saint and sinner, they get to take the role of a troubled 15-year-old boy dropped off at Bullworth Academy, aka Hell on Earth.
The game works on many levels, but mostly because it's self-aware enough not mire itself -- or players -- in extended missions or multipart challenges. Players can complete most tasks in five or so minutes and move on. Or they can have a perfectly fun time running around the school and its outlying areas causing mischief. This, then, is a game that does the open-world adventure correctly. More to the point, it does the open-world with gusto."
What's Hot:
-Wii remote functionality
-Game has heart and brains
What's Not:
-Watching the school lunch lady sneeze in the stew
-Horrible stealth missions
-Game is in need of a patch
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.
