VIDEO GAME REVIEW // Bully

Bully is an action-adventure video game developed by Rockstar Vancouver and published by Rockstar Games. It was released on October 17th, 2006 for the PlayStation 2. It can now be played on other consoles such as Wii, Xbox 360 and PC.

Set in a fictional town called Bullworth, you play as a troubled student James "Jimmy" Hawkins who has been sent to a private school by his mother. You're taken in by a fellow student by the name Gary who mentors you without asking and introduces you to the various cliques of Bullworth Academy; the Bullies, Nerds, Preppies, Greasers and Jocks. Each of these cliques has an obvious distinct characteristic to them, obviously, that makes them easy to tell apart all throughout the town and school. You work with Gary to try and assert your dominance over the rest of the cliques in the school. Which eventually back fires on you. You go from being feared, to being hated by everyone and you play the rest of the game gaining everyone's trust and trying to get back at the guy who fucked you over from the beginning, Gary.

One mode of gameplay I thought was pretty interesting was the fact that you have a schedule, and when the bell rings, you HAVE to go to class. Okay, technically you don't have to, but if you don't, the adults on campus will chase you down and force you into your class. Each class has different mini-games you can play, if you get a good score, you pass the class. If not, you gotta take it over again. In science class you get to cut open dead animals like rats and frogs, dissecting and pulling out organs. In music class it's almost like Dance Dance, you have to hit the right buttons at the right time as the drop from the screen. If you don't time it right, the notes are played wrong and you fuck up the whole song.

I loved every aspect of this game. All the mini-games, the story mode and tons of different characters you meet all throughout town and in school. It's definitely age appropriate, nothing to vulgar that might piss you parents off. I'd give this one a 4/5. Fun to play, would love to play a remastered version of this game. That would be pretty awesome!