Bully: Scholarship Edition

by Rockstar Games

Product Features

• 8 new missions, 4 new classes, hilarious new characters, added two-player mode, new unlockables, and new rewards
• With 82 missions, 45 lessons, loads of mini games and collectibles, Bully provides over 30 hours of entertainment
• Over 100 voiced characters to socially interact with among several social groups - jocks, nerds, preppies, greasers, teachers, townies, carnies and of course girls
• Decide whether you have a positive or negative effect when interacting or accepting missions; you can say hello to fellow classmates or deliver mean wedgies
• New high-resolution textures and dynamic lighting and shadow system

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001EK5ZGE
• Item Weight: 8.3 ounces
• Media: DVD-ROM
• Release Date: October 20, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,657 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Platform: PC

Bully takes the Rockstar tradition of groundbreaking and original gameplay and humorous tongue-in-cheek storytelling to an entirely new setting: the schoolyard. As a troublesome schoolboy, you’ll stand up to bullies, get picked on by teachers, play pranks on malicious kids, win or lose the girl, and ultimately learn to navigate the obstacles of the fictitious reform school, Bullworth Academy. Bully is the brutally funny debut title from Rockstar Vancouver

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

31 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not Playable, October 23, 2008

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somename - See all my reviews

= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Bully Scholarship Edition (DVD-ROM)

I have only had this product for a few hours, but I thought I'd write up a quick review to warn other people that may consider buying this game. I'm hopeful that they will have patches and improve the quality, but as it stands right now this game is not playable on my system. I have a modern system with 4gb of ram and GeForce 8800GT. The problems are not from performance. There seem to be a lot of little bugs and some huge. Indoor areas don't render correctly. Often the floor or some walls are missing and you could see right through them. This makes it hard to navigate some maps. I've also got caught a couple of times where after cut scenes it goes to the loading screen and doesn't ever seem to escape. I've waited about 10 minutes before killing it. This is unacceptable and makes the game unplayable. I tried to check Rockstar's support site, but they don't even mention the PC version of Bully yet. I find it unlikely that these problems are only with my system. Hopefully soon as more reviews come in we will have an idea how common these issues are, and hopefully soon after there will be patches to make this playable. I had a lot of hope for this game, but right now it is a huge disappointment. I recommend that anyone interested in purchasing this game should wait and see if the issues are widespread before risking purchasing an unplayable game.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Could be great with a patch, almost unplayable as-is, October 27, 2008

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C. Cook (Rust Belt, USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Bully Scholarship Edition (DVD-ROM)

Do not buy this game until it is patched! I have and enjoy the PS2 version, but this just isn't playable due to the very poor frame rates. I have an AMD Opteron 165 (roughly equivalent to a 3800+), 2 gigs of ram and a 7800 GT graphics card. I'm lucky if I get past 20 FPS, and it can drop into the single digits outside. Even if I bottom out the resolution it's still only in the 20's, though it's still not playable. You'll be running along and the game will freeze every 10 seconds for a couple beats before resuming. Unacceptable! I've played the PC versions of GTA3 on a far older computer and they ran great. Now, this game with almost the same engine is unplayable!

One other thing that's bad are the controls. Though these can be remapped they shouldn't have to be. This is a simple console game but it's using way too much of the keyboard. Why am I using the shift key to attack instead of the left mouse? Also, it seems as though the designers had never used a PC before. For example a lot of the menus use Alt and Space instead of Enter and Escape. Why!? There is something in the controls about 360 mode so I'm guessing they assumed everyone would hook up a 360 controller to play this. That is really lame.

With a graphics patch and some work in the controls menu this could be a really fun game. As I said I have it on the PS2, it's great. All the good things about the GTA games are here but it still feels like a very different game. I hope I will be able to enjoy it at some point, but until the issues get fixed DO NOT BOTHER. It's too bad Rockstar decided to join the crowd and start making crappy PC ports. I will be very careful when GTA4 makes it to the PC, maybe I'll be forced to stick with the PS3 version for this one...

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Thanks for nothing Rockstar, October 23, 2008

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Marty Watson "Never late for supper" (Near Roanoke Va. USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Bully Scholarship Edition (DVD-ROM)

Another game written for consoles and very hastily "Ported" to run on PC. Slow, clunky UI, no decent graphics options and really awkward game play. I wish I had saved my money.

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