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For those of you have missed this game about a malcontented adolescent that Rockstar released for the PS2 in 2006, now is your chance to join all the fun. Bully has now been retrofitted with more classes and missions for both the Wii and Xbox 360 consoles. For those of you who already own the PS2 version, this might be a waste of time since not that much has changed, but, if you have yet to experience the life as a new kid at Bullworth academy, then this game is worth picking up.

 

In Bully: Scholarship Edition, you play as Jimmy, cocky new arrival to the Bullworth academy. Your mission is to survive the new school and carve out a niche for yourself amongst the various cliques and clichés that seem to inhabit all schools. The game is a free roaming sand box style of game much along the same lines of Rockstar’s other popular games. You are free to go to biology class and participate in dissecting frogs, or show up for gym and play some dodgeball, or, you can just simply roam around and give nerds wedgies. . Completing missions is essential to opening up more areas of the game and unlocking different features, but feel free to play hooky all you want and explore. Just keep an out for “the man”who will be trying to put the kibosh on all of your shenanigans.

 

Bully has been done up in the  sardonic style that Rockstar has a reputation for, yet the main story is just as involved as it is humorous. The game is loaded with funny and, often times, painfully realistic situations that we have all gone through during those good old schooldays. The voice acting is superb and the clichéd one-liners come off as hilarious. Jimmy is a great antihero who acts cocky yet possesses a bit of a heart. He is the type of guy that the ladies just want to try to reform and the downtrodden want on their side. .   Although the main story line can be completed in about ten hours of play, the world of Bully is vast and widespread and it will take hours to explore every nook and cranny of Bullworth Academy and the surrounding countryside.

 

Included in the Scholarship edition are eight new missions for Jimmy to undertake. Most of these are centered on helping a drunken Santa. There are also four new classes available, upping the grand total to ten. Another new thing included in the scholarship edition is the addition of a few two-player minigames that allows you to take on a friend in a round of Consumo or geography  if you dare. These little minigames are a good distraction and tie in nicely to the new add-ons, but they really do not add to the overall game experience.

 

Besides a few more missions Bully for the Wii also does its best to utilize the motion sensor controls in a few of the games and classes. Most of these experiences make for a good time, yet some of them, like the boxing matches, can end up being a bit tedious to get through. Sporting new Mac Doc software, the scholarship edition also sports slightly better graphics than the PS2 version although the next generation feel is still not there The Wii version also does not seem to suffer from  the various bugs that users have been reporting in the Xbox 360 version of Bully.

 

While owners of the PS2 version of Bully may still want to wait for a true sequel to come out, Bully: Scholarship Edition cannot not be called just a mere port of the original.