Bully: Scholarship Edition

by Rockstar Games

Product Features

• Over 30 hours of content, including eight new missions, four new classes, 45 new lessons, 100 voiced characters, mini games, unlockables and collectibles
• Defend the weaker students by inflicting wedgies on their oppressors
• Keep your cool and make a good impression on the ladies
• Interact with jocks, nerds, preppies, greasers, teachers, townies and carnies
• Dominate the school with a friend in two-player mini games

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000WPXQSQ
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches ; 7 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: March 4, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (54 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,103 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: Xbox 360

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Retaining the wit and deep gameplay of the previously released PS2 Bully title, Bully: Scholarship Edition takes place in the fictional New England boarding school of Bullworth Academy and tells the story of 15-year-old Jimmy Hopkins as he experiences the highs and lows of adjusting to a new school. Capturing the hilarity and awkwardness of adolescence perfectly, Bully: Scholarship Edition pulls the player into its cinematic and engrossing world set in the most vile and sadistic setting yet in a Rockstar videogame: the schoolyard. Laugh and cringe as you 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 Bullworth Academy.

Bully: Scholarship Edition comes to the Xbox 360, boasting new content, next generation graphics, and two player mini-games that make this title appealing to previous Bully players and a whole new audience.

New Content
8 new missions, 4 new classes, hilarious new characters, added two-player mode, new unlockables, new rewards and achievements.

Variety
With 82 missions, 45 lessons, loads of mini games and collectibles, Bully provides over 30 hours of entertainment.

Characters
Over 100 voiced characters to socially interact with among several social groups: jocks, nerds, preppies, greasers, teachers, townies, carnies and of course girls.

Choice
You?re in charge. 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.

Technological Upgrades:

• Use of next gen-graphical techniques including high resolution textures and dynamic lighting & shadow system.
• Faster frame speed makes the game smoother and more responsive.
• Recreated and updated over 3000 textures and character models by hand to bring up to next gen standards.
• Improved full screen effects, including dynamic glow FX, improved depth of field, and heat and fire FX.
• Textures uprezzed by 4x over the original Bully for PS2.
• More pedestrians and vehicles are able to load at once which improves the visual variety of the game.
• Mini-games, including classes are easily accessible through the menu system.

Product Description

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

77 of 79 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Welcome to Bullworth Academy, April 15, 2008

By 

Karen F. Nath "The Music Chronicler" (A musical universe) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Bully: Scholarship Edition (Video Game)

If you haven't played Bully, let me say that you are in for a huge treat. First off, Rockstar was kind enough to lop ten bucks off the purchase price so this is being sold for fifty bucks, which is actually a steal, considering how much content this game has. Let me also dispel any notions of this being a "schoolyard GTA", in fact, the high school that I go to is worse than this game is. You don't kill people, there is no blood; the whole atmosphere is very tongue in cheek.

Bully is an open world game set in the fictitous Bullworth Academy and its neighboring town. While that may not sound like a huge world to explore, there is so much detail in everything that you will hardly notice this. You start out as Jimmy Hopkins, a fifteen year old delinquent dropped off by your mother and new stepdad at boarding school. Right away, you figure out that the teachers are corrupt, the students are all part of conformist cliques, the prefects are out to bust anyone for putting a toe over the line, and the only kid like you is a power-hungry jerk. Thanks, mom.

The gameplay is extremely solid. Combat is varied, with a number of ways you can take on the prefects, teachers, or townspeople. You can, of course, punch, kick, etc, but you can also throw eggs, use stink bombs, lob firecrackers...you get the picture. The number and sheer variety of missions is extraordinary. It took me well over 100 hours to achieve absolutely everything in the game and get all the Achievements (which are quite fun and varied as well). And believe me, you won't regret an hour spent playing. Even classroom activities are really enjoyable, offering up some unique minigames, which benefit your everyday skills (e.g., if you excel in Art, you will have more success with the ladies).

The plot is very well done, and humor is ever present. Jimmy needs to win over the groups of students: the Nerds, Jocks, Preps, Greasers, and Bullies. Along the way, you'll run into missions delving into calendar year functions, such as Halloween and Christmas. Everything you do is related to something else, which makes the whole game that much more enjoyable. (However, if you already played this on PS2, there isn't a ton of new content here, 8 missions, 4 classes, multiplayer, and Achievements are about it).

