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Bully: Scholarship Edition
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'Bully: Scholarship Edition' takes place at the fictional New England boarding school Bullworth Academy, and tells the story of mischievous 15-year-old Jimmy Hopkins as he goes through the hilarity and awkwardness of adolescence. Beat the jocks at dodge ball, play pranks on the preppies, save the nerds, kiss the girl.
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"Even a bundle of technical issues can't stop Bully: Scholarship Edition from letting you have a great time running amok on the Xbox 360"
5 ★ (19)
4 ★ (29)
3 ★ (4)
2 ★ (2)
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Domesticated Dog Eats Dog Domesticated World

The earnestness in Bully and details such as gaining momentum on a hill while riding a bike comes from a crop of creators and innovators first instead of accountants and data analysis first. I have no… Read more

Bully Review

It's ridiculous. Throw itching powder on nerds, throwing marbles on the ground, giving someone a wedgie,bla bla bla. It has almost all the things you can do in real life. It's realistic. I climbed a l… Read more

great game,but.........

love this game . its good you have to option to do quests or just chill at school or at town and just beat up kids and throw stink bombs.there is just one problem constant glitches i got stuck on my s… Read more

Rockstar's child friendly effort deserves your attention

Going into Bully: Scholarship Edition I was definitely excited to try a completely different experience from one of my favorite publishers, Rockstar Games . Being a huge fan of Grand Theft Auto , Manh… Read more

Grand Theft Auto, Jr.

Let me get the negative stuff out of the way first: the only reason this game loses points is because it keeps freezing, a lot, and I hear a lot of other people have the same problem, so it can't just… Read more

Yet another excellent open-ended action title by Rockstar

Rockstar is the king of the hill when it comes to the open-ended action game, and Bully is yet another jewel in that crown. It is an excellent game, and one of the few great third party games on the W… Read more

High school boiled down

It's rare that a developer goes from make a adult game about crime with very adult themes. To making a game about a high school kid who moves to a school for child delinquents and socially challenged… Read more

A Variety of Bad Gameplay Packaged into 1 Game

I have never been a huge fan of Rockstar-developed games. I tolerated GTA: Vice City as much as the next person, but have always found more to dislike in their games than I liked. My short 2 hours wit… Read more

Bully: Scholarship Edition Review - Temporal Paste Loop

Bully was a PS2 game developed by Rockstar near the release of the Xbox 360. Rockstar felt that it did not get the attention it deserved so, in 2008 they released Bully: Scholarship Edition for the 36… Read more

Bully: Scholarship Edition Review

Bully is based in and around the schoolyard of one of the roughest schools in the world, at the beginning you'll be dropped off outside Bullsworth academy by your Mother and stepdad, this will be your… Read more

Awesome story w/ great gameplay, backed by bad tech. problems

CONS: -Really glitchy -Graphics are not… good -Loading screens get really annoying and tedious, plus there’s like only 5 of them, and they get tiresome of looking at -Not enough info until it’s actual… Read more

Great characters and setting make this game a winner.

The Bully is an open world sandbox type game set in a boarding school. The story is kind of like all rockstar games' stories. You are a person who'll do anything for money, and who can do a lot. You g… Read more

Scholarship Edition is a great game, glitches aside.

Bully: Scholarship Edition is a port of a last-gen game so you shouldn't be coming into this expecting a pretty game. As someone who has never played the original, I loved it. It's pretty much a T-rat… Read more

Bully: Scholarship Edition

Did you ever wonder what Grand Theft Auto would be like if it was based in a school? Yeah, me neither. Well, I hadn't until I heard about Bully. Released in 2006 for the Playstation. 2, Bully was a fu… Read more

Bully Scholarship Edition (360)

Not too long ago Rockstar games released a highly controversial game for the Playstation 2 called Bully. The game received attention from people such as Jack Thompson and has even been banned in a few… Read more

Bully: Scholarship Edition is an enjoyable high school experience

Bully: Scholarship Edition is Rockstar's take on high school life. It's inmediately evident that Bully was made by the same guys as those that made GTA. Everything, from the load screens to the hilari… Read more

Nearly 5 stars. But the issues hit the 360 version hard.

Bully is a game devolved by Grand Theft auto and Manhunt creators, Rockstar games. It had been a rough 18months since it had been released on the PS2 console and very little has changed since. In this… Read more

It's GTA at school.

I've wanted to play Bully for years and finally I'm able to with the PC release of the game. However the port is so horrible and theres tons of glitches and quite often even with my beefy Rig the Fram… Read more

Bully:Scholarship Edition (Wii)

Imagine you are a thug, who gets expelled from nearly every school you went to,your Mother runs off and marries some random guy for his money and then ditches you at the lousiest boarding school on th… Read more

Some Glitches, but Overall Good

Ahh, school. Everyone remembers the times when you ran around trying to get to math class while being chased by bigger kids with minds that are more full of ego rather than smarts. Okay, well maybe th… Read more

A glitchy port of a fun game.

One thing is for certain - applying the sandbox environment Rockstar is famous for to a boarding school concept filled with school bullies, jocks, nerds, cheerleaders, greasers and townies is a great… Read more

A fun, free-roaming game that uses every stereotype in the book.

Ever wondered what a considerably less violent free-roam Rockstar game might be like? Well Bully is that experiment. Place yourself in a school, where you do 2 classes a day, or can ditch, and adventu… Read more

How are there no cops with Jimmy Hopkins around?

Jimmy Hopkins is one naughty little boy who doesn't always keep his nose clean when it comes to being at Bullworth. He returns from the classic on the PS2 and has brought more hijinks than any other s… Read more

Bully a PS2 classic on Wii with extra stuff

Bully finally made it's way to the Wii if you did play the PS2 version of this classic game Canim Canis Edit your getting the same game with extras added to the game with a whole different control sys… Read more

Bully: Scholarship Edition Review

When Rockstar Games announced that Bully was being remade for the Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii back in July 07′, I was extremely excited at the thought of a ‘next-gen’ version of one of my favourite PS2… Read more

You'll have to look past a lot of bugs and glitches.

Bully is one of the most entertaining games ever made. Why this is is fairly apparent. It's a Rockstar game that plays like GTA and who better than to rip off GTA than Rockstar themselves? But that's… Read more

Even some problems can't stop a Bully

Bully arrived almost two years ago on Sony's PlayStation 2. At that moment we saw Rockstar could make a game that didn't have guns, car driving, or blood. Bully follows the story of Jimmy Hawkins, a t… Read more

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