August 9th, 2006
Rockstar’s New Game “Bully” Has Angered Parents Before October 2006 Release
By Alice Hill
RealTechNews
From the company that gave you a game where you can literally kick prostitues to death, comes the hotly anticipated “Bully.” Rockstar Games announced today that Bully would be hitting store shelves in October 2006.
First a bit about the game:
The game’s main character is 15-year-old Jimmy Hopkins, who must defend himself against school bullies at a fictional U.S. boarding school called Bullworth Academy, while dealing with characters ranging from nerds and jocks to authoritarian prefects. Weapons included baseball bats that break after several blows, stink bombs and bags of marbles that when strategically thrown will lay flat most pursuers.
Now the controversy already a brewin’:
In March, Florida’s Miami-Dade County School Board called on retailers not to sell the game to minors and required the school district to warn parents about potentially harmful effects of playing violent video games. In a recent demonstration of “Bully”, which Rockstar said has not yet been rated, the fighting scenes did not include blood or result in the death of characters. Source: Reuters
We Say: What else? Can’t wait till October! Seriously, after the Hot Coffee scandal, you can bet that Bully will be a much tamer game than was originally planned. Not quite as tame as the Table Tennis game Rockstar also announced not long ago for the Xbox 360, but definitely no Columbine gore.
jerry says:
What I love is that everyone brings up kicking prostitutes to death, but kicking the nice lady walking down the street to death is cool. You kill lots of people in the game, just like lots of games. Why is killing prostitutes any more heinous than killing anyone else?
Anyway, how else would I get my money back?
I love being the bad guy in games, then I can be nice in real life.
August 10th, 2006 at 11:45 am
Alice says:
I have personally kicked everyone in the game to death - prostitutes, old ladies, old men, young people. What can I say?
August 10th, 2006 at 10:01 pm
Lockergnome's Game Invasion says:
Rockstar’s New Game “Bully” Has Angered Parents Before October 2006 Release
Alice Hill of RealTechNews writes: From the company that gave you a game where you can literally kick prostitutes to death comes the hotly anticipated “Bully.” Rockstar Games announced today that Bully would be hitting store shelves in October 2006….
August 11th, 2006 at 1:48 pm
MATTHEW WILDSMITH says:
TO ROCKSTARS GAMES IS BULLY CUMING OUT OR NOT IM LOOKING FROWERD TO IT I HOPE ITS COMING OUT IN OCTOBER TIME 2006 IS IT COMING ON DEMO FRST OR NOT I HAVE BEEN WATHING A LONG TIME FOR THE GAME TO COME
September 26th, 2006 at 12:40 pm