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| From: Rockstar
Category: Video Games
List Price: £39.99
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Rating:  68 reviews
Sales Rank: 1751
Platform: Playstation2
Genre: action-games
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Number Of Items: 1
Age: 11 - 18 years
Operating System: Playstation 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5026555304801
ASIN: B0009RWHZU
Release Date: October 25, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Amazon.co.uk Review:
In a nutshell:
The game previously known as Bully is Rockstar's most controversial title yet - despite the fact that almost everything that's been written about it in the tabloids is wrong. You play the bullied not the bully in a cleverly observed pastiche of school life. The lowdown:
Although this bares comparison to both Grand Theft Auto (in terms of the large freeform world and highly interactive environments) and The Warriors (the combat system is nearly identical) this is very different to Rockstar's other games. Although you are supposed to attended lessons each day (doing well gives you new abilities and items) you're free to explore Bulworth Academy at leisure with a wide range of missions from raiding the girl's dormitory and fetching transistors for the local tramp to protecting nerds from bullies. In fact that the whole game is about surviving the school experience and making friends and ironically has a far more moral point to make than any of Rockstar's previous titles. Most exciting moment:
Although you can get into fist fights with other students there's never any blood shed, just the odd pulled ear or Chinese burn. There are plenty of other school yard pranks you can pull of though with the judicious use of catapults, stink bombs and cherry bombs. You can also make out with girls (or boys if you so desire) if you can find a way to get on their good side. Since you ask:
There have been numerous calls for the game to be banned in both the U.S. and UK, although tellingly all such calls were made long before the game was even previewed and were based solely on the name. The final product is only rated 15+ and features only mild amounts of violence. The bottom line:
One of the most original games for years and far more wholesome than its reputation suggests.-HARRISON DENT
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| Customer Reviews: Read 10 more reviews...
 Nostalgic and engrossing July 6, 2007
Stevie G (Manchester, England)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
With the exception of the GTA series, this is Rockstars finest work to date. There is simply no other game available which has such a unique atmosphere. The havoc you can wreak created a lot of nostalgic memories for me from my childhood.
The actual school lessons are surprisingly varied. They range from a Pac Man style mini game for Art, to QTE style button prompts for Chemistry and Shop. Whats best about these lessons is the fact that once completed, they give you increased skills. For example, once English lessons have been completed, Jimmy will be more able to talk himself out of trouble.
The missions still suffer from being little more than either fetch quests, or simply require you to travel from point A to B, then to C. But the story that sets up each mission is always watchable, humourous, and develops the story in a way that you actually care what happens next, which is rare for me.
I am playing this game on my PS3 due to a severe lack of games available for the system. I have been playing this for close to 4 weeks now and havent touched a PS3 game since. Surely this is proof that it is one of the most engrossing and enjoyable games available on any format.
A* December 3, 2006
Shazzeth
36 out of 41 found this review helpful
This is a fantastic game, although I admit that I was very wary of it at first. I'd seen trailers advertising it showing excessive bullying and the likes and didn't think it looked any good. My brother then bought it (much to my disgust) and yes...I got hooked. I made a game about 2 weeks ago now and have been steadily working through the world of Jimmy Hopkins - a young trouble maker that has been expelled from 7 schools only to end up at Bullworth Academy. Once at the school you have to begin earning respect from all of the peer groups - nerds, jocks, greasers, townies, and preppies. Doing this involves a hell of a lot of different missions, ranging from spraying graffiti over greaser town (New Coventry), shooting jocks using your slingshot, and stealing items back from people such as homework, diaries and the likes. As well as the respect challenges you also work through a range of tasks to gain money. These are usually of a comical nature; for example stuffing students into lockers, but also practical tasks like finding someones dog.
Whilst you begin to form friendships and respect amongst your classmates you start attending lessons. The curriculum at Bullworth includes English, Art, Photography, Chemistry, Shop and Gym. Each subject has 5 levels to master and once complete you can use the skills learnt in your every day life; gym for example teaches a mixture of wrestling and dodgeball which increases accuracy and teaches moves to beat people up with, whereas english gives you the ability to chat up and later kiss girls to unlock health bonuses.
As you progress through your lessons and complete tasks for friends, teachers and citizens you will be faced with new challenges allowing you to open up new areas of the vast map. Within the map are shops, barbers and the likes along with heaps more challenges for you to complete.
Overall this is a wicked game and so much better than I first expected. I find myself getting addicted to it and playing for hours on end. What I also like is the fact that you are allowed to fashion Jimmy exactly how you like; so he starts out as a skin headed chav but I personally have no made him into a rather sexy punk rocker/skater. There's loads to explore in this game and an enormous storyline with a few laughs thrown in as well. If you like other games by Rockstar, I'd highly recommend checking this out. 10/10
Canis Canem Edit...Dog Eat Dog in Latin, apparently November 16, 2006
David Kitchen (Cannock, Staffordshire, United Kingdom)
15 out of 17 found this review helpful
When all the controversy blew up over 'Bully' I'd love to have been in Rockstar Vancouver's marketing department. All they did was release the title and a few Daily Mail-baiting details and their job was done for them. Anyway, onto the game. It's really great fun, it's what your school days were like in rose-tinted retrospect-o-vision but in reality you spent all lunch time in the library. There isn't any real violence, no guns, just the cunning and imagination of a "problem child". It's full of pranks, girls, and playing the stereotypical cliques of American High School social hierarchy off against one another. A really enjoyable, original and funny game. My only criticism is that the game loses focus in it's latter stages, and is short. A solid weekend of gaming will see you complete it, and replay value isn't great but it's a refreshingm title after a year of unimaginative sequels and re-releases.
