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Bully: Scholarship Edition | 
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| From: Rockstar Games
Category: Video Games
List Price: $49.99
Buy New: $42.99
You Save: $7.00 (14%)
New (35) Used (7) from $33.24
Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 811
Platform: Xbox 360
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 39298
UPC: 710425392986
EAN: 0710425392986
ASIN: B000WPXQSQ
Release Date: March 4, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: brand new, factory sealed. quick ship!
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| 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 |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
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
The Rockstar tradition of groundbreaking, original gameplay and humorous tongue-in-cheek storytelling invades an entirely new setting: the schoolyard.
As a mischievous schoolboy, you'll stand up to bullies, get picked on by teachers, play pranks, win or lose the girl, and ultimately learn to navigate the obstacles of the worst school around, Bullworth Academy - a corrupt and crumbling prep school with an uptight facade.
The story follows 15-year-old Jimmy Hopkins, a teenager who's been expelled from every school he's ever attended. Left to fend for himself after his mother abandons him at New England boarding school of Bullworth Academy to go on her fifth honeymoon, Jimmy has a whole year at Bullworth ahead of him, working his way up the social ladder of this demented institution of supposed learning, standing up for what he thinks is right and taking on the liars, cheats and snobs who are the most popular members of the student body and faculty. If Jimmy can survive the school year and outsmart his rivals, he could rule the school.
Ready yourself for a hilarious return to campus living with Bully, the outrageously funny game title for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft.
Accept missions to earn all-new rewards and achievements; your choices can affect the outcome in positive or negative ways
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
A Fun Open World Game April 25, 2008
I am a big fan of the Rockstar franchise and the sandbox games they produce. So Bully - Scholarship edition was a must have game for me.
The reviews did get me a bit apprehensive, but after playing through this game I would recommend this to anyone who has never explored such games before, and also people who love humour in their games.
The plus points about this game are a very immersive school crowd, brilliant story missions which never sound repetitive, and have their unique twists. If you do get bored of the missions or are stuck in one, you can do stuff like run errands, collect cards, rubber-bands, etc. Also, I never ever got frustrated with this game and enjoyed my play through. The characters and environments may not be graphically amazing but they are more than adequate and look good. Also, the voice acting is a bit over the top, and very humurous, but this is a game about school kids and their teachers, so you have to expect that!
The downsides of this game are occasional moments where people seem to get stuck on invisible barriers and graphical glitches. I did not find any major crashes, and I had heard that this game is extremely buggy, but I guess Rockstar has patched a few of these. So an update from XBOX Live should help.
All in all, I would recommend this game to anyone who wants to find out what the GTA series was all about, without any of the killing, and for folks who love GTA, Saints Row, etc...this is a game you must have in your collection. I wish I was back in school!!!
 Welcome to Bullworth Academy April 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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!
Now it is safe to swim April 13, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Rockstar has now released a patch to fix our beloved bully. So now is the best time to buy.
Bull is exellent game that is extremely fun and full of witty dialoge and story. I personaly think its better than GTA but that's my opinion.
Dont buy unless you have internet access to download the new patches.
 THIS GAME IS BROKEN! April 8, 2008
2 out of 16 found this review helpful
This game as it comes to your house in the box is broken. It was sloppily rushed out the door by Rockstar Games (probably because they just saw it as a trip to the bank after the amateur programmer's weekend it took to port this over to the 360) The game locks up randomly while playing. It's a fun game, but not if you have to replay the same tedious thirty minutes 7 times. Rockstar acknowledged this, and released an internet patch to fix it, but if you don't have an xbox that is online capable you will have this broken game FOREVER!!!! You shouldn't buy this piece of crap anyways, DONT LET ROCKSTAR SHOVE BROKEN CRAP DOWN OUR THROATS!
Bully! Not about bullying other kids! April 2, 2008
Bully is an updated port from the PS2 version. The graphics are updated as well as the gameplay. Overall I would say this is an excellent port of an older video game. Gameplay mechanics are solid and it has a funny story. Don't believe the hype in the media about bully making kids bully and glorifying bullying. THAT'S WRONG AND IGNORANT!! It's about a kid taking back the school from bullies and you are penalized for being a bully. Beside most kids face far worse in the real world schools than in this videogame. This is a T for teen rated game so parents pay attention to what your kids are playing. But this game is a definite buy, especially for those who like rockstar's games.
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