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Grand Theft Auto (1997)

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Today’s one minute game review is on Bully from Rockstar Vancouver.

Bully’s elevator pitch is that it’s a Grand Theft Auto style game but set at a boarding school. The guns and knives have been traded for slingshots and firecrackers, and the cars, boats and planes have been swapped with skateboards, bikes, and scooters. You play as the fifteen-year-old rebel, Jimmy Hopkins, who is recklessly determined to take over Bullworth Academy by controlling the school’s various cliques. The premise sounds solid enough, but how does this game hold up almost 16 years after its release.

Bully focuses more on hand-to-hand combat than other Rockstar titles. And, although the fighting mechanics are a bit clunky by today’s standards, it still feels quite satisfying to take out opponents.

Rockstar games from this era are known for having missions that are stupidly frustrating.

…Vice City’s RC Helicopter…

And Bully does have frustrating moments, especially this one stealth mission, but for the most part, the missions are more fun and less “why is this so hard?”

The characters and storylines are hilarious, if a bit cliche. And the game sold decently well back in the day. So why no sequel?

Well, a second game was reportedly in development, but the devs were pulled off the project to help Red Dead 1 get across the finish line.

Also, they must have accidentally printed this game onto a billion discs, because I still see brand new Xbox 360 copies for sale at every Walmart I go into. Maybe they’re just waiting to sell through their backstock before they work on the Bully 2.

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