Bully: Scholarship Edition | 
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| From: Rockstar Games
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $26.75
You Save: $3.24 (11%)
New (34) Used (9) from $19.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 666
Platform: Xbox 360
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Edition: Scholarship
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Xbox 360
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
Condition: This game is brand new in original packaging. This game was given to us as a gift but my son already has it. I will ship immediately.
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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 10 more reviews...
 A Very Entertaining But Brutal Look Back At The School Years July 4, 2008
I like some other reviewers have never played the Grand Theft Auto games so didn't know what to really expect. The game surprised me with both the area you can explore and what you're allowed to do with your character. The people you fight aren't killed but just beaten up I liked how if you hurt them enough but didn't give the finishing blow but taunted them was very funny but also a little unnerving when you remember high school almost like this. The video graphics aren't as great as I've seen with other Xbox 360 games but again like another reviewer said this was remade from an earlier gen console system and no matter what the graphics can only be done so far without having to rework the whole game over from scratch. I do feel though that the game was meant more for adults as the reason for me is as adults we can look back at those school years and kind of laugh off what happen for the most part but for the kids still having to deal with high school life or Jr.high it's still a little rough
and I know from personal experience that sometimes you wanted to forget the day at school and what you had to look forward to the next day. That said I still say this is a fun game for adults and the price is very reasonable so give the game a chance...
Fun Lighthearted Game June 25, 2008
It's a Rockstar title but it's well executed with appropriate themes for the plot and setting. It's lighthearted, no blood or gore, just light teen humor. The missions are relatively short, making it easy to play in segments. The only bad thing about the game is the parts where it freezes and hiccups.
I thought it was pretty entertaining June 22, 2008
I've never played any of the Grand Theft Auto games that this game is apparently modeled after, so I may be a little more impressed by this game just because i've never played a similar game. That being said, this game has great characters, interesting challenges, and a lot of stuff to keep your attention for many hours. There is a large universe for Jimmy, the main character, to navigate including the school where Jimmy attends and an extensive city map beyond the school for Jimmy to explore.
The voice work is very good, and gives the campus bullies and teachers a very realistic feel. The story is also pretty good, because it advances Jimmy from being a hated new kid at school, to one that gains respect of the varioius bully factions on campus. I also enjoyed some of the other tasks you can accomplish, like collecting rubberbands or game cards or destroying gnomes throughout the city.
The only reason I'm giving this game 4 stars instead of 5 is because it froze up about 5 or 10 times during the course of playing it. However, for me, that wasn't enough to make the game not worth playing.
Great Game! June 20, 2008
I love this game it has the humor, and feel of your typical highschool clicks, but this time you can just kick the crap out that person who is just pissin you off unlike school. Great game play with all the current patches and fixes that other's gripped about cuz they could not connect to the internet on their xbox. Anyways love this game alot overall on Act 3 right now. Just overall fun try it you will like it once you get past the first act.
Update: Finished 100% and still playing this game ROCKS!!!
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!!!
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