Canis canem edit-dog eat dog-bully-\BRILLIANT August 2, 2007
Steven Roatch Russell (Silent Planet)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Looking for an addictive game packed with action? CANIS CANEM EDIT IS HERE
I have only just completed this game! It took me months! (about 3 overall) Yet, still i do not stop playing it!!!
It is a surprisingly well structured and exciting game which will never lose its fun!!!
The game is a game of choices: You can attend your lessons and try to get good grades, or you can skive off them and explore the city of bullworth and your school and aquire objects, speak to people, make friends, collect items, start missions, take part in races and challenges and earn money which you can use to buy clothes and get haircuts which can change that chav you start out as into whatever you want...eg: punk, grunger, goth, greaser, townie, nerd, preppie, jock...etc!
There is so much to do! This game is almost perfect! except for one minor thing.....................................................................you pass out at 1/2 past 2 unless you go to sleep!
As Jimmy Hopkins, you have many abilities which include:
fighting moves (kicking, punching, grabbing, shoving), insults and verbal abuse, bullying techniques (stuffing pupils heads into toilets and flushing them, throwing pupils into bins, locking them into lockers, spitting on ones hand and wiping it on a pupils face)...etc!!! etc!!!
There are loads of others which you can find out for yourself, if you have this game!
Throughout the games, either from missions, lessons or challenges or just collecting, you will aquire many items and weapons such as:
Spud gun, bottle rocket gun, slingshot 1 and 2, rubberband ball, camera black and white, camera panoramic, stink bombs, itching powder...and many others!!!
Just because you have all these abilities and weapons, it doesn't neccessarily mean that you have to be a bully. In this game you can protect the victims of bullying and basically...bully the bullies!
Or you an stay out of trouble completely by just ride around the town on one of your bmxs, skateboards or your mopeds! Altenatively, get a job or
help out other people or even take photos!
Other problems of the game are:
Prefects, police, teachers and adults can get you busted easily if you've been very bad. When you get busted, apart from your skateboard, slingshot, rubber band ball, and camera all your weapons get confiscated!
A few more things; From challenges,, you will unlock other sleeping and saving locations so you don't just have to go in your dormitary.
And you can go into shops, go to the barbers and enter some buildings in this game and you can get friens, enemies and...tattoos!
FASCINATINGLY FANTASTICALLY SUPERBLY AMAZINGLY BRILLIANTLY GREAT GAME!!!
Fun for anyone, no matter what genre of game they like!!!
An almost perfect buy! 9.99/10
Thanks for reading my review, I hope you found it helpful.
Steven Roatch Russell
Ignore the whining MPs, this is great October 30, 2006
Iain Macintosh (London)
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
There are some MPs who live for moments like the release of this game. Shunted from ivory tower to ivory tower, pausing only to gorge on another tax-payer funded free lunch, they can always be counted on to lift their snouts from the trough and get involved in something they know nothing about.
Canis Canem Edit was roundly pilloried by the usual suspects who claimed that it glorified bullying and would cause the youth of Britain to turn on each other like animals. If these MPs had played the game, they'd realise how stupid they sounded.
Like the GTA Series, this game is set in a free-flowing environment where you can take any path you choose. Yes, you can choose to relentlessly bully other pupils, but it won't necessarily help you. You can choose to make Mario jump off cliffs in Mario Brothers, but The Samaritans are yet to stick their oar in and accuse Nintendo of encouraging the mass suicide of immigrant Italians.
This game is an absolute joy to play and, helpfully, the controls are very similar to GTA. There's the usual tutorial style of early levels to guide you through game concepts and then you're free to progress as you see fit. Every day is made up of a couple of lessons where you play mini-games to pass and unlock new skills. Succeed in English and you'll become more articulate. Pass PE challenges to learn new fighting moves.
It's very similar to an old Spectrum game called Skool Daze, and it also feels like another Spectrum classic, The Great Escape. The school grounds are patrolled by Prefects who punish indiscretions by dragging you to the Head's Office. Get in trouble too many times and you'll find yourself in detention, carrying out menial chores.
The free nature of the game means that you can choose to be a good pupil, a bad pupil, a solitary skiver, a vindictive bully, anything you like. What the MPs fail to realise is that if you play the game purely as an opportunity to 'virtually' bully, you won't actually get very far.
Once again, Rockstar have created a classic. Every facet of this game smacks of a company who refuse to take shortcuts. Arcade machines in dormitories have fully working, addictive minigames. You can bet money with weird kids who challenge you to knock them out with a football. You can climb trees and aim catapult pellets at 'school jocks' while keeping an eye out for Prefects.
You'll be playing this game for months, so it's a great one to get in advance of Xmas. Don't listen to the MPs and don't panic; this game is not going to bring about the collapse of Western Civilisation. It will keep you amused on cold, wet evenings though.
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