Add to Cart. View Community Hub. About This Game Bully: Scholarship Edition takes place at the fictional New England boarding school, Bullworth Academy, and tells the story of mischievous year-old Jimmy Hopkins as he goes through the hilarity and awkwardness of adolescence. Beat the jocks at dodge ball, play pranks on the preppies, save the nerds, kiss the girl and ultimately navigate the social hierarchy in the worst school around.
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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. Once you've changed the mouse sensitivity settings, it'll be bearable, but it's still only a mixed success. Picking locks feels possible, but imprecise. English lessons are bizarre -selecting letters using the direction keys?
On a keyboard? Did no-one realise there was an easier way to choose letters, staring directly at them? Also, the mapping of the console D-pads to Shift. The eccentricity of the targeting system it was always too easy to accidentally target and attack the person you're supposed to be helping is amplified on the PC and the bicycles send the camera into a troubling spasm. It's strange, coming to a game, knowing you love it - but also knowing that it's taken so long to get here, and especially post-GTA IV, it's almost certainly going to look dated.
Even resenting the time it took, if I'm confessing to a bit of platform-based petulance. Bully is undeniably a fantastic sandbox game. It follows the GTA template of missions, gangs, and world expansion, and adds such a glut of things to do.
Bully has a large and unlikely heart, and a stubborn reluctance to fit onto a mouse and keyboard. Before he's even had a chance to ditch class or hock a loogie in a single freshman's face, Jimmy Hopkins Bully's year-old hothead is already making a name for himself as the hero of the next bad game to ban.
What, you mean PTA groups and antiviolence crusaders take issue with a game in which your main mission is to rise to the top of a juvie-delinquent school's social order by fighting dirty and attending as few classes as possible? It doesn't help that Bully is from the publisher of the Grand Theft Auto and employs the same do-anything mechanic even if the hero isn't old enough to drive.
It is habitually an entertaining and disrespectful investigate the issues of growing up, however it conveys with it that the moles of transgression. This third individual, single player activity game famous people Jimmy Hopkins, a defiant understudy in a renowned all inclusive school.
In any case, wherein the GTA arrangement makes them work for hooligans and crowd managers, Bully exchanges these stock characters in to get another grouping of generalizations. The NPCs underneath are muscle heads and bully s, geeks and preppies, and managing the direct story implies exploring your way through each element of the order to get precisely what you might want.
Similarly, the powerful weaponry utilized in grown-up games on this sort have been exchanged for something fairly more appropriate to the environmental factors. Beat the jocks at dodge ball, play pranks on the preppies, save the nerds,. Includes the complete soundtrack, featuring 26 original tracks. After purchase and download you can locate the soundtrack in your Steam folder here.
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