Here's to a sequel that hopefully will be coming soon!

250 of 277 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars one of the best games from PS2 just got better!, March 7, 2008

By 

Raul Duke "Gonzo HST" (Pittsburgh) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Bully: Scholarship Edition (Video Game)

first, please vote whether this helps or not. otherwise its kind of pointless writing these. yes/no buttons are right at the bottom of the review. thanks.

if you enjoyed this game on the PS2 half as much as me, you're going to love it on the 360. there's tons of new content including 8 new missions, 4 new classes, new characters, two-player classes/mini games, new unlockables, new rewards and achievements. in total you get 82 missions, 45 lessons, loads of mini games and collectibles. 30+ hours of gameplay.

its an open world sandbox game with deeper combat options than most, full of options to dispatch your enemies, including tackles, headbutts, and a few wresting grapples. the world is pretty massive, and will take some time to fully explore. maybe its just me, but the environments seem to be expanded pretty majorly from the PS2 version. theres a few vehicles you can use to explore the campus and the surrounding town including a skateboard, bicycles, go-carts, and scooters.

the graphics have been revamped significantly. an all new lighting/shadow system has been added, along with high resolution textures. it still doesnt compare to most xbox 360 games, but thats not the point, and thats probably a big part of its price.

this game has more general character and spirit than almost any other game ive played. everyone is a pretty believeable character in thier universe. playing this really takes you back. its like being in highschool all over again, but if you want to shove someone into a locker you can, you want to pinch your teachers behind as she walks past? go for it! you wanna watch the hall monitor(prefect) fall in your scattered marbles, only to be shot down by your bottle rockets when he chases after you?? no problem! there is great variety of people to interect with, each group with their own members and unique personalities:jocks, nerds, preppies, bullies, greasers, teachers, townies, carnies.

its the Grand Theft Auto of the schoolyard, complete with no killing, and the lack of anything too offensive. during its developement, this was quickly becomming one of the most controversial games in years. upon its release, all the soccer moms and political wives with nothing better to do than scapegoat video games were slapped in the face by a harmless romp down memory lane, with a few complimentary wedgies.

add a surprisingly good story full of twists that goes through the whole school year and a cast rivaled by very few games, and you have yourself the answer to your open-world thirst. next to GTA IV and Saints Row this is your best bet.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One in my collection of favorites, March 22, 2008

By 

K. Hunter - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Bully: Scholarship Edition (Video Game)

This game is fun in so many ways. I rented it for PS2 very early last year and I decided to buy it when I found out it was being released for the 360. I'm glad I did. It's GTA in a teen world, I say that because there is really no blood visible and no guns. There's much to do. You can go to class or skip it if you want, you always get infinite chances to complete the class you're on. For example, the class system is you do 5 classes of each subject. Let's say if you're on class 3 and you skip it, you have a chance to do it tomorrow (in-game time, of course) and the day after that, etc.

There is a carnival in this game where you can play different games to earn tickets to buy items like a Moped, posters, a clown outfit, and other things. There are 3 different sections of the whole map. One is a suburban neighborhood, the other is an 'industrial powerplant' area, grungy all around and sort of poor looking. That's where the townies are located. The last is an area where you can find various stores and the beach. The carnival is located there down a road through a tunnel.

Anyway, I think people interested in the RPG, free-roam, and adventure genres would enjoy this game. The fighting is great in my opinion, the way you can throw people in trash cans and give them swirlies. People of all ages, well obviously not parents, would like this and get at least SOME fun out of it. When you do the missions you need to do to progress in the game, sometimes you unlock outfits or items, depending on the mission (they're always the same no matter how many times you play it). The "Endless Summer" chapter you get after you beat the game is a great way to complete all the classes you didn't get to finish during the actual chapters, and also do all the side quests to get achievements and some extra cash for new hairstyles, clothes, etc. This has good replay value after you've beaten it for a while and are tired of playing the Endless Summer chapter AND want to relive the mission experiences. If you are totally unsure if you should buy this or not, go rent it and see if it's worth it. Hope this helped.